The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as the source of cross-linguistic variation. They cover a wide range of empirical phenomena across languages such as locality, deletion, verb classes, XP-split constructions, uantifier Raising, the EPP, the Person Case Constraint etc. Some of the articles pay particular attention to the organization of the grammar, the type of operations that are effective, the role of features in determining variation, and primitive notions of phrase-structure (c-command, Agree etc.). Others show how structural differences capture semantic and morphological differences within a language and across languages, and how these are the ultimate source of linguistic variation. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and linguistic variation.Table of ContentsList of contributors vii Introduction Artemis Alexiadou 1 Universal features and language-particular morphemes Maya Arad 15 Agree or attract? A relativized minimality solution to a proper binding condition puzzle Cedric Boeckx 41 Distributed deletion Gisbert Fanselow and Damir Cavar 65 Roots, constituents, and c-command Robert Frank, Paul Hagstrom and Vijay K. Shanker 109 A four-way classification of monadic verbs Murat Kural 139 On agreement: locality and feature valuation Luis López 165 A minimalist account of conflation processes: Parametric variation at the lexicon-syntax interface Jaume Mateu and Gemma Rigau 211 Morphological constraints on syntactic derivations Juan Romero 237 Intermediate traces, reconstruction and locality effects Joachim Sabel 259 Index 315