I-VI -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's academic biography -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Categories and feature inventories of Universal Grammar -- Chapter 2. Subcategorization: Syntax as the material basis of semantics -- Chapter 3. Subcategorization inside words: Morphology as grammatical compounding -- Chapter 4. Multi-level lexical insertion: Explaining Inflection and Derivation -- Chapter 5. Passive syntactic structures -- Chapter 6. The genesis of flat structures: Linking verbs, "light" verbs and "restructuring" -- Appendix to chapter 6. Causative and perception verb "clause union" -- Chapter 7. Subcategorization across syntactic empty heads -- Chapter 8. The restricted complement space of lexical frames -- Chapter 9. Licensing and identification of null complements -- Chapter 10. Understood subjects: Generalizing Pro -- Summary of principles -- Sample Lexicon -- References -- Subject Index