Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I Theory of language
5. On the origins of phrase structure 2
6. The Strong Minimalist Thesis and the science of language 20
7. Autism and language modularity 36
8. Part II Theory of grammar
9. Exceptional case-marking reconsidered 56
10. Postsyntactic morphology and the syntax of verb clusters 76
11. Mind your Ps and Ks! 111
12. Idiomatic each 135
13. Binding conditions and point of view 142
14. Children’s sluices 170
15. Metalinguistic ellipsis 199
16. Part III Theory of categories
17. Ensuring atomicity with distributive share markers 220
18. Crosslinguistic variation in constituent negation 249
19. Modal comparisons across individuals require (a notion of) relative intensities 282
20. Habitual be in American English 300
21. The phrase structure of temporal interpretation 327
22. Author index 361
23. Subject index 367