Verb First -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- I. VP movement vs. head-movement -- What fronts? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence for a clause-initial VP -- 3. The clause-initial VP as moved constituent -- 3.1. VP raising across an apparent distance -- 3.2. The islandhood of VP -- 4. Remnant VP raising and its motivation -- 5. The motivation for VP raising -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Coordination and constituency in St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: A brief rundown on St'át'imcets -- 2.1. The language and its speakers -- 2.2. Basic morphosyntactic properties -- 2.3. Word order -- 3. VP constituency -- 3.1. Subject-object asymmetries -- 3.2. VP-constituency tests -- 3.3. Interim conclusions -- 4. Coordination: A cautionary tale -- 4.1. VP coordination in St'át'imcets -- 4.2. A further unexpected coordination pattern -- 5. Some remarks on linearization at the right periphery -- 6. Typological implications -- 7. Methodological implications -- Appendix -- Conversion chart from St'át'imcets practical orthography to standard Americanist phonemic script -- Notes -- Two derivations of VSO -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Niuean facts and the predicate fronting analysis -- 3. Tongan facts that are similar to Niuean -- 4. The V-raising analysis and Tongan facts that are different from Niuean -- 4.1. Clitic pronouns and T's EPP feature -- 4.2. Scrambling and T's EPP feature -- 4.3. T's EPP feature in Tongan and Niuean -- 5. Residual word order issues -- 5.1. Intervening adverbs -- 5.2. Non-verbal predicates -- 5.3. PNI-like phenomenon -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Force first -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The case for clausal movement -- 2. Overt clausal movement: Yes/no questions with èee.

2.1. Why not left-branching? Some theoretical problems -- 2.2. Adverb placement as evidence against left branching -- 3. Definite aspect: A case of string-vacuous clausal movement into CP -- 4. A second case of covert clause fronting: Verbs with irrealis aspect marking -- 4.1. Semantic motivation for verb fronting and clause fronting -- 4.2. Why verb fronting of irrealis verbs with subjunctive readings? -- 5. Summary and implications -- Notes -- V1 and wh-questions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Observations and questions -- 3. A typology of V-initial syntax -- 3.1. V-movement languages -- 3.2. VP-movement languages -- 3.3. V-initial typology -- 4. Typology of wh-questions: Extending the Clause Typing Hypothesis -- 4.1. Preliminaries: The Clause Typing Hypothesis (Cheng 1997) -- 4.2. Adding to Cheng (1997): The generalized EPP conjecture -- 5. Consequences: A new way to look at Irish syntax -- 5.1. Examining the properties of Irish -- 5.2. Irish wh-questions -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1. Phrase structure -- 2.2. Clause structure and verb movement -- 3. The proposal -- 3.1. Derived heads require a filled specifier -- 3.2. Verb movement and preverbal particles -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A further step -- 3. The positioning of initial predicates -- Notes -- Seediq -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The facts -- 3. Antisymmetry and VOS -- 3.1. Predicate raising -- 3.2. Predicate-raising and head-finality -- 3.3. VOS and VSO order -- 4. Further correlates -- 4.1. Placement of the interrogative particle -- 4.2. Final particles vs. second position clitics -- 5. Cliticization and verb raising - an apparent problem -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- Notes.

VP-internal structure in a VOS language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Guilfoyle, Hung, and Travis (GHT 1992) -- 2.2. Intraposition -- 2.3. Two types of (VO) languages -- 2.4. Rightward adjunction -- 3. VP ellipsis -- 3.1. Expectations -- 3.2. Data -- 3.3. Account -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- II. Categories, information structure, and prosodic factors -- Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate fronting in Niuean -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Niuean as a predicate-fronting language -- 2. Lexical categories -- 2.1. Lexical categories in Polynesian languages -- 2.2. Approaches to lexical categories -- 2.3. Distribution of lexical categories in Niuean -- 2.4. Morphology and syntax -- 3. Lexical categorial features in Niuean -- 4. Lexical category and predicate fronting -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Word order without syntactic categories -- 1. Introduction: Explaining word order -- 2. Introducing Riau Indonesian -- 3. The grammar of Riau Indonesian -- 3.1. Syntax -- 3.2. Association -- 3.3. Headedness -- 4. How Riau Indonesian manages to look like a verb-initial language -- 5. From Riau Indonesian to universal grammar -- Notes -- Nominal properties of vPs in Breton -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal arguments of DP and vP -- 2.1. Case assignment to object DPs by construct state -- 3. vPs like DPs show Case filter effects -- 3.1. Raising structures, Clitic Left Dislocation and related problems -- 4. vPs bear interpretable underspecified phi-features -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- On the parallelism of DPs and clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Maasai DPs headed by a common noun are relative clauses -- 3. On the expected parallelism of DPs and clauses -- 3.1. Maasai clauses -- 3.2. The complex verb, agreement and the nominative subject -- 3.3. The position of the verbal predicate in the left periphery.

4. Non verbal predication -- 4.1. The mystery of predicate inversion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nonpronominal morphosyntax -- 2.1. An overview of Tagalog morphology -- 2.2. Purported optional ordering -- 3. How clitic pronouns are ordered -- 3.1. The cluster's position within the clause -- 3.2. Pronominal clusters with heterogeneous syllabic count -- 3.3. Pronominal clusters with the same number of syllables -- 4. Optional clisis -- 4.1. Preverbal clusters -- 4.2. Postverbal clusters -- 4.3. Optional nonclisis of pronouns -- 5. Conditions on clitichood in Tagalog -- 5.1. Morphological factors -- 5.2. Lightness and clitichood -- 5.3. What does it mean to be a clitic? -- 6. Speculations about the phrase structure of Tagalog -- 6.1. Empirical gaps -- 6.2. Formalizing the Late-subject tendency -- 6.3. The wider problem of Heavy-shift -- Notes -- The syntax of Chalcatongo Mixtec -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Correlates of VSO word order -- 2.1. Greenbergian correlates -- 2.2. Other correlates of VSO -- 3. CM clausal syntax -- 3.1. Non-basic word orders -- 3.2. Distribution of pronominal clitics, lexical DPs, and full pronouns -- 3.3. Structure of the CM clause -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb-initial phenomena in Wanyi -- 2.1. Verb initial clauses -- 2.2. Verb-initial with extraposed XP -- 2.3. Non-verb-initial clauses -- 2.4. Pre-pronominal clitic position -- 2.5. Modal particles in initial position -- 2.6. Alternative (non-focus) explanation for clause-initial predicates -- 2.7. More on the syntax of predicates -- 2.8. Limiting long-distance movement -- 2.9. Predicates in finite and non-finite clauses -- 2.10. Recapitulation -- 3. The verb-initial phenomenon in Australian languages.

4. Conclusion -- 4.1. Future directions -- Appendix -- Template of Wanyi finite verb formation -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics.