The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory

Introduction.

Part I: Derivation Versus Representation:.

1. Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University).

2. Economy Conditions in Syntax: Chris Collins (Cornell University).

3. Derivation and Representation in Modern Transformational Syntax: Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut).

4. Relativized Minimality Effects: Luigi Rizzi (Université de Geneve).

Part II: Movement:.

5. Head Movement: Ian Roberts (University of Stuttgart).

6. Object Shift and Scrambling: Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland).

7. Wh-in-situ Languages: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo).

8. A-Movements: Mark Baltin (New York University).

Part III: Argument Structure and Phrase Structure:.

9. Thematic Relations in Syntax: Jeffrey S. Gruber (independent scholar).

10. Predication: John Bowers (Cornell University).

11. Case: Hiroyuki Ura.

12. Phrase Structure: Naoki Fukui (University of California).

13. The Natures of Nonconfigurationality: Mark C. Baker (McGill University).

14. What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, but not Why: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).

Part IV: Functional Projections:.

15. Agreement Projections: Adriana Belletti (Universitá di Siena).

16. Sentential Negation: Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University).

17. The DP Hypothesis: Identifying Clausal Properties in the Nominal Domain: Judy B. Bernstein (Syracuse University).

18. The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters and Problems: Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste).

Part V: Interface With Interpretation:.

19. The Syntax of Scope: Anna Szabolcsi (New York University).

20. Deconstructing Binding: Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert (both Utrecht Institute of Linguistics).

21. Syntactic Reconstruction Effects: Andrew Barss (University of Arizona).

Part VI: External Evaluation of Syntax:.

22. Syntactic Change: Anthony S. Kroch (University of Pennsylvania).

23. Setting Syntactic Parameters: Janet Dean Fodor (City University of New York).

Bibliography.

Index.