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Aims to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase) and CP (Complementizer Phrase). This book is useful for scholars with an interest in Italian and Romance languages and also for linguists interested in contemporary research in generative grammar.

This is the first linguistic study written within the Principles and Parameters framework to deal with the Slavic languages. Franks develops parametric solutions to related constructions among those languages. The book can serve both as an introduction to Government and Binding (GB) Theory for Slavic linguists as well as an introduction to Slavic languages for scholars of syntax.

This is a collection of (mostly) previously unpublished papers that examine function heads using the Principles and Parameters approach. The main theoretical focus is on the general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures and their parametrization.