Studies in Generative Grammar 119 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Phonology -- Morpho-syntax -- Syntax -- General -- References -- Part I - Phonology -- Contrastiveness: The basis of identity avoidance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The OCP and prosodic domains -- 3. Segmental structure with elements -- 3.1. The elements -- 3.2. Segmental structure -- 3.3. Prosodic structure -- 4. Prosodic demarcation: the distribution of headed elements -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Rhyme as phonological multidominance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The representation of reduplication -- 3. Rhyme as multidominance -- 4. Correspondence theory and loops -- 5. Imperfect rhyme -- 6. The invisibility of coronals -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Babbling, intrinsic input and the statistics of identical transvocalic consonants in English monosyllables: Echoes of the Big Bang? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and analysis -- 2.1. Data relationships -- 2.2. Identity: observed values relative to expectations based on chance -- 2.3. Identity: observed values relative to expectations based on similarityavoidance -- 3. Towards an explanation: intermodal memory traces formed during protophonation -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Identity avoidance in the onset -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributional asymmetries -- 3. Redundancy-free representations -- 4. Onset as a categorically unary component -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II - Morpho-Syntax -- Unifying minimality and the OCP: Local anti-identity as economy -- 1. Minimality, the OCP and their repairs -- 2. The data -- 2.1. Double-l (and the PCC) -- 2.2. Negative imperatives -- 2.3. Negative Concord -- 3. Double-l -- 4. Double-n -- 5. Negative imperatives -- 6. Concluding remarks.

References -- Semantic versus syntactic agreement in anaphora: The role of identity avoidance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identity avoidance -- 3. Agreement and identity avoidance -- 4. Strong versus weak pronouns -- 5. Pronouns and gender -- 6. Strong pronouns and semantic agreement -- 6.1. Masculine and feminine pronouns -- 6.2. Neuter pronouns -- 6.3. Dat as the strong counterpart of weak het/t -- 7. A potential extension to Binding Theory -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III - Syntax -- Exploring the limitations of identity effects in syntax -- 1. Introduction -- (2) Adjacent identical tones are disallowed. -- 2. The subject in situ generalization -- 2.1. Formulating the subject in situ generalization -- 2.2. The mechanics of the SSG -- 3. Distinctness -- 3.1. Formulating Distinctness -- 3.2. The mechanics of Distinctness -- 3.2.1. DP internal arguments: adding structure -- 3.2.2. Construct state: deleting structure -- 3.2.3. Differential object marking: ban on multiple a marking: movement -- 4. Distinctness vs. the SSG -- 4.1. DP vs. AP internal syntax -- 4.2. Which features count for Distinctness? -- 4.3. Object movement in linker constructions -- 5. The division of labor between Distinctness and the SSG -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Constraining Doubling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. *no no -- 2.1. Part One -- 2.2. Part Two -- 3. *to to -- 4. *kaka -- 4.1. Disjunctive coordination -- 4.2. Disjunction and Q-complementizer -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Recoverability of deletion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Andrews Amalgams -- 3. Sluicing -- Acknowledgements -- References -- On the loss of identity and emergence of order: Symmetry breaking in linguistic theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. (Broken) Symmetry in Linguistic Patterns -- 2.1. Generalized Mirror Principle -- 2.2. X-bar theory: ripples of syntax.

3. Underlying symmetry in syntax -- 3.1. Symmetry of syntactic relations: parallelisms in syntax -- 3.2. The paradox of nominal syntax and merge-markers -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Part IV - General -- Linguistic and non-linguistic identity effects: Same or different? -- 1. Introduction: identity in different modes, and in different species -- 1.1. Non-human species -- 1.2. Cross-modal identity in humans -- 2. Human language -- 2.1. Presence of identity -- 2.1.1. Paralinguistic uses of identity -- 2.1.2. Grammatical uses of identity -- 3. Avoidance of identity -- 3.1. Paralinguistic uses of identity -- 3.2. Echo-words: close but not too close -- 3.3. Anti-gemination -- 3.4. Haplology -- 4. Syntactic and semantic interference effects from false or potential identity -- 4.1. SVO to SOV word order: adjacent NP's cause processing problems -- 4.2. Interference in syntactic processing -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- On the biological origins of linguistic identity -- 1. Introduction: types of identity, types of evidence -- 2. Phonological identity classes -- 3. Identity avoidance in phonology -- 4. Reduplication and token identity -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.