Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Aims and approach -- 2. Elements of Minimalist syntax -- 3. Feature-based projection of functional categories -- Chapter 2: A feature-based derivation of functional heads -- 1. The syntactic utility of functional heads -- 2. Derived functional heads -- 2.1. Derived functional heads in the literature -- 2.2. Feature matrices and constraints -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Germanic verb-second and expletive subjects -- 1. Patterns of Germanic verb-second -- 2. Expletive subjects -- 3. Verb-second and the Top domain in Old English and Middle English -- 3.1. Early English verb-second -- 3.2. A feature-based account of Old and Middle English verb-second -- 3.3. Middle English dialects and language change -- 3.4. Streamlining accounts of Old English word order below the TOPIC domain -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Aspects of clitic placement and clitic climbing -- 1. Head movement accounts of clitic placement -- 2. Verb and clitic movement -- 2.1. Mechanics of clitic placement in Italian and Spanish -- 2.2. Clitic placement in French -- 2.3. Imperatives -- 2.4. The orders of multiple object clitics in Modern Greek -- 3. Problems with clitic climbing in a feature-based syntax -- 4. A feature-based approach to clitic climbing -- 4.1. Restructuring -- 4.2. Mechanics of clitic climbing with feature-derived functional categories -- 4.3. Some properties of clitic climbing -- 4.4. Other accounts of clitic climbing -- 4.5. Clitic climbing out of finite clauses in Salentino -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Tenseless clauses and coordination -- 1. Accusative subject conjuncts -- 1.1. Properties of the accusative subject conjunct construction -- 1.2. The structure of coordination in the ASC construction -- 1.3. The internal structure of the ASC clause -- 2. Small clause complements of perception verbs.

2.1. The ASC-like structure of "Bare Infinitive" complements -- 2.2. Higginbotham's (1983) account -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The acquisition of functional features -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 2.1. Feature projection versus functional category adjunction -- 2.2. The present study -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Peter -- 3.2. Nina -- 3.3. Naomi -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The acquisition of adult functional categories -- 1. Theories and predictions -- 1.1. Strong continuity accounts -- 1.2. Radford's maturational theory -- 1.3. Induction -- 1.4. Bottom-up structure building accounts -- 1.5. Feature-based theory of functional categories -- 1.6. Processing capacity, working memory, and phrase structure complexity -- 2. Procedures -- 2.1. Counting functional categories -- 2.2. Size normalization and nominative subject filtering -- 2.3. A measure of phrase structure complexity -- 2.4 Reliability -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Peter -- 3.2. Nina -- 3.3. Naomi -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Discussion of results -- 4.1. The development of the adult functional category system -- 4.2. Non-adult feature matrices -- 5. Structure building approaches to the acquisition of functional categories -- 5.1. Guilfoyle and Noonan -- 5.2. Vainikka -- 5.3. Summary -- 6. A new picture of maturation -- 6.1. On the maturation of representational resources -- 6.2. Minimal functional projection and the maturation of minimal functional structure -- 7. Results of studies of functional category acquisition in other languages -- 7.1. The growth of functional categories -- 7.2. Feature ordering and feature co-occurrence restrictions -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The representation of functional categories as a factor in Specific Language Impairment -- 1. Theories and predictions -- 1.1. Deficits in agreement -- 1.2. Extended optional infinitives -- 1.3. Deficits in implicit rules.

1.4. Impoverished inventories of functional elements -- 1.5. Feature-based theory -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Results for children with SLI -- 3.2. Comparison with language-matched ND children -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.