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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Basic Theoretical Notions | |
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| Principles and Parameters | |
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| The Model of the Grammar | |
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| Clause Structure | |
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| Movement | |
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| Chomsky (1993, 1995) | |
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| Chomsky (2000, 2001) | |
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| Different Types of Movement | |
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| Economy | |
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| The Distribution of Nominal Arguments and the Syntax of A-Positions | |
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| Principles Determining the Syntax of A-Positions | |
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| Theta Theory and Argument Structure | |
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| Case Theory | |
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| The Extended Projection Principle | |
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| Parameters Determining the Syntax of A-Positions | |
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| The Pro-Drop Parameter | |
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| Presence vs. Absence of Object Movement | |
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| Transitive Expletive Constructions | |
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| Morphology and the Setting of Parameters | |
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| The Germanic Languages | |
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| Outline | |
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| Features, Categories and Checking. Towards Deriving the EPP and Abstract Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Object Movement and Categories - Towards Deriving Abstract Case | |
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| Towards Deriving the EPP | |
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| Some General Consequences | |
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| Syntactic Categories | |
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| Phrase Structure | |
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| Checking Theory | |
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| The Model of Grammar: The Single Output Model | |
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| Interpretability of Categorial Features | |
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| More on the EPP and Abstract Case | |
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| The EPP | |
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| The EPP and CPs | |
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| The EPP and PPs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Abstract Case as Categorial Feature Checking | |
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| Subject of a Finite Clause | |
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| Object of V | |
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| P and Case | |
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| A and N Do Not Assign Structural Case | |
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| No Overt Subjects in Infinitival Clauses | |
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| Exceptional Case Marking | |
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| Some Speculations on PRO | |
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| Acc-ing Gerunds | |
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| NP-Movement | |
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| Object Movement | |
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| Pesetsky and Torrego (2001): An Extension to CP? | |
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| An Alternative to Categorial Feature Checking: Covalent Bonding | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Word Order Freedom and Morphological Case | |
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| German vs. Dutch | |
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| The Properties of Scrambling (i): Non-Adjacency of Verb and Object | |
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| Clause Boundedness | |
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| Weak Crossover | |
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| Binding | |
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| Parasitic Gaps | |
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| Categorial Restrictions | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Properties of Scrambling (ii): Word Order Freedom in German | |
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| Clause Boundedness | |
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| Weak Crossover | |
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| Binding | |
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| Parasitic Gaps | |
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| Categorial Restrictions | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Properties of Scrambling (iii): The Contrast Dutch vs. German | |
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| Scrambling as A'-Movement | |
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| Scrambled Elements in A-Positions | |
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| The Properties of Scrambling: Summary | |
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| Analyzing Scrambling (i) | |
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| Analyzing Scrambling (ii) | |
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| Some Consequences | |
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| The Morphophonological Realization of Case | |
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| Scrambling of PPs and CPs: Contrasts between German and Dutch | |
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| Long Distance Scrambling | |
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| VP-Topicalization | |
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| Nominative-Dative Inversion, Part I | |
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| Beyond Germanic - Some Notes on Korean | |
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| The Case Parameter and Case Morphology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Nominal Complements of Adjectives and Case Morphology | |
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| Some Speculations on OV/VO Order | |
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| Summary | |
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| Subjecthood and Agreement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Subjects and Agreement in German | |
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| On the Word Order XP-Subject in the Germanic Languages | |
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| XP-Subject in German | |
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| XP-Subject: Variation in the Germanic Languages | |
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| Two Assumptions | |
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| XP-SU in the West Germanic Languages | |
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| XP-SU in the Scandinavian Languages | |
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| Summary | |
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| On Expletives | |
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| Expletives and No Arguments | |
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| Expletive-Associate Constructions | |
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| Expletive-Associate Constructions and Categorical Feature Checking | |
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| One Expletive, One Argument | |
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| One Expletive, Two or More Arguments--TECs | |
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| Some Consequences | |
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| Expletive-Associate Constructions and Non-Categorial Feature Checking | |
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| Expletives and Definite Subjects | |
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| The Absence of the DE in German | |
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| Some Cross-Linguistic Issues | |
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| A Note on Expletive Constructions and Their Relation to Other Grammatical Properties | |
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| Summary | |
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| Oblique Case and Subjecthood. Or: Why Icelandic Is Different | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Oblique Case and Subjecthood: Icelandic vs. German | |
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| Oblique Subjects | |
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| A Contrast between Icelandic and German | |
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| Different Types of Cases | |
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| The Structural Position of Oblique Subjects: Preliminary Remarks | |
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| Motivating Two Agreement Positions | |
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| The Distribution of Person and Number Agreement within the Clause Structure | |
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| Analyzing Oblique Subjects | |
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| The Absence of Oblique Subjects in German | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Note on Nominative Objects | |
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| 'XP-Subject' in Icelandic | |
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| Expletives and Definite Subjects | |
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| On the Absence of Free Argument Order in Icelandic | |
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| Morphological Case but Rigid Argument Order | |
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| Some Freedom of Word Order: IO-DO Inversion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Some Cross-Linguistic Issues | |
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| Yiddish | |
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| The Distribution of Arguments | |
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| V1 in Embedded Clauses | |
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| Faroese | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Language Index | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |