Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Phases and interpretation -- Chapter 1 - Interpretation and structural -- conditions -- Grafts follow from merge -- An interpretive effect of head movement -- When we do that and when we don t: A contrastive -- analysis of VP ellipsis and VP anaphora -- Chapter 2 - Interpretation in the DP-phase -- HAVE = BE + PREP(osition): New evidence for the -- preposition incorporation analysis of clausal possession -- Northern Norwegian degree questions and the syntax -- of measurement -- Parallels in clausal and nominal periphery -- Chapter 3 - Functional projections in the -- vP-phase -- The properties of anticausatives -- crosslinguistically -- Number agreement and event pluralization: A case -- study -- The Phase Condition and cyclic Spell-out: Evidence -- from VP-topicalization -- Parallel phases: a study on the high and low left -- periphery of Old Italian -- Chapter 4 - The CP-phase and Subject -- Licensing -- Obviation in subjunctive argument clauses and the -- first-personal interpretation -- Who is lui? Reference of Italian overt and covert -- subject pronouns -- Satisfying the Subject Criterion by a non subject: -- English Locative Inversion and Heavy NP Shift -- Informational focus in Sicilian and the left -- periphery -- Backmatter