Introduction by the editors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction by the editors 1
4. Part I. Empirical perspective
5. Constraints on intra- and extraposition 63
6. Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition 99
7. Constraints on relative clause extraposition in English 145
8. Part II. The Minimalist Perspective
9. Rightward movement, EPP and specifiers 175
10. Neglected cases of rightward movement 211
11. Rightward movement from a different perspective 243
12. Cumulative rightward processes 281
13. Part III. Other Theoretical Perspectives
14. A dynamic perspective on left-right asymmetries 321
15. On the locality of complement clause and relative clause extraposition 369
16. Part IV. The Prosodic Perspective
17. Extraposition of defocused and light PPs in English 399
18. Prosodic constraints on extraposition in German 439
19. Index 473