STUDIES ON UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR AND TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Introductory Remarks -- 2. The Role of Directionality -- 3. Levels of Representation -- 4. Movement Dependencies -- 5. Features and Clause Structure -- References -- Typological Implications of a Directionality Constraint on Projections -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The XV-VX Parameter -- 3. Structural Invariants -- 4. Implications for Syntactic Typologies -- References -- Universal Grammar and theTypology of Ergative Languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case Marking Typologies in Theoretical Syntax -- 3. Basic Proposal -- 4. Ergative Adposition and Adposition Incorporation -- 6. The Source of the Adposition -- 7. Aux Selection and Split Ergativity -- 8. Problems and Extensions -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Some Properties of Ellipsis in Coordination -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ellipsis vs. Small Conjuncts -- 3. Constraints on Ellipsis -- 4. Non-coordinate Ellipsis -- 5. Backward Deletion -- 6. FWD: Licensing at LF -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Deriving the Parameterisation of the Mapping Hypothesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mapping from Syntax to Interpretation -- 3. The LF Lowering Parameter -- 5. Economy in Derivations -- 6. Deriving the LF-lowering Parameter -- 7. Some Further Consequences -- 8. A Difficulty with Existentials -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Syntactic Dependencies and their Properties: Weak Islands -- 1. Locality, Dependencies and Full Interpretation -- 2. Polarity Items -- References -- On Extraction, Argument Bindingand Voice Morphology in Malagasy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbal Morphology and the External Argument -- 3. Argument-binding Property in Complex Structures and Extraction -- 4. On Voice Morphology and Case Assignment.

5. On the Interpretation of Voice and Syntactic Positioning of Arguments -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Universals and Minimalist Features: Checking in AgrO -- 1. Theoretical Background: AgrO and Categorial Features -- 2. French: Categorial D, N and V features and object expletives -- 3. Some Other Romance Languages -- 4. Scandinavian Participles -- 5. Urdu/Hindi Participles and Object Expletives -- 6. O'odham and Hopi Past Participles -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Genitive Subjects and the VSO Order -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genitive Subjects in Berber -- 3. Sentences with Genitive Subjects -- 4. Genitive Subjects, Agreement and the VSO Order -- 5. Nominative Subjects -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Some Properties of Clitics: (with Special Reference to Modern Greek) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typical Clitic Distributions, with their Orders (Slots) -- 3. The Syntactic Representation of Clitics -- 4. Further Explanations -- 5. A Second Nominative Projection? -- 6. The Directionality Issue -- 7. Two Minimality Constraints on Projections -- 8. Clitics and Clause Structure -- Index.