The limits of syntactic variation

1. Preface & Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. I. The locus of (parametric) variation 4. Parametric versus functional explanations of syntactic universals (by Haspelmath, Martin) 5. Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics (by Gianollo, Chiara) 6. On the syntactic flexibility of formal features (by Zeijlstra, Hedde) 7. Expletives, datives, and the tension between morphology and syntax (by Kayne, Richard S.) 8. Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a universal semantics (by Ramchand, Gillian) 9. Aspect matters in the middle (by Lekakou, Marika) 10. II. A classic parameter revisited: the null-subject parameter 11. The null subject parameter and correlating properties: The case of Creole languages (by Nicolis, Marco) 12. The Case-F valuation parameter in Romance (by Fernandez-Salgueiro, Gerardo) 13. Silent arguments without pro: The case of Basque (by Duguine, Maia) 14. Case morphology and radical pro-drop (by Neeleman, Ad) 15. III. Parametric clustering 16. The macroparameter in a microparametric world (by Baker, Mark C.) 17. Topic prominence and null subjects (by Modesto, Marcello) 18. Non-configurationality: Free word order and argument drop in Turkish (by Ozturk, Balkiz) 19. Diachronic stability and feature interpretability (by Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos) 20. III. The acquisition of parameters 21. Can children tell us anything we did not know about parameter clustering? (by Avram, Larisa) 22. Parameter setting and input reduction (by Evers, Arnold Ernest) 23. Index