Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The function of Functional Categories -- Control in GB and Minimalism -- Ergativity -- When verb phrases go missing -- Topic and focus -- Recent research on the acquisition of L2 competence -- Model Theoretic Syntax -- The rise of Optimality Theory -- Acquisition of phonology -- Tone -- The phonology-morphology interface -- Metrical phonology -- Generative metrics -- One phonology or two? -- Semantic change -- Affiliations and addresses