1. Contributors; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Abbreviations; 4. Introduction: When verbs come first (by Carnie, Andrew); 5. Part I. VP movement vs Head-movement; 6. What fronts?: On the VP-raising account of verb-initial order (by Chung, Sandra); 7. Coordination and constituency in St'at'imcets (Lillooet Salish) (by Davis, Henry); 8. Two derivations of VSO: A comparative study of Niuean and Tongan (by Otsuka, Yuko); 9. Force first: Clause-fronting and clause typing in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec (by Lee, Felicia); 10. V1 and wh-questions: a typology (by Oda, Kenji); 11. Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages (by Bury, Dirk); 12. A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax (by McCloskey, James); 13. Seediq: Antisymmetry and final particles in a Formosan VOS language (by Holmer, Arthur); 14. VP-internal structure in a VOS language (by Travis, Lisa deMena); 15. Part II. Categories, Information Structure, and Prosodic factors; 16. Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate-fronting in Niuean (by Massam, Diane); 17. Word order without syntactic categories: How Riau Indonesian does it (by Gil, David); 18. Nominal properties of vPs in Breton: A hypothesis for the typology of VSO languages (by Jouitteau, Melanie); 19. On the parallelism of DPs and clauses: Evidence from Kisongo Maasai (by Koopman, Hilda); 20. Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog: a unified analysis? (by Billings, Loren); 21. The syntax of Chalcatongo Mixtec: Preverbal and postverbal (by Macaulay, Monica); 22. Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language (by Laughren, Mary); 23. References; 24. Index