UG and External Systems -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- UG and external systems -- Introduction -- Language -- Brain -- Computation -- References -- I. Language -- Depictives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two classes of depictives -- 3. Previous analyses -- 4. Our proposal -- 5. Direct and indirect secondary predication -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- On two issues related to the clitic clusters in Romance languages -- 1. Goal -- 2. Clitic clusters -- 3. Issues and ways to deal with them -- 4. Language variation -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Prosodic cues during online processing of speech -- Introduction -- 1. Overview -- 2. Experiment 1 -- 3. Experiment 2 -- 4. Discussion -- Materials -- Notes -- References -- On the question of (non)-agreement in the uses of Russian imperatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Imperatives as "Defective" vs. full conditionals -- 3. Differences in the features of Russian imperatives -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Computational puzzles of conditional clause preposing -- 1. Ordering restrictions on conditionals with respect to the main clause -- 2. The landing site of conditionals -- 3. On the trigger of conditional clause preposing -- 4. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Clefts and tense asymmetries -- Introduction -- 1. The different types of clefts -- 2. Different accounts of clefts -- 3. Tense restrictions -- 4. Agreement restrictions -- 5. More on clefts and focus -- 6. Towards an analysis -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Generating configurational asymmetries in prosodic phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous analyses of configurational asymmetries -- 3. Analysis: Rhythmic constraints in prosodic constituents -- 4. Summary -- Notes -- References -- II. Brain -- Language learnability and the forms of recursion -- Introduction.

1. The Abstract Clitic Hypothesis -- 2. Cross-linguistic variation: Swedish -- 3. Cross-linguistic variation: French -- 4. Learnability and recursion -- Notes -- References -- The autonomous contribution of syntax and pragmatics to the acquisition of the Hebrew definite article -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The definite system -- 3. The acquisition of definiteness -- 4. The concept of non-shared knowledge and the Theory of Mind -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- D(iscourse)-linking and question formation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Accounts of the subject-object asymmetry -- 3. New experiments -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Evidence from ASL and ÖGS for asymmetries in UG -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence for argument asymmetries -- 3. Evidence for structural asymmetries -- 4. Structural asymmetries: Mixed headedness -- 5. Structural asymmetry: Spreading domains -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Acquisition of phonological empty categories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Earlier studies -- 3. Our findings -- 4. Seeking a solution -- 5. A modified proposal -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- III. Computation -- Morpho-syntax parsing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Asymmetry -- 3. Three parsing models -- 4. Consequences and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- A Minimalist implementation of Hale-Keyser incorporation theory -- 1. The problem of verb subcategorization -- Incorporation theory -- Minimalist operations -- Incorporation -- Implementation Analysis -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- Minimalist languages and the correct prefix property -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Minimalist Grammars -- 3. Context-Free Derivations -- 4. Top-down recognition -- 5. Correct prefix property -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Computation with probes and goals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The lexicon -- 3. Elementary trees -- 4. The Move Box -- 5. Limitations of theMove Box -- 6. Probes and goals -- 7. A preliminary comparison -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Deep & shallow linguistically based parsing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistically-based parsing and linguistic strategies -- 3. Treebank derived structurals relations -- 4. Parser evaluation -- References -- Towards a quantitative theory of variability -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some examples -- 3. Basic constraints -- 4. Variability -- 5. Equilibrium principle -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.