The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Gerunds: Phonologically null features -- 2 Features and control -- 3 Inflected and non-inflected infinitives: Case and control -- 1. THE MINIMALIST SYNTAX OF CLAUSAL GERUNDS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The clause structure of Clausal Gerunds -- 3 Null subjects in Clausal Gerunds -- 3.1 Problems for a Null Case/Tense approach to control in gerunds -- 3.2 Obligatory control in Clausal Gerunds -- 3.3 Non-Obligatory control in Clausal Gerunds -- 4 The syntax of Clausal Gerunds -- 4.1 The derivation of Clausal Gerunds -- 5 Overt Case marking and default Case? -- 6 Binding and Clausal Gerunds -- 7 Case and agreement in non-finite domains -- 8 Conclusion -- 2. CLAUSAL VERSUS TP-DEFECTIVE GERUNDS: -- 1 A Class of Gerunds without a TP -- 1.1 No independence in terms of tense and aspect specification -- 1.2 No projection of a lexical subject -- 2 Restructuring Gerunds? -- 3 Control and Null Case -- 3.1 Problems for a Tense/event binding approach to Null Case -- 4 Deriving control and lack of overt subjects in TP-defective gerunds -- 5 Properties of gerunds as complements of perception verbs -- 6 TP-defective Gerunds vs. gerunds as complements of perception verbs -- 7 Conclusion -- 3. AGREEMENT, CASE, CONTROL AND MOVEMENT IN INFINITIVES -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Control in dialects with inflected infinitives -- 2.1 Need for a local c-commanding antecedent -- 2.2 Sloppy reading under ellipsis -- 2.3 Impossibility of split antecedents -- 3 Null subjects of uninflected infinitives as the result of DP-movement -- 3.1 Subject control -- 3.2 Object control -- 3.3 Adjunct control -- 4 Non-overt subjects of inflected infinitives -- 5 Evidence from binding.

6 A Note on Arbitrary PRO -- 7 Believe-type verbs in Brazilian Portuguese -- 7.1 Background: Propositional infinitives in English and French -- 7.2 Contrast: Propositional infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese -- 8 Other analyses of control -- 8.1 Tense, agreement and control -- 8.2 Overt subjects of infinitives in other Romance languages -- 9 Conclusion -- 4. SYNTACTIC CHANGE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFLECTED AND NON-INFLECTED INFINITIVES -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Inflected versus non-inflected infinitives -- 3 Theories about the origin of inflected infinitives in Portuguese -- 4 A learnability explanation for the origin of inflected infinitives -- 5 Explaining the effects of the loss of inflected infinitives -- 5.1 Licensing of null subjects in dialects with inflected infinitives -- 5.2 Loss of verbal agreement in Colloquial Brazilian Portuguese -- 5.3 Null subjects of infinitives in Colloquial Brazilian Portuguese -- 5.4 Licensing of overt subjects in non-inflected infinitives -- 6 Other changes in Brazilian Portuguese -- 6.1 Background: A point-of-view projection above TP -- 6.2 Loss of inversion in BP -- 6.3 Changes in verb and clitic placement -- 6.4 Third person accusative clitics -- 7 Conclusion -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.