Edited by Giglielmo Cinque, Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice, Italy and
Edited by Richard S. Kayne, Professor of Linguistics, New York University

• Preface


• 1: Richard Kayne: Some Notes of Comparative Syntax with Special Reference to English and French


• 2: Luigi Rizzi: On the Grammatical Basis of Language Development: A Case Study


• 3: Arhonto Terzi: Comparative Syntax and Language Disordered


• 4: Enoch Oladé Aboh: Object Shift, Verb Movement, and Verb Reduplication


• 5: R. Amritavalli and K. A. Jayaseelan: Finiteness and Negation in Dravidian


• 6: Paolo Benincà and Cecila Poletto: On Some Descriptive Generalizations in Romance


• 7: Lisa L.-S. Cheng and Rint Sybesma: Classifiers in Four Varieties of Chinese


• 8: Michel DeGraff: Morphology and Word Order in "Creolization" and Beyond


• 9: Steven Franks: Slavic Languages


• 10: Anders Holmberg and Christer Platzack: The Scandinavian Languages


• 11: Alain Kihm: Noun Class, Gender, and the Lexicon-Syntax-Morphology Interfaces: A Comparative Study of Niger-Congo and Romance Languages


• 12: Jaklin Kornfilt: Agreement and Its Placement in Turkic Non-Subject Relative Clauses


• 13: Nicola Munaro and Jean-Yves Pollock: Qu'est-ce-que (qu)-est-ce que? A Case Study in Comparative Romance Interrogative Syntax


• 14: Jamal Ouhalla: Clitic-placement, Grammaticalization, and Reanalysis in Berber


• 15: Eduardo Raposo and Juan Uriagereka: Clitic Placement in Western Iberian: A Minimalist View


• 16: Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon: Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections


• 17: Gemma Rigau: Number Agreement Variation in Catalan Dialects


• 18: Andrew Simpson: Calssifiers and DP Structure in Southeast Asia


• 19: Maggie Tallerman: The Celtic Languages


• 20: John Whitman: Preverbal Elements in Korean and Japanese


• 21: Jan-Wouter Zwart: Continental West-Germanic Languages

Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrealted, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. This comprehensive handbook serves two functions. It will provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and it will provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved. With top-notch editors and contributors from around the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics.