| Introduction: Of Parameters and Polysynthesis | p. 3 |
| Geniuses and Parameters | p. 6 |
| An Initial Acquaintance with Mohawk | p. 9 |
| Toward a Macroparameter | p. 14 |
| Preliminary Evidence for the MVC | p. 19 |
| Other Implications and Prospectus | p. 23 |
| On Morphological Structure and Syntactic Structure | p. 27 |
| Notes | p. 35 |
| Nonconfigurationality | |
| The Position of NPs | p. 41 |
| All NPs Are Adjuncts | p. 43 |
| Disjoint Reference Effects | p. 43 |
| The Absence of NP Anaphors | p. 49 |
| The Absence of Nonreferential Quantified NPs | p. 53 |
| Interrogative Constructions | p. 66 |
| CED Effects | p. 73 |
| Weak Crossover Effects | p. 77 |
| Why NPs Cannot Be in Argument Position | p. 83 |
| Notes | p. 89 |
| The Licensing of NPs | p. 96 |
| Similarities with Clitic Left Dislocation | p. 98 |
| The Necessity of a Null Pronoun | p. 98 |
| The NP Is Adjoined | p. 100 |
| The NP Is Part of a Chain | p. 102 |
| The NP Is Not Moved | p. 110 |
| The Adjunct Licensing Condition | p. 111 |
| Differences: I. Possible Adjunction Sites | p. 113 |
| Left Adjunction vs. Right Adjunction | p. 114 |
| The Category of the Adjoined-to Phrase | p. 118 |
| Intonational Evidence | p. 121 |
| Differences: II. Features of the Adjoined NP | p. 121 |
| Number | p. 122 |
| Definiteness | p. 125 |
| Case | p. 129 |
| Conclusion | p. 132 |
| Notes | p. 133 |
| Discontinuous Constituents | p. 138 |
| The Nature of the Problem | p. 138 |
| Floated Quantifiers | p. 144 |
| All-type Quantifiers | p. 144 |
| A Lot-type Quantifiers | p. 152 |
| Operator Constructions | p. 158 |
| Split Interrogatives | p. 158 |
| Relative Clauses: Internally Headed and Otherwise | p. 162 |
| Split Demonstratives | p. 176 |
| Conclusion | p. 180 |
| Notes | p. 182 |
| Word Structure and Phrase Structure | |
| Agreement and Clause Structure | p. 189 |
| Introduction | p. 189 |
| Case and the Number of Agreement Morphemes | p. 192 |
| Basic Verb Types | p. 193 |
| The Location of Agreement | p. 198 |
| Reflexive Verbs | p. 199 |
| Arguments Without Agreement | p. 203 |
| The Form of Agreement | p. 211 |
| Lexically Determined Form | p. 212 |
| Configurationally Determined Form | p. 217 |
| Some Refinements | p. 224 |
| Agreement in Other Languages | p. 234 |
| Conclusion | p. 237 |
| Notes | p. 238 |
| Agreement and the Structure of NP | p. 244 |
| The R Argument | p. 244 |
| Noun Prefixes in Mohawk | p. 244 |
| Noun Prefixes in Other Languages | p. 248 |
| The Absence of Determiners | p. 252 |
| Other NP-Internal Arguments | p. 257 |
| The Markedness of Possessor Agreement (Nichols' Problem) | p. 257 |
| Why Possessor Agreement Is Marked | p. 260 |
| Dependent-Marked Possessors | p. 262 |
| Head-Marked Possessors | p. 265 |
| Noun Complements | p. 271 |
| Conclusion | p. 273 |
| Notes | p. 274 |
| Noun Incorporation | p. 279 |
| The Cross-linguistic Distribution of NI | p. 280 |
| Why Some Languages Cannot Have NI | p. 280 |
| How NI Satisfies the MVC | p. 283 |
| The Semantics of NI | p. 287 |
| The Language-Internal Distribution of NI | p. 291 |
| The Basic Generalization | p. 291 |
| Problems With the Previous Analysis | p. 295 |
| Goal Incorporation | p. 297 |
| Theme Incorporation | p. 300 |
| Agent Incorporation | p. 303 |
| The Syntactic Nature of NI | p. 306 |
| A Preliminary Comparison | p. 307 |
| Agreement and the Null Argument | p. 314 |
| Disjoint Reference Effects | p. 320 |
| NI and Questions | p. 322 |
| NI and Agreement in Other Languages | p. 326 |
| Conclusion | p. 329 |
| Notes | p. 330 |
| Complex Predicates | p. 338 |
| Limitations on Possessor Raising | p. 339 |
| Morphological Causatives | p. 348 |
| Limitations on the Mohawk Causative | p. 348 |
| The "Light" Causative Construction | p. 352 |
| Causatives in Other Languages | p. 361 |
| Conclusions | p. 372 |
| Control Constructions | p. 374 |
| The Mohawk Purposive | p. 374 |
| Other Languages | p. 380 |
| Distinguishing Control From LVCs | p. 383 |
| Adjectival Predicates and Possessor Raising | p. 384 |
| Conclusion | p. 389 |
| Notes | p. 391 |
| Nonnominal Categories | |
| Adpositional Phrases | p. 399 |
| The Internal Structure of PPs | p. 400 |
| The Argument Structure of the P | p. 400 |
| The P-Complement Relation | p. 405 |
| The Possessor of the Complement | p. 410 |
| The External Distribution of PPs | p. 414 |
| The Impossibility of PP Arguments | p. 416 |
| The Licensing of Adjunct PPs | p. 422 |
| The Null Adposition | p. 424 |
| Applicative Constructions | p. 426 |
| Higher-Predicate Applicatives | p. 432 |
| Adpositional Applicatives | p. 439 |
| Conclusion | p. 445 |
| Notes | p. 446 |
| Embedded Clauses | p. 452 |
| The Distribution of Argument Clauses | p. 452 |
| Clausal Subjects | p. 454 |
| Clausal Complements | p. 458 |
| Nominalization | p. 465 |
| Predicting the Patterns | p. 469 |
| The Internal Structure of Clauses | p. 471 |
| The Absence of Infinitives | p. 472 |
| Alleged Examples of Infinitives | p. 475 |
| Implications for Control | p. 484 |
| Conclusion | p. 491 |
| Notes | p. 492 |
| Conclusion: On the Nature of Parameterization | p. 496 |
| Is There a Macroparameter? | p. 496 |
| Are There Other Macroparameters? | p. 504 |
| Why Are There Macroparameters? | p. 506 |
| A Biological Explanation | p. 508 |
| A Sociological Explanation | p. 510 |
| A Theological Explanation | p. 512 |
| Notes | p. 515 |
| Abbreviations | p. 517 |
| Orthography and Pronunciation | p. 522 |
| Sources and Methods | p. 524 |
| References | p. 527 |
| Index | p. 539 |
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