1. Island constraints as evidence for a cognitive theory of grammar -- 1.1. The fundamental issues -- 1.2. Syntactic autonomy: empirical issues -- 1.3. Alternatives to autonomy: functional and cognitive accounts -- 1.4. Attention and extraction -- 1.5. An alternative to strict modularity -- 2. An integrated cognitive theory -- 2.1. Cognitive architecture -- 2.2. Knowledge representation -- 2.3. Storage and retrieval from declarative memory -- 2.4. Productions, relevance, and the matching process -- 2.5. Categorization and polysemy: a case study -- 3. The Spatialization of Form Hypothesis -- 3.1. The cognitive grounding of syntactic knowledge -- 3.2. Grammatical projections of the link schema -- 3.3. Linkage, immediate constituency, and grammatical relations -- 3.4. Hierarchical structure -- 3.5. Constituency and accessibility: the concepts of c-command and government -- 4. Applications of the theory to English syntax -- 4.1. Declarative memory for syntax -- 4.2. Interactions among schemata -- 4.3. The syntactic function of productions -- 4.4. More prototype effects: 'believe'- and 'want'-class verbs -- 5. Attention and grammar -- 5.1. Topic and focus potential -- 5.2. Entrenchment hierarchies -- 5.3. The Silverstein Hierarchy as an entrenchment hierarchy -- 5.4. Further evidence: viewpoint and reflexivization -- 5.5. Further evidence: ease of acquisition -- 5.6. Further evidence: directionality of metaphoric transfer -- 5.7. Other entrenchment hierarchies -- 5.8. Island constraints again -- 6. Neurological implications of the theory -- 6.1. Background -- 6.2. Neurological implications: the Parietal Hypothesis -- 6.3. Aphasia and the Parietal Hypothesis -- 6.4. Further implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.