The Bloomsbury companion to syntax / edited by Silvia Luraghi and Claudia Parodi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Hypothesis formation / William Croft -- Hypothesis testing in the minimalist program / Mark C. Baker -- Field methods in syntactic research / Marianne Mithun -- Corpus methods in syntax / Maria Freddi -- Constituents / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo -- X'-structure and minimalism / Jairo Nunes -- The structure of NPs: some insights on case, empty categories, and poverty of stimulus / Giuseppe Longobardi and Guiseppina Silvestri -- Word order / Pamela Munro -- Scrambling / Francisco Ord{u2BE4}nez -- On V2 types / Cecilia Poletto -- Clitics / Silvia Luraghi -- Changing the subject: shifting notions about subjecthood in generative grammar / Tim Stowell -- Alignment and grammatical relations / Doris L. Payne -- Passives and antipassives / Edward L. Keenan -- Middle and reflexive / Leonid Kulikov -- Causatives: structure, type, and distribution / Jae Jung Song -- Coordination / Caterina Mauri -- Wh-movement / Luis L{u2BF0}ez -- Complementation / Claudia Parodi and A. Carlos Quicoli -- Adverbial subordination / Holger Diessel -- Negation / Liliane Haegeman and Terje Lohndal -- Syntactic change / Th{u2BF2}hallur Eyth{u2BF2}sson -- Acquisition of syntax / Maria Teresa Guasti -- Usage and syntax / Paul J. Hopper -- Construction grammar and the syntax-semantics interface / Laura A. Michaelis -- Topic, focus, and the cartography of the left periphery / Luigi Rizzi -- Optimality theory as a possible framework for the minimalist program / Vieri Samek-Lodvici.