Preliminary Material / Susan D. Rothstein -- Introduction / Susan D. Rothstein -- A Case for Emerging Functional Categories / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Two Functional Categories in Noun Phrases: Evidence from Modern Hebrew / Elizabeth Ritter -- On the Position of Subjects / Heles Contreras -- Phrase Structure of Ellipsis in English / Anne Lobeck -- The Alignment of Arguments in Adjective Phrases / Tim Stowell -- Syntactic Licensing and Subcategorization / Susan D. Rothstein -- Adjunct-Predicate Licensing and D-Structure / T. R. Rapoport -- A Phrase Structure Theory for Tertiaries / Thomas Ernst -- Relative Clauses, Licensing, and the Nature of the Derivation / David Lebeaux -- Generalized Transformations and the D-Structure Position of Adjuncts / Margaret Speas -- Index / Susan D. Rothstein -- Syntax and Semantics / Susan D. Rothstein.

This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers. Directed toward an audience of syntacticians and those interested in the applications of syntactic theory, it demonstrates the expanding explanatory parts of this approach to syntax.

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