The Limits of Syntactic Variation

• Preface & Acknowledgements | p. vii
• Introduction | pp. 7–72
• I. The locus of (parametric) variation
• Parametric versus functional explanations of syntactic universals
  Martin Haspelmath | pp. 75–107
• Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics
  Chiara Gianollo, Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi | pp. 109–142
• On the syntactic flexibility of formal features
  Hedde Zeijlstra | pp. 143–173
• Expletives, datives, and the tension between morphology and syntax
  Richard S. Kayne | pp. 175–217
• Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a universal semantics
  Gillian Ramchand and Peter Svenonius | pp. 219–245
• Aspect matters in the middle
  Marika Lekakou | pp. 247–294
• II. A classic parameter revisited: the null-subject parameter
• The null subject parameter and correlating properties: The case of Creole languages
  Marco Nicolis | pp. 271–294
• The Case-F valuation parameter in Romance
  Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro | pp. 295–310
• Silent arguments without pro: The case of Basque
  Maia Duguine | pp. 311–329
• Case morphology and radical pro-drop
  Ad Neeleman and Kriszta Szendröi | pp. 331–348
• III. Parametric clustering
• The macroparameter in a microparametric world
  Mark C. Baker | pp. 351–373
• Topic prominence and null subjects
  Marcello Modesto | pp. 375–409
• Non-configurationality: Free word order and argument drop in Turkish
  Balkız Öztürk | pp. 411–440
• Diachronic stability and feature interpretability
  E. Phoevos Panagiotidis | pp. 441–456
• III. The acquisition of parameters
• Can children tell us anything we did not know about parameter clustering?
  Larisa Avram and Martine Coene | pp. 459–482
• Parameter setting and input reduction
  Arnold Ernest Evers and Jacqueline van Kampen | pp. 483–515
• Index | pp. 517–521

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