Mark Baltin & Chris Collins 
The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory [PDF ebook] 

Contributors.
Introduction.
Part I: Derivation Versus Representation:.
1. Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition: Joan Bresnan
(Stanford University).
2. Economy Conditions in Syntax: Chris Collins (Cornell
University).
3. Derivation and Representation in Modern Transformational
Syntax: Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut).
4. Relativized Minimality Effects: Luigi Rizzi (Université
de Geneve).
Part II: Movement:.
5. Head Movement: Ian Roberts (University of Stuttgart).
6. Object Shift and Scrambling: Höskuldur Thráinsson
(University of Iceland).
7. Wh-in-situ Languages: Akira Watanabe (University of
Tokyo).
8. A-Movements: Mark Baltin (New York University).
Part III: Argument Structure and Phrase Structure:.
9. Thematic Relations in Syntax: Jeffrey S. Gruber (independent
scholar).
10. Predication: John Bowers (Cornell University).
11. Case: Hiroyuki Ura.
12. Phrase Structure: Naoki Fukui (University of
California).
13. The Natures of Nonconfigurationality: Mark C. Baker (Mc Gill
University).
14. What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can’t, but not
Why: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).
Part IV: Functional Projections:.
15. Agreement Projections: Adriana Belletti (Universitá di
Siena).
16. Sentential Negation: Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown
University).
17. The DP Hypothesis: Identifying Clausal Properties in the
Nominal Domain: Judy B. Bernstein (Syracuse University).
18. The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters and
Problems: Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste).
Part V: Interface With Interpretation:.
19. The Syntax of Scope: Anna Szabolcsi (New York
University).
20. Deconstructing Binding: Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert
(both Utrecht Institute of Linguistics).
21. Syntactic Reconstruction Effects: Andrew Barss (University
of Arizona).
Part VI: External Evaluation of Syntax:.
22. Syntactic Change: Anthony S. Kroch (University of
Pennsylvania).
23. Setting Syntactic Parameters: Janet Dean Fodor (City
University of New York).
Bibliography.
Index.

Mark Baltin is Professor of Linguistics at New York
University where he has been teaching since receiving his Ph.D.
from MIT in 1978. He has published widely on movement and ellipsis,
and served on the NSF Advisory Panel for Linguistics from 1996 to
1999. He is the editor, with Anthony S. Kroch, of Alternative
Conceptions of Phrase-Structure (1989).
Chris Collins served in the Peace Corps before enrolling
in MIT’s graduate program in linguistics. He is currently Assistant
Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University and has published
widely in the syntax of various African languages and general
syntactic theory. He is the author of Local Economy
(1997).