Table of Contents

1: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver: Syntactic Diagnostics in the Study of Human Language
Part I: Head Movement
2: Christer Platzack: Head Movement as a Phonological Operation
3: Heidi Harley: Getting Morphemes in Order: affixation and head movement
4: Naama Friedmann: Verb Movement to C: from agrammatic aphasias to syntactic analysis
5: Jochen Zeller: In Defence of Head Movement: evidence from Bantu
6: Heidi Harley: Diagnosing Head Movement
Part II: Phrasal Movement
7: David Pesetsky: Phrasal Movement and its DIscontents: diseases and diagnoses
8: Winfried Lechner: Diagnosing Covert Movement: the Duke of York reconstruction
9: Hamida Demirdache: Arguments for LD Movement in LD Questions in Child Language
10: Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam: Diagnosing Covert A-movement
11: Winfried Lechner: Diagnosing XP Movement
Part III: Agreement
12: Sandra Chung: The Syntactic Relations Behind Agreement
13: Ora Matushansky: Gender Confusion
14: Maria Teresa Guasti: Agreement in the Production of Subject and Object wh-questions
15: Jamal Ouhalla: Agreement Unified: Arabic
16: Maria Teresa Guasti and Ora Matushansky: Diagnosing Agreement
Part IV: Anaphora
17: Martin Everaert and Elena Anagnostopoulou: Identifying Anaphoric Dependencies
18: Chris Tancredi: Condition B
19: Sergey Avrutin and Sergio Baauw: A Processing View on Agrammatism
20: Norvin Richards: Tagalog Anaphora
21: martin Everaert: Diagnosing Anaphora
Part V: Ellipsis
22: Jason Merchant: Polarity Item Under Ellipsis
23: Susanne Winkler: Syntactic Diagnostics for Extraction of Focus From Ellipsis Site
24: Lyn Frazier: A Recycling Approach to Processing Ellipsis
25: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Anikó Lipták: What Sluicing Can do, What it Can't, and in Which Language: on the cross-linguistic syntax of ellipsis
26: Jason Merchant: Diagnosing Ellipsis

About the Author

Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng is Chair Professor of Linguistics at Leiden University. She received her PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 1991. Her main research interests include comparative syntax (both micro- and macro-comparation), syntax-semantics interface and syntax-phonology interface. Some recent research topics include verb doubling, free choice items and prosodic domains. She has published in Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, Syntax, Journal of East Asian
Linguistics, Journal of African Language and Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, and Journal of Semantics.
Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Utrecht University. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Tilburg University in 1990. His main research interests are Dutch syntax, micro- and macro-comparative syntax, the study of syntax at the interface with information structure and affect. Some recent research topics include predicate displacement, the internal syntax of adjective phrases, NP-ellipsis, the syntax of interjections, exclamatives and curse expressions. He has published in
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, Lingua, Linguistics, and The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.