Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. VP movement vs Head-movement
8. What fronts? 9
9. Coordination and constituency in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish) 31
10. Two derivations of VSO 65
11. Force first 91
12. V1 and wh- questions 107
13. Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages 135
14. A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax 155
15. Seediq 175
16. VP-internal structure in a VOS language 203
17. Part II. Categories, Information Structure, and Prosodic factors
18. Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate-fronting in Niuean 227
19. Word order without syntactic categories 243
20. Nominal properties of vPs in Breton 265
21. On the parallelism of DPs and clauses 281
22. Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog 303
23. The syntax of Chalcatongo Mixtec 341
24. Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language 367
25. References 403
26. Index 427