Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster

"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.

Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. List of works (1971-2010) by Jan Koster; 3. Unaccusative verbs in Chinese: Derivation in the lexicon or in syntax? (by Abraham, Werner); 4. Gapping is always forward (by Ackema, Peter); 5. Focus particle doubling (by Barbiers, Sjef); 6. Wh-drop and recoverability (by Bayer, Josef); 7. Two futures in infinitives (by Beek, Janneke ter); 8. A dynamic perspective on inflection (by Bennis, Hans); 9. Is there "preposition stranding in COMP" in Afrikaans? No way! (by Besten, Hans den); 10. Restructuring verbs and the structure of Spanish clauses (by Bok-Bennema, Reineke); 11. Cantonese as a tense second language (by Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen); 12. On a selective "violation" of the Complex NP Constraint (by Cinque, Guglielmo); 13. Dressed numerals and the structure of Universal Numeric Quantifiers (by Corver, Norbert); 14. Embedded inversion and successive cyclicity (by Dikken, Marcel den); 15. Little words don't lie: X' have initial X0 (by Emonds, Joseph E.); 16. Repairing head-to-head movement (by Evers, Arnold Ernest); 17. On the duality of patterning (by Fortuny, Jordi); 18. Reflexive cartography (by Gelderen, Elly van); 19. What does eye-tracking reveal about children's knowledge of linguistic structure? (by Hendriks, Petra); 20. Depictives and the word orders of English and Dutch (by Heringa, Herman); 21. Feature percolation in the Dutch possessive (by Hoeksema, Jack); 22. On the interruption of Verb-Raising clusters by nonverbal material (by Hoekstra, Eric); 23. Referring to yourself in self-talk (by Holmberg, Anders); 24. Case-Agreement: Diptotic evidence in construct state noun phrases (by Huybregts, Riny); 25. Syntactic predictions in second-language sentence processing (by Kaan, Edith); 26. Notes on French and English demonstratives (by Kayne, Richard S.); 27. The accusative infinitive in Latin, English and Dutch (by Klein, Maarten); 28. Identifying in Dutch (by Klooster, Wim); 29. What you (and God) only know (by Kluck, Marlies); 30. Is agreement resolution part of core grammar? (by Koeneman, Olaf); 31. On Dutch allemaal and West Ulster English all (by Koopman, Hilda); 32. The universality of binding principles: How appearances are deceptive (by Reuland, Eric J.); 33. Grappling with graft (by Riemsdijk, Henk van); 34. Game Theory and the control of empty categories in grammar (by Roeper, Thomas); 35. Copy what? (by Schippers, Ankelien); 36. Free relatives at the interface (by Simik, Radek); 37. Menace under the microscope: The two verbs menacer and the theory of control (by Sportiche, Dominique); 38. Case-alignment and verb placement (by Taraldsen, Knut Tarald); 39. Diminutive Ks?: A discussion of some Russian data (by Toman, Jindrich); 40. Don't forget the determiners, Jan (by Verkuyl, Henk J.); 41. Empty subjects and empty objects (by Vries, Mark de); 42. Island Fever (by Williams, Edwin); 43. Something else on variables in syntax (by Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter); 44. Language index; 45. Name index; 46. Subject index