A collection of articles presenting generative analyses dealing with topics in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, and movement. Data used is drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages - Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, and Greek.

1. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 2. Typological Implications of a directionality constraint on projections (by Haider, Hubert); 3. Universal Grammar and the Typology of Ergative Languages (by Mahajan, Anoop K.); 4. Some Properties of Ellipsis in Coordination (by Wilder, Chris); 5. Deriving the Parametrisation of the Mapping Hypothesis (by Adger, David); 6. Syntactic Dependencies and their properties: weak islands (by Manzini, Maria Rita); 7. On Extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy (by Law, Paul); 8. Universals and Minimalist Features (by Gelderen, Elly van); 9. Genitive Subjects and the VSO Order (by Ouhalla, Jamal); 10. Some Properties of Clitics (with special reference to Modern Greek) (by Drachman, Gaberell)