• Introduction



• Part I. Foundational issues: Principles, primitives, and explanations in generative grammar



• 1: Noam Chomsky: Genuine explanation



• 2: Gennaro Chierchia: Four types of quantifiers at the interface between syntax and logic



• 3: Giorgio Graffi and Alessandro Riolfi: The explanatory power of the subjacency principle



• 4: Ian Roberts: The Strict Cycle Condition: 'One cycle to rule them all'



• 5: Richard S. Kayne: A more demanding approach to suppletion



• 6: Adriana Belletti: Truncation vs reduction in development



• Part II. Comparative perspectives on the functional structure of the clause



• 7: M. Rita Manzini and Anna Roussou: Recategorizing C



• 8: Mamoru Saito: Wh-phrases as genuine focus operators



• 9: Dominique Sportiche: Some (but not all) movement types systematically violate islands



• 10: Ronit Szterman and Naama Friedmann: Comprehension and production of sentences with V-C movement in orally-trained children with hearing impairment



• 11: Benedetta Baldi and Leonardo M. Savoia: Micro-variation in imperatives: Enclisis and mesoclisis in Italian and ArbÃ'resh varieties



• 12: Paola Benincà and Guglielmo Cinque: The syntax of Romance clitics and selective clitic climbing



• 13: Andrea Calabrese: The Latin passive morpheme /-r/ and its morphosyntactic similarity with Romance SI



• 14: Liliane Haegeman and Lieven Danckaert: Subject ellipsis and impersonal pronouns



• 15: Hilda Koopman: Some basic properties of Mandarin resultative clusters: A measure of progress



• 16: Ur Shlonsky: From Bantu subject-object reversal to inverted copular sentences: How "low" focalization and smuggling circumvent Relative Minimality violations