Contents -- I. Romance -- 1. Microparametric Syntax: Some Introductory Remarks -- 2. Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian -- 2.1 Problems -- 2.2 Locality -- 2.3 Solutions -- 2.4 Subjects -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3. Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement -- 3.1 A unified theory -- 3.2 Expletives -- 3.3 ECM -- 3.4 Wh- vs. clitics -- 3.5 Postverbal NPs -- 3.6 Aux-to-comp -- 3.7 Conclusion -- 4. Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing -- 4.1 Clitic climbing -- 4.2 Constraints on Clitic Climbing -- 4.3 French vs. Italian -- 5. Romance Clitics, Verb Movement, and PRO -- 5.1 Romance clitics -- 5.2 PRO -- 6. Italian Negative Infinitival Imperatives and Clitic Climbing -- 6.1 Infinitives in negative imperatives -- 6.2 Clitic climbing -- 6.3 Licensing of the empty modal -- 6.4 Overt modals in negative imperatives -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7. Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection -- 7.1 Possessive constructions -- 7.2 Auxiliary + past participle -- 7.3 Conclusion -- 8. Person Morphemes and Reflexives in Italian, French, and Related Languages -- 8.1 m- and t- -- 8.2 s- -- 9. A Note on Clitic Doubling in French -- 9.1 Cardinaletti and Starke (1994) -- 9.2 Clitic doubling in French -- 9.3 Proposal -- 9.4 Gapping -- 9.5 Subjects -- 9.6 More gapping -- 9.7 Modified pronouns -- 9.8 Quantifiers -- 9.9 Quantifiers with covert nonclitic pronouns -- 9.10 More on the third-person restriction on covert nonclitic pronouns -- 9.11 An extension to covert subjects -- 9.12 Soi -- 9.13 Conclusion -- II. English -- 10. Notes on English Agreement -- 10.1 -s as a number affix -- 10.2 Verb agreement with a wh-phrase -- 10.3 Raised auxiliaries are below C -- 10.4 English vs. French -- 10.5 Negation and emphasis as heads -- 10.6 Zero suffixes -- 10.7 Contraction -- 10.8 *Amn't -- 11. Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English.

11.1 English has inflection for number but not for person -- 11.2 Num is contentful or expletive -- 11.3 Extracted elements may adjoin to NumP -- 11.4 Analysis -- 12. The English Complementizer of -- III. Universals -- 13. Overt versus Covert Movement -- 13.1 Negation -- 13.2 Only -- 13.3 Other elements related to only and negation -- 13.4 Conclusion -- 14. Prepositional Complementizers as Attractors -- 14.1 The nominal character of French and Italian infinitives -- 14.2 French and Italian infinitives do not occupy DP positions -- 14.3 Attraction to deldi -- 14.4 The preposition restriction -- 14.5 The subject restriction -- 14.6 Topicalization, dislocation, and extraposition -- 14.7 English to: similarities -- 14.8 English to: differences -- 14.9 English to: negation -- 14.10 Conclusion -- 15. A Note on Prepositions, Complementizers, and Word Order Universals -- 15.1 Prepositional complementizers -- 15.2 of -- 15.3 Extraposition -- 15.4 Word order universals -- 15.5 Further word order universals -- 15.6 Conclusion -- 15.7 Epilogue -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.