Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. His most recent publications include Syntactic Variation in Minimalist Syntax, with Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg and Michelle Sheehan (2010) and Agreement and Head Movement (2010).

• Part I: Diachronic Syntax1. Agreement Parameters and the Development of English Modal Auxilaries2. 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 Markedness6. Theoretical Consequences (with Anna Roussou)7. Cascading Parameter Changes: Internally-driven Change in Middle and Early Modern English (with Theresa Biberauer)Part II: Comparative Syntax8. 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 Clauses14. Introduction: Parameters in Minimalist Theory (with Anders Holmberg)15. Macroparameters and Minimalism: A Programme for Comparative Research