Preliminary Material / Anna Cardinaletti and Maria Teresa Guasti -- Small Clauses: Some Controversies and Issues of Acquisition / Anna Cardinaletti and Maria Teresa Guasti -- Small Clauses and Copular Constructions / Susan Rothstein -- Small Clauses and Predication / Barry Schein -- The Temporal Interpretation of Predication / Jacqueline Guéron and Teun Hoekstra -- Small Clauses with Predicative Nominals / Andrea Moro -- Small Clauses and Complex Predicates / Heles Contreras -- Specificity, Objects, and Nominal Small Clauses / T. R. Rapoport -- Two Types of Small Clauses (Toward a Syntax of Theme/Rheme Relations) / Eduardo Raposo and Juan Uriagereka -- Participle-based Small Clause Complements of få 'get' in Norwegian / Knut Tarald Taraldsen -- On the Format for Small Clauses / Michal Starke -- Remarks on Clause Structure / Tim Stowell -- French Predicate Clitics and Clause Structure / Dominique Sportiche -- Index / Anna Cardinaletti and Maria Teresa Guasti -- Syntax and Semantics / Anna Cardinaletti and Maria Teresa Guasti.

These previously unpublished articles offer a cross-linguistic perspective on small clauses. They discuss subjects such as the different types of small clauses across languages and lexical items, the internal syntax of small clauses and their structure, and the general topic of the grammar of predication, ranging from a total questioning of the existence of small clauses to claims that they exist in every predication context. The editors' cross-linguistic approach addresses syntactic and lexical issues as well as the relationships between small clauses and language acquisition among children. It surveys the problems raised by small clauses in light of recent developments in the principles and parameter model. The data is drawn from Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish. The contributions share theoretical assumptions about small clauses. The cross-linguistic comparison offers the potential for defining variable and static elements of small clauses, as well as distinguishing ways that they resemble full clauses.

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