Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Structure at the bottom 5
7. Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible 19
8. Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon 41
9. Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas’s meters 67
10. Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams 87
11. Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”; subject preferences given ergativity 115
12. Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic 143
13. Chapter 8. Blackjack! 171
14. Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction 201
15. Chapter 10. On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives 217
16. Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications 237
17. Index 269