Guglielmo Cinque is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. He is the author of Types of A-Dependencies and The Syntax of Adjectives (both published by MIT Press).

Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations and Symbols xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Nominal Subprojections and Their Word Orders 9
3 Toward a Restrictive Theory of Linear Order 23
4 Extending the Analysis to the Clause 59
5 The Generalizations That Characterize Linear Order and What They Follow From 95
6 Conclusion 107
Notes 109
References 141
Author Index 183
Language Index 189
Subject Index 193