Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction I -- Minimalism: Why it is not 'the end of syntax' -- The base structure of the German clause under discourse functional weight: contentful functional categories vs. derivative functional categories -- Word order in English: old problems and new answers -- Inflection and movement in Old English -- Projective Economy -- Transitive expletive constructions and the evidence supporting the Multiple Specifier Hypothesis -- Introduction II -- The Minimalist Program -- Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling -- Pronouns and the left periphery of West Germanic embedded clauses -- Agreement and case matching in noun phrases in German -- Deriving conjoined XPs: a minimal deletion approach -- Introduction III -- Word order and language acquisition - Kayne's universal directionality restriction -- The Initial Hypothesis of syntax: A Minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition -- The acquisition of German and the "Initial Hypothesis of Syntax": A reply to Platzack -- Addresses of authors -- General index of subjects