Summaries of the Individual Contributions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Contributors XI
4. Introduction XIII
5. Summaries of the Individual Contributions XIX
6. PART I: FORM
7. Distinct Diatheses and the Mechanics of Underspecification 3
8. German Reflexives as Proper and Improper Arguments 15
9. The Acquisition of Japanese Word Structure 37
10. Observing Non-Finite Verbs: Some 3V Phenomena in German-Dutch 55
11. A Note on the Pronoun System and the Predicate Marker in Tok Pisin 79
12. Pro-Drop and Impoverishment 93
13. PART II: STRUCTURE
14. A Note on Targets of A’-Movement in the Left Periphery of German Sentences 119
15. Extending Doubling to Non-Local Domains: Complete vs. Partial Copying + Deletion and Related Reconstruction Issues 129
16. On Pure Syntax (Uncontaminated by Information Structure) 137
17. How to Get an Object-es into the German Prefield 159
18. Information Structure and the Left Periphery in Dghwede 187
19. Old Italian Scrambling: The Low Left Periphery of the Clause 209
20. Selective Residual V-2 in Italian Interrogatives 229
21. Impossible Infinitival Interrogatives and Relatives 243
22. Expletive Replacement Reconsidered: Evidence from Expletive Verbs in Japanese 255
23. Agreement and the EPP in Kinyarwanda Applicatives 275
24. PART III: GRAMMAR
25. Modularity and the Tic-Toc of Language 299
26. A Skeptical Note on the Syntax of Speech Acts and Point of View 313
27. The First Traces of Language. On Darwin's Package Hypothesis 323
28. Comprehensibility in Forensic Linguistics - New Perspectives for Frame Semantics 337
29. Not Only I: Notes on the Syntax of Focus Binding 353
30. Conceptualizing Sentence Mood – Two Decades Later 367
31. The Values of Semantics 383
32. List of Publications 399
33. List of Supervised Dissertations 407