Contents -- List of contributors -- Phases and interpretation -- Chapter 1 Interpretation and structuralconditions -- Grafts follow from merge -- An interpretive effect of head movement -- When we do that and when we don't: A contrastive analysis of VP ellipsis and VP anaphora -- Chapter 2 Interpretation in the DP-phase -- 'HAVE' = 'BE' + PREP(osition): New evidence for the preposition incorporation analysis of clausal possession -- Northern Norwegian degree questions and the syntax of measurement -- Parallels in clausal and nominal periphery -- Chapter 3 Functional projections in the vP-phase -- The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically -- Number agreement and event pluralization: A case study -- The Phase Condition and cyclic Spell-out: Evidence from VP-topicalization -- Parallel phases: a study on the high and low left periphery of Old Italian -- Chapter 4 The CP-phase and Subject Licensing -- Obviation in subjunctive argument clauses and the first-personal interpretation -- Who is lui? Reference of Italian overt and covert subject pronouns -- Satisfying the Subject Criterion by a non subject: English Locative Inversion and Heavy NP Shift -- Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery -- Subject index -- Language index.