Abstract
1. Contributors 2. Acknowledgments 3. Abbreviations 4. Introduction: When verbs come first (by Carnie, Andrew) 5. Part I. VP movement vs Head-movement 6. What fronts?: On the VP-raising account of verb-initial order (by Chung, Sandra) 7. Coordination and constituency in St'at'imcets (Lillooet Salish) (by Davis, Henry) 8. Two derivations of VSO: A comparative study of Niuean and Tongan (by Otsuka, Yuko) 9. Force first: Clause-fronting and clause typing in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec (by Lee, Felicia) 10. V1 and wh-questions: a typology (by Oda, Kenji) 11. Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages (by Bury, Dirk) 12. A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax (by McCloskey, James) 13. Seediq: Antisymmetry and final particles in a Formosan VOS language (by Holmer, Arthur) 14. VP-internal structure in a VOS language (by Travis, Lisa deMena) 15. Part II. Categories, Information Structure, and Prosodic factors 16. Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate-fronting in Niuean (by Massam, Diane) 17. Word order without syntactic categories: How Riau Indonesian does it (by Gil, David) 18. Nominal properties of vPs in Breton: A hypothesis for the typology of VSO languages (by Jouitteau, Melanie) 19. On the parallelism of DPs and clauses: Evidence from Kisongo Maasai (by Koopman, Hilda) 20. Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog: a unified analysis? (by Billings, Loren) 21. The syntax of Chalcatongo Mixtec: Preverbal and postverbal (by Macaulay, Monica) 22. Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language (by Laughren, Mary) 23. References 24. Index
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