Frontmatter -- Contents -- Exploring the concepts of Freezing: Theoretical and empirical perspectives -- Part I: Theoretical advancement -- Criterial Freezing in small clauses and the cartography of copular constructions -- Freezing Effects in a free-Merge System -- Freezing in complex prefields -- Part II: Empirical domains -- The Freezing points of the (Dutch) adjectival system -- Freezing in it-clefts: Movement and focus -- Criterial Freezing in the syntax of particles -- Only syntax -- Freezing and phi-feature agreement: On the role of [PERSON] -- Freezing, Topic Opacity and Phase-based Cyclicity in Subject Islands -- Part III: Interface extensions -- Freezing: Between grammar and processing -- Heavy NP shift in context: On the interaction of information structure and subextraction from shifted constituents -- Freezing as a probabilistic phenomenon -- An experimental study on freezing and topicalization in English -- Index