Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Alternatives to cartography: an introduction -- A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast -- Focus, topic, and word order: A compositional view -- A focus-binding conspiracy. Left-to-right merge, scrambling and binary structure in European Portuguese -- Phases and variation: Exploring the second factor of the faculty of language -- Varieties of INFL: TENSE, LOCATION, and PERSON -- CAT meets GO: Auxiliary inversion in German verb clusters -- A solution to the conceptual problem of cartography -- Adjective placement and linearization -- Some implications of improper movement for cartography -- There is no alternative to cartography -- Backmatter