Preface & Acknowledgements

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface & Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. The locus of (parametric) variation
6. Parametric versus functional explanations of syntactic universals 75
7. Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics 109
8. On the syntactic flexibility of formal features 143
9. Expletives, datives, and the tension between morphology and syntax 175
10. Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a universal semantics 219
11. Aspect matters in the middle 247
12. II. A classic parameter revisited: the null-subject parameter
13. The null subject parameter and correlating properties: The case of Creole languages 271
14. The Case-F valuation parameter in Romance 295
15. Silent arguments without pro : The case of Basque 311
16. Case morphology and radical pro -drop 331
17. III. Parametric clustering
18. The macroparameter in a microparametric world 351
19. Topic prominence and null subjects 375
20. Non-configurationality: Free word order and argument drop in Turkish 411
21. Diachronic stability and feature interpretability 441
22. III. The acquisition of parameters
23. Can children tell us anything we did not know about parameter clustering? 459
24. Parameter setting and input reduction 483
25. Index 517