Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. List of works (1971–2010) by Jan Koster xi
5. Unaccusative verbs in Chinese 1
6. Gapping is always forward 13
7. Focus particle doubling 21
8. Wh -drop and recoverability 31
9. Two futures in infinitives 41
10. A dynamic perspective on inflection 49
11. Is there “preposition stranding in COMP” in Afrikaans? No way! 57
12. Restructuring verbs and the structure of Spanish clauses 65
13. Cantonese as a tense second language 73
14. On a selective “violation” of the Complex NP Constraint 81
15. Dressed numerals and the structure of Universal Numeric Quantifiers 91
16. Embedded inversion and successive cyclicity 101
17. Little words don’t lie 109
18. Repairing head-to-head movement 125
19. On the duality of patterning 131
20. Reflexive cartography 141
21. What does eye-tracking reveal about children’s knowledge of linguistic structure? 149
22. Depictives and the word orders of English and Dutch 157
23. Feature percolation in the Dutch possessive 167
24. On the interruption of Verb-Raising clusters by nonverbal material 175
25. Referring to yourself in self-talk 185
26. Case-Agreement 193
27. Syntactic predictions in second-language sentence processing 207
28. Notes on French and English demonstratives 215
29. The accusative infinitive in Latin, English and Dutch 229
30. Identifying in Dutch 239
31. What you (and God) only know 249
32. Is agreement resolution part of core grammar? 257
33. On Dutch allemaal and West Ulster English all 267
34. The universality of binding principles 277
35. Grappling with graft 289
36. Game Theory and the control of empty categories in grammar 299
37. Copy what? 313
38. Free relatives at the interface 321
39. Menace under the microscope 329
40. Case-alignment and verb placement 341
41. Diminutive Ks?: A discussion of some Russian data 347
42. Don’t forget the determiners, Jan 353
43. Empty subjects and empty objects 359
44. Island Fever 367
45. Something else on variables in syntax 375
46. Language index 385
47. Name index 387
48. Subject index 391