• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• 1.: Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles


• 2.: Several, Few and Many


• 3.: A Note on the Syntax of Numerical Bases


• 4.: On Parameters and on Principles of Pronunciation


• 5.: A Short Note on where vs. place


• 6.: Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax


• 7.: Some Silent First Person Plurals


• 8.: A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation


• 9.: Antisymmetry and the Lexicon


• 10.: Why Isn't This a Complementizer?


• 11.: Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion (in collaboration with Jean-Yves Pollock)


• Bibliography


• Index

Richard Kayne is Silver Professor of Linguistics, New York University

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty.