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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| The Focus of This Book | |
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| The Chamorro Language | |
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| The Principles and Parameters Framework | |
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| The Surface Design of Chamorro | |
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| Clauses Whose Predicates Are [+V] | |
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| Word Order | |
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| Inflection | |
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| Agreement and Pronouns | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Overt Pronouns | |
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| Null Pronouns | |
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| Ungrammatical Combinations of Subject and Object | |
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| Voice | |
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| Passive and Antipassive | |
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| A Western Austronesian Voice System? | |
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| Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases | |
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| The Word Order of Noun Phrases | |
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| Determiners | |
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| Possessor-Noun Agreement | |
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| Morphological Case | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Clauses Whose Predicates Are [-V] | |
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| A Survey of Agreement Phenomena | |
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| Configurationality | |
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| Two Approaches to Nonconfigurational Languages | |
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| Chamorro as a Configurational Language | |
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| Subjects Are Distinguished from Nonsubjects | |
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| Grammatical Relations Are Differentiated Hierarchically | |
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| Principle C | |
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| Discourse Anaphora and Bound Variable Anaphora | |
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| The Predicate XP Forms a Constituent | |
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| Full Noun Phrases Are Syntactic Arguments | |
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| Some Approaches to the Position of the Subject | |
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| Chamorro Subjects at D-Structure | |
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| Chamorro Subjects at S-Structure | |
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| Logical Form and Ergativity | |
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| What Explains the EXAR? | |
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| On Deriving VSO | |
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| Two Approaches to VSO Order | |
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| Verb Raising | |
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| Subject Lowering | |
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| Chamorro as a Subject Lowering Language | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Coordinate VP's | |
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| Word Order Flexibility in Clauses with Coordinate VP's | |
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| Lowering in Overt Syntax | |
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| Lowering from the Specifier of I[superscript 0] | |
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| Subject Lowering and Binding Theory | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| A Leftness Effect | |
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| Binding Theory and Direct Objects | |
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| Binding Theory and Other Complements | |
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| The Typology of VSO Languages | |
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| A Syntactic Agreement Relation | |
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| Some Background | |
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| Defining the Associate Relation | |
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| The Shape of Clauses and Other Constituents in Chamorro | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Noun Phrases | |
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| Constituent Questions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Agreement as Relation or Category? | |
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| Agr[superscript 0] and Its Function | |
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| Evidence against Agr[superscript 0] | |
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| The Morphology of Agreement | |
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| Feature Compatibility and Its Consequences | |
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| Inflectional Word Formation Rules | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Morphology of Extraction | |
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| Two Wh-Constructions in Chamorro | |
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| Constituent Questions | |
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| Relative Clauses | |
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| Operator-C Agreement | |
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| The Complementizer System | |
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| Complementizer Effects in Wh-Constructions | |
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| Operator-C Agreement in Relative Clauses | |
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| Summary | |
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| Wh-Agreement | |
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| Verbal Inflection in Wh-Constructions | |
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| The Syntactic Insignificance of the Inflection | |
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| The Wh-Category | |
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| The Other Category | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Topic and Focus | |
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| Topic | |
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| Focus | |
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| Summary | |
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| Syntactic Agreement and Locality | |
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| The Head Government Requirement | |
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| Licensing by Lexical Heads | |
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| Intervening Heads | |
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| Licensing by Functional Heads | |
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| Wh-Movement of Subject and Predicate | |
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| What Head Licenses the Trace of the Subject? | |
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| V[superscript 0] and A[superscript 0] | |
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| C[superscript 0] | |
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| Finite I[superscript 0] as Licensing Head | |
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| C[superscript 0] as Licensing Head | |
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| Summary | |
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| Traces Created by A-Movement | |
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| Passives and Unaccusatives | |
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| The Internal Subject Hypothesis | |
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| Raising | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Adjunct Extraction | |
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| Prologue: Adjoined Categories and M-Command | |
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| Evidence from the Head Government Requirement | |
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| Evidence from Anaphora and Wh-Agreement | |
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| More Evidence from the Head Government Requirement | |
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| Summary | |
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| Two Types of Adverbials | |
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| Phrase Structure | |
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| Wh-Movement | |
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| The Head Government Requirement | |
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| The Shortest Move Requirement | |
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| Some Background | |
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| Evidence from Islands | |
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| Evidence from Wh-Agreement | |
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| Paradox Resolved | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| On the Design of Agreement | |
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| Orthography | |
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| Morpheme-by-Morpheme Glosses | |
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| Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |