Language acquisitions - schemas replace universal grammar, Michael A.Arbib and Jane C.Hill

The "no negative evidence" problem - how do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar?, Melissa Bowerman. Max-Planck Institut fur Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen.

Part 3 Semantic and Pragmatic Explanations: on semantics and the binding theory, Edward L.Keenan

Concessive connecitves and concessive sentences - cross-linguistic regularities and pragmatic principles, Ekkehard Konig

A discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category "adjective", Sandra A.Thompson

Coreference and conjunction reduction in grammar and discourse, Bernard Comrie.

Part 4 Cognitive, Perceptual and processing explanations: language, perception and the world, Michael Lee

Parameterizing the language processing system - left-vs. right-branching within and across languages, Lyn Frazier and Keith Rayner

Psycholinguistic factors in morphological asymmetry, John A.Hawkins, and Anne Cutler.

Part 5 the diachronic dimension: integrating diachronic and processing principles in explaining the suffixing preference, Christopher J.Hall

The diachronic dimension in explanation, Joan L.Bybee.

This book is a state-of-the-art vollume which brings together all of these different views. The contributors have each benn asked to offer some general explanation for which they see evidence, and to provide illustrative universal data supporting it.