Language, Syntax, and the Natural Sciences

Introduction A¿ngel J Gallego and Roger Martin; Part I The Computational Component: 1 Deriving multiple 'object' constructions Tonia Bleam and Norbert Hornstein; 2 Verbal complex formation and overt subjects in infinitival complexes in Romance Francisco Ordonez; 3 Two families of questions Howard Lasnik; 4 Context sensitive aspects of constituent negation Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria; 5 Phasehood and Romance adverbial because-clauses Esther Torrego; 6 No-choice parameters, phi-features and the structure of DP Ian Roberts; Part II Interfaces: 7 Linearizing chains at LF Jairo Nunes; 8 On the rationality of grammar Wolfram Hinzen; 9 The warped forge Pablo Bustos and Juan Romero; 10 Limiting semantic types Paul Pietroski; 11 Why is phonology different? No recursion William Idsardi; 12 Nothing in linguistics makes sense except in the light of change David Lightfoot; 13 Neurology and experience: the language organ and externalization Carlos P Otero; Part III Linguistics and Other Sciences: 14 My head's in knots: on Uriagereka's generalization and the knot-sentence connection Sergio Balari, Antonio Benitez-Burraco, Marta Camps, Victor M Longa and Guillermo Lorenzo; 15 (Neural) syntax Cedric Boeckx and Constantina Theofanopoulou; 16 Syntax and uncertainty Douglas Saddy; 17 The Golden phrase: steps to the physics of language Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and David Medeiros; 18 Science, mind, and limits of understanding Noam Chomsky