Part I: Diachronic Syntax 1. Agreement Parameters and the Development of English Modal Auxilaries 2. A Computational Approach to Language Learnability and Language Change (with Robin Clark) 3. Object Movement and Verb Movement in Early Modern English 4. Directionality and Word Order Change in the History of English 5. Verb Movement and Markedness 6. Theoretical Consequences (with Anna Roussou) 7. Cascading Parameter Changes: Internally-driven Change in Middle and Early Modern English (with Theresa Biberauer) Part II: Comparative Syntax 8.

Passive Arguments Raised (with Mark Baker & Kyle Johnson) 9. Complex Inversion in French (with Luigi Rizzi) 10. Excorporation and Minimality 11. Two Types of Head Movement in Romance 12. Clause Structure and X-Second (with Anna Carinaletti) 13. The Analysis of VSO Clauses 14. Introduction: Parameters in Minimalist Theory (with Anders Holmberg) 15. Macroparameters and Minimalism: A Programme for Comparative Research.