Guglielmo Cinque is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Venice. He also taught, as a visiting professor, at the Universities of Vienna (1985/86), Geneva (1989/90) Harvard (1997/98), UCLA (2002/03), Brussels (2010/2011). He is co-editor of the Rivista di grammatica generativa, and is in the editorial board of various linguistics journals (among which, The Linguistic Review and Studia Linguistica), and linguistics book series (among which Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Dordrecht, Kluwer, Linguistik Aktuell, Amsterdam, Benjamins). He is honorary professor of the University of Bucharest and honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America. He has worked, and continues to work, in the fields of syntactic theory, romance linguistics, and comparative syntax, and has published volumes in these areas with MIT Press, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.

In this new book, well-known linguist Guglielmo Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. The articles gathered in the first part of the present volume deal with word order, while the second address relative clauses.

Introduction 1. Word Order Typology: A Change of Perspective 2. The Antisymmetric Programme: Theoretical and Typological Implications 3. Greenberg's Universal 20 and the Semitic DP 4. Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions 5. Again on Tense, Aspect, Mood morpheme order and the Mirror Principle 6. Mapping Spatial PPs: An Introduction 7. The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages 8. Are all languages 'Numeral Classifier Languages'? 9. Greenberg's Universal 23 and SVO Languages 10. On Keenan and Comrie's Primary Relativization Constraint 11. A Note on Verb/Object Order and Head/Relative Clause Order 12. A Note on Linguistic Theory and Typology 13. More on the Indefinite Character of the Head of Restrictive Relatives 14. Two Types of Nonrestrictive Relatives 15. Five Notes on Correlatives 16. On a selective "violation" of the Complex NP Constraint 17. On Double-Headed Relative Clauses