Why is syntax complicated?

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement viii
4. Introduction ix
5. A tribute to Gerald Sanders 1
6. I. Typological issues
7. The second persons is rightly so called 9
8. The structure of category systems 25
9. On the natural domain of linguistic universals 45
10. II. Syntactic issues
11. Why is syntax complicated? 73
12. What is categorical grammar really good for? 93
13. The logic of relative adjectives 105
14. On the subject-predicate structure of pseudoclefts 119
15. Neagtion and predicate heads 135
16. Iconicity 153
17. Hypothesizing case frame information for new verbs 175
18. Local ambiguity and natural language processing 187
19. III. Discourse issues
20. Constructing a courtroom narrative 203
21. Saying it with a smile 215
22. Vera Hayden’s Dilemma, or the Indirection in direct speech 233
23. Anaphora in GErman discourse 243
24. Gender assignment in Oromo 269
25. IV. Phonological issues
26. Underspecification and phonological disorders 287
27. Rule ordering in Child phonology 305
28. Default features in contour tones 327
29. Lexical versus postlexical rule application in Catalan 339
30. Variation in phonological assimilation of Irish Loanwords 351
31. Dialect variation in Sorbian reflexes of the Common Slavic jers 367
32. Subject index 377
33. Language index 381