Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction: UG and External Systems vii
4. Language
5. Depictives 3
6. On two issues related to the clitic clusters in Romance languages 27
7. On the question of (non)-agreement in the uses of Russian imperatives 55
8. Computational puzzles of conditional clause preposing 73
9. Clefts and tense asymmetries 95
10. Generating configurational asymmetries in prosodic phonology 128
11. Brain
12. Language learnability and the forms of recursion 155
13. The autonomous contribution of syntax and pragmatics to the acquisition of the Hebrew definite article 171
14. D(iscourse)-Linking and question formation 185
15. Evidence from ASL and ÖGS for asymmetries in UG 193
16. Acquisition of phonological empty categories 213
17. Prosodic cues during online processing of speech 223
18. Computation
19. Morpho-syntax parsing 247
20. A Minimalist implementation of Hale-Keyser incorporation theory 269
21. Minimalist languages and the correct prefix property 289
22. Computation with probes and goals 311
23. Deep & shallow linguistically based parsing 335
24. Towards a quantitative theory of variability 375
25. Index 389