Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Phrasal and clausal architecture 1
4. Restructuring and clausal architecture in Kannada 8
5. The position of adverbials 25
6. Bare, generic, mass, and referential Arabic DPs 40
7. The possessor raising construction and the interpretation of subject 66
8. Syntactic labels and their derivations 93
9. Separating “Focus Movement” from Focus 108
10. In search for Phases 146
11. Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian 167
12. Structure preservingness, internal Merge, and the strict locality of triads 188
13. Using description to teach (about) prescription 206
14. ‘More complicated and hence, rarer’ 221
15. Prescriptive grammar 243
16. The syntax of valuation and the interpretability of features 262
17. Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in L2 acquisition? 295
18. Minimalism vs. organic syntax 319
19. Location and locality 339
20. Conceptual space 365
21. ‘Adjunct theta-roles’ and the configurational determination of roles 396
22. Author index 412
23. Subject index 417