Postverbal Behavior Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
1	An Example	1
2	Objectives	3
3	Some Phenomena Illustrating Order Variation	4
4	Questions to be Addressed	12
5	Why Only English Data?	14
2	Grammatical Weight	15
1	Introduction	15
2	Proposed Definitions of Weight	16
3	Evaluating Characterizations of Weight	23
4	Length and Complexity	32
5	Explaining Weight Effects	42
App. A	Stimuli used in the questionnaire study	58
App. B	Verb-Particle Frequency vs. HNPS Rates	60
3	Information Structure and Weight	61
1	Introduction	61
2	Characterizing the Role of Information Structure in Ordering	62
3	Information Structure vs. Grammatical Structure	67
4	Additional Factors	83
1	Introduction	83
2	Semantic Connectedness	83
3	Lexical Bias	87
4	Ambiguity Avoidance	88
App. A	Stimuli from the questionnaire study	110
App. B	Stimuli from the ambiguity experiment	113
5	Theoretical and Metatheoretical Implications	115
1	Introduction	115
2	Generative Analyses	116
3	Goals of Syntactic Research	131
6	Methodological Issues	149
1	Introduction	149
2	Simplicity	150
3	Generality	153
4	Coverage	156
	References	167
	Name Index	177
	Subject Index	181