Grant Goodall is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Language Program and the Experimental Syntax Lab at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Five themes in the study of syntax

Part 1: Three-dimensional syntax

1 Coordination

2 Case, clitics, and lexical NP's in Romance causatives

3 Wanna-contraction as restructuring

Part 2: Syntax and argument structure

4 Evidence for an asymmetry in argument structure

5 X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar

6 On case and the passive morpheme

7 ¿-alignment and the by-phrase

8 Accusative case in passives

9 Passives and arbitrary plural subjects in Spanish

Part 3: The syntax of subjects and wh-dependencies

10 On the status of SPEC of IP

11 The EPP in Spanish

12 Inversion in wh-questions in child Romance and child English

13 Experimenting with wh-movement in Spanish

14 Syntactic satiation and the inversion effect in English and Spanish wh-questions

Part 4: Constraints on wh-dependencies

15 Age-related effects on constraints on wh-movement

16 Is magnitude estimation worth the trouble?

17 The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islands

18 Referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies

19 D-linking, non-finiteness, and cross-linguistic variation in island phenomena