Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Finiteness: underlying relations
5. Finiteness and Pseudofiniteness 47
6. The Split T Analysis 79
7. Universals and variation 93
8. Finiteness, inflection, and the syntax your morphology can afford 121
9. Part II: Morphosyntactic exponents of (non-)finiteness
10. Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness 171
11. Non-finiteness in Saamáka 189
12. Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish 211
13. Part III: Finiteness in language acquisition
14. Word order and finiteness in acquisition 257
15. The influence of phonological factors on the expression of finiteness by children learning Dutch as their first and second language 287
16. Contradictory parameter settings in one mind 309
17. Index 343