Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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