Syntax within the Word -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- PART 1. Introduction -- Syntax within the Word -- Distributed morphology -- 1. Late-insertion -- 2. Morphosyntactic decomposition -- 3. Underspecification -- 4. Why reject lexicalism? -- 5. Construction of an utterance -- 6. Spellout, competition, and the subset principle -- 7. The distinction between functional and contentful -- 8. Lexical categories in DM -- 9. Special meanings and the Encyclopedia -- Morphological operations in DM -- 1. Morphological merger -- 2. Fission and fusion -- 3. Readjustment rules -- PART 2. On a theory of root allomorphy -- Root allomorphy -- 1. Roots in the grammar -- 2. Licensing insertion -- 3. Alternative analysis of root allomorphy -- 4. Competition of roots revisited -- Simplifying DM -- 1. Readjustment rules -- 2. Licensing -- 3. Null heads -- Expansion of the fusion analysis -- 1. The ¬ specification -- 2. Enter Minimize Exponence -- Inflection in compounds -- 1. Minimize Exponence analysis -- Interim conclusions -- PART 3. Argument selection -- Argument selection within Distributed Morphology -- 1. Subcategorization -- 2. Subcategorization within DM -- Minimize Exponence based account of subcategorization. -- 1. Determining the feature specification of a vocabulary item -- 2. Differences among subcategorization models -- 3. Evidence for the feature [v] in english -- 4. Blocking "Extra" Arguments -- Subcategorization expanded -- 1. Rampant polysemy -- 2. Structural coercion -- 3. Dative alternations -- The nature of verbs -- 1. Category selection -- 2. The status of the verb phrase -- 2.1 Argument 1: The difference between patient and proposition -- 2.2 Argument 2: Co-occurrence of patient and proposition -- 2.3 Argument 3: Exceptional Case Marking.

2.4 Argument 4: The Adjacency Condition -- 3. Verb classes -- Interim Conclusions, redux -- PART4. Odds and ends -- Event semantics -- 1. Parsons (1990) -- 2. Neo-Davidsonianism Meets Syntax -- 3. Remaining questions -- Typology and theory -- 1. Typological predictions -- 2. On feature specification and the Elsewhere Principle -- 3. Further research? -- Conclusions -- 1. Some final thoughts -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.