i-iv -- Content -- Theoretical developments of the left periphery -- The syntactic integration of preposed adverbial clauses on the German left periphery: A diachronic perspective -- Decomposing the left periphery. Dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence -- Head-movement in minimalism, and V2 as FORCE-marking -- In front of the prefield - inside or outside the clause? -- Uniformity and variation: On the relation of wh-phrases and sentence mood in German -- Notes on the syntax and the pragmatics of German Left Dislocation -- Inflectional morphology and sentence mood in German -- ET, parasitic gaps, and German clause structure -- Verb position, verbal mood and the anchoring (potential) of sentences -- Nonstandard wh-questions and alternative checkers in Pagotto -- The particle li and the left periphery of Slavic yes/no interrogatives -- Binding by verbs: Tense, person, and mood under attitudes -- Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German -- Index