Particles and Projections in Irish Syntax [Paperback]

1: Theoretical Issues.- 1.1 Explaining Syntactic Universals and Syntactic Variation.- 1.1.1 Lexical and Functional Projections: A Retrospective.- 1.1.2 Projections, Particles and Initial Consonant Mutation.- 1.2 Constraints on Phrase-Structure.- 1.2.1 X-theory.- 1.2.2 Deriving X-theory: Kayne (1993).- 1.3 Conditions on Movement: Deriving Locality.- 1.4 Motivating Syntactic Movement.- 1.4.1 Motivating NP-movement.- 1.4.2 Motivating Head Movement.- 1.4.3 A Note on Terminology.- 1.5 Summary.- 2: Movement and Mutation Processes In Modern Irish.- 2.0 Introduction.- 2.0.1 Initial Consonant Mutation.- 2.0.2 On Deriving VSOX Word-Order: Preliminaries.- 2.1 The Scope of Verb-Movement in Irish.- 2.1.1 Adverb Placement (I).- 2.1.2 Pronoun-Postposing.- 2.1.2.1 Diachronic Changes.- 2.1.2.2 Adverb Placement (II).- 2.1.2.3 Restrictions on Postposing.- 2.2 Unpacking INFL: The Preverbal Particle System.- 2.2.1 Deriving [C?].- 2.2.2 Deriving [T?].- 2.2.3 Deriving [Neg?].- 2.2.4 Deriving [Agr?].- 2.3 Mutation in Copular Constructions.- 2.4 Summary.- 3: Conspicuous Absences: Mutation & Extraction In Negated Contexts.- 3.0 Introduction.- 3.1 The Problem of Gan: Mutation And Extraction.- 3.1.1 Small Clauses and Infinitival Clauses.- 3.1.2 Gan: Mutation and Subject Extraction.- 3.2 Relative Clauses, Narrative Fronting and Topicalization in Irish.- 3.2.1 Indirect vs. Direct Relatives: aNvs. aL.- 3.2.1.1 Dialectal & Historical Factors.- 3.2.1.2 Past Tense Contexts.- 3.2.1.3 Independent & Dependent Forms.- 3.2.2 Negative Relatives: The Dog that Didnt Bark.- 3.2.3 Topicalization and WH-movement in Celtic and Germanic.- 3.2.3.1 M?ller & Sternefeld (1993).- 3.2.3.2 Direct Relatives as Topic-Phrases.- 3.2.3.3 Topicalization vs. Narrative-Fronting.- 3.2.3.4 Negative Polarity Licensing.- 3.3 Conclusion.- 4: Visible Arguments: Theta-Government And Case In Ulster Irish.- 4.0 Introduction.- 4.1 Deriving SOVX word order.- 4.1.1.1 Thematic Constraints.- 4.1.1.2 Lexical Subjects.- lC†