Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Setting the Stage | p. 2 |
The Focus of This Book | p. 5 |
The Chamorro Language | p. 10 |
The Principles and Parameters Framework | p. 11 |
The Surface Design of Chamorro | p. 19 |
Clauses Whose Predicates Are [+V] | p. 20 |
Word Order | p. 20 |
Inflection | p. 25 |
Agreement and Pronouns | p. 26 |
Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 26 |
Overt Pronouns | p. 28 |
Null Pronouns | p. 29 |
Ungrammatical Combinations of Subject and Object | p. 32 |
Voice | p. 37 |
Passive and Antipassive | p. 37 |
A Western Austronesian Voice System? | p. 39 |
Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases | p. 43 |
The Word Order of Noun Phrases | p. 43 |
Determiners | p. 47 |
Possessor-Noun Agreement | p. 48 |
Morphological Case | p. 50 |
Prepositional Phrases | p. 53 |
Clauses Whose Predicates Are [-V] | p. 53 |
A Survey of Agreement Phenomena | p. 57 |
Configurationality | p. 60 |
Two Approaches to Nonconfigurational Languages | p. 62 |
Chamorro as a Configurational Language | p. 64 |
Subjects Are Distinguished from Nonsubjects | p. 64 |
Grammatical Relations Are Differentiated Hierarchically | p. 69 |
Principle C | p. 70 |
Discourse Anaphora and Bound Variable Anaphora | p. 73 |
The Predicate XP Forms a Constituent | p. 80 |
Full Noun Phrases Are Syntactic Arguments | p. 85 |
Some Approaches to the Position of the Subject | p. 87 |
Chamorro Subjects at D-Structure | p. 89 |
Chamorro Subjects at S-Structure | p. 92 |
Logical Form and Ergativity | p. 99 |
What Explains the EXAR? | p. 111 |
On Deriving VSO | p. 118 |
Two Approaches to VSO Order | p. 120 |
Verb Raising | p. 120 |
Subject Lowering | p. 124 |
Chamorro as a Subject Lowering Language | p. 129 |
Adverbs | p. 129 |
Coordinate VP's | p. 131 |
Word Order Flexibility in Clauses with Coordinate VP's | p. 133 |
Lowering in Overt Syntax | p. 139 |
Lowering from the Specifier of I[superscript 0] | p. 142 |
Subject Lowering and Binding Theory | p. 145 |
Reconstruction | p. 147 |
A Leftness Effect | p. 151 |
Binding Theory and Direct Objects | p. 153 |
Binding Theory and Other Complements | p. 160 |
The Typology of VSO Languages | p. 163 |
A Syntactic Agreement Relation | p. 174 |
Some Background | p. 175 |
Defining the Associate Relation | p. 179 |
The Shape of Clauses and Other Constituents in Chamorro | p. 182 |
Clauses | p. 182 |
Noun Phrases | p. 183 |
Constituent Questions | p. 184 |
Summary | p. 186 |
Agreement as Relation or Category? | p. 186 |
Agr[superscript 0] and Its Function | p. 187 |
Evidence against Agr[superscript 0] | p. 189 |
The Morphology of Agreement | p. 194 |
Feature Compatibility and Its Consequences | p. 196 |
Inflectional Word Formation Rules | p. 199 |
Conclusion | p. 205 |
The Morphology of Extraction | p. 206 |
Two Wh-Constructions in Chamorro | p. 208 |
Constituent Questions | p. 208 |
Relative Clauses | p. 214 |
Operator-C Agreement | p. 221 |
The Complementizer System | p. 222 |
Complementizer Effects in Wh-Constructions | p. 224 |
Operator-C Agreement in Relative Clauses | p. 231 |
Summary | p. 234 |
Wh-Agreement | p. 234 |
Verbal Inflection in Wh-Constructions | p. 236 |
The Syntactic Insignificance of the Inflection | p. 239 |
The Wh-Category | p. 245 |
The Other Category | p. 252 |
Summary | p. 257 |
Conclusion | p. 258 |
Topic and Focus | p. 261 |
Topic | p. 262 |
Focus | p. 268 |
Summary | p. 275 |
Syntactic Agreement and Locality | p. 276 |
The Head Government Requirement | p. 277 |
Licensing by Lexical Heads | p. 281 |
Intervening Heads | p. 286 |
Licensing by Functional Heads | p. 292 |
Wh-Movement of Subject and Predicate | p. 293 |
What Head Licenses the Trace of the Subject? | p. 299 |
V[superscript 0] and A[superscript 0] | p. 299 |
C[superscript 0] | p. 302 |
Finite I[superscript 0] as Licensing Head | p. 305 |
C[superscript 0] as Licensing Head | p. 308 |
Summary | p. 313 |
Traces Created by A-Movement | p. 314 |
Passives and Unaccusatives | p. 314 |
The Internal Subject Hypothesis | p. 315 |
Raising | p. 316 |
Conclusion | p. 318 |
Adjunct Extraction | p. 323 |
Prologue: Adjoined Categories and M-Command | p. 325 |
Evidence from the Head Government Requirement | p. 326 |
Evidence from Anaphora and Wh-Agreement | p. 329 |
More Evidence from the Head Government Requirement | p. 330 |
Summary | p. 332 |
Two Types of Adverbials | p. 332 |
Phrase Structure | p. 332 |
Wh-Movement | p. 340 |
The Head Government Requirement | p. 344 |
The Shortest Move Requirement | p. 348 |
Some Background | p. 348 |
Evidence from Islands | p. 351 |
Evidence from Wh-Agreement | p. 356 |
Paradox Resolved | p. 366 |
Conclusion | p. 370 |
On the Design of Agreement | p. 372 |
Orthography | p. 375 |
Morpheme-by-Morpheme Glosses | p. 377 |
Sources | p. 379 |
Notes | p. 381 |
References | p. 403 |
Index | p. 417 |
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