Quirky alternations of transitivity : the case of ingestive predicates / Mengistu Amberber -- Explaining clitic variation in Spanish / José Camacho and Liliana Sánchez -- Slavic passives, Bantu passives, and human cognition / Peter F. Kipka -- The split VP hypothesis : evidence from language acquisition / Masatoshi Koizumi -- Syntactic constraints in a "free word order" language / Mary Laughren -- On the range and variety of cases assigned by adpositions / Alan R. Libert -- Optimality and three western Austronesian case systems / Anna Maclachlan -- Affixes, clitics, and Bantu morphosyntax / Sam Mchombo -- Two types of Wh-in-situ / Masanori Nakamura -- Vowel place contrasts / Keren Rice.