Language Universals and Variation Book

	Preface	ix
1	Quirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates	1
	Ingestives in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective	4
	Ingestives and Ambitransitivity	10
	Ingestives as Three-Place Predicates	12
2	Explaining Clitic Variation in Spanish	21
	Overview of the Third Person Clitic Paradigm in Spanish	22
	Overview of the Etymological and the Referential Dialects	22
	Accounting for the Etymological Dialect and Referential A Dialects	25
	Contact Dialects	28
3	Slavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human Cognition	41
	A Framework	42
	Slavic	45
	Bantu	49
	Small Clauses	54
	Prototypicality	56
4	The Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language Acquisition	61
	The Split VP Hypothesis	63
	Preverbal Objects	67
	A Split VP Account	71
	Further Prediction	74
	Clausal Architecture	75
5	Syntactic Constraints in a "Free Word Order" Language	83
	Composition of Warlpiri AUX	86
	Syntactic Constraints on the Position of AUX	92
	Negative AUX	112
	A Comparative Overview	117
6	On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions	131
	Type I--Languages with One (Main) Adpositional Case	132
	Type II--Languages with More Than One Adpositional Case	143
	Toward a Minimalist Account of Adpositional Case	150
7	Optimality and Three Western Austronesian Case Systems	155
	Background: Case System Typology, Optimality and Austronesian	156
	Three Western Austronesian Case Systems in OT	160
8	Affixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax	185
	Morpholexical versus Morphosyntactic Processes	186
	Verbal Suffixation	188
	Verbal Prefixation	192
	Affixes versus Clitics	193
	Clitics and Inflectional Morphology	194
	On the Architecture of Universal Grammar	197
	Acquired Language Deficit	199
	Language Change	201
	Language Acquisition	202
	Parsing Strategies for Bantu	204
9	Two Types of Wh-In-Situ	211
	Lexical Properties	213
	Syntactic Properties	215
	Toward a Nonunitary Account	219
	Null Operator Movement as Feature Movement	225
10	Vowel Place Contrasts	239
	Evidence for Peripheral	241
	The Phonetic Realization of Peripheral Vowels	260
	Conclusions and Consequences	263
	Author Index	271
	Index of Languages and Language Families	273
	Subject Index	275
	About the Editors and Contributors	279