Richard S. Kayne is Silver Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He received an A.B. in mathematics from Columbia College and a Ph.D in linguistics from M.I.T. He subsequently taught at the University of Paris VIII, at M.I.T., and at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has three honorary degrees and has previously published four collections of papers and two other books.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Section A. Comparative SyntaxChapter 1 More Languages Than We Might Have Thought. Fewer Languages Than There Might Have BeenChapter 2 Comparative SyntaxChapter 3 Comparative Syntax and English Is ToChapter 4 Having Need and Needing Have (with Stephanie Harves) Section B. Silent ElementsChapter 5 The Silence of HeadsChapter 6 A Note on Some Even More Unusual Relative ClausesChapter 7 The Unicity of There and the Definiteness EffectChapter 8 Notes on French and English Demonstratives (with Jean-Yves Pollock)Chapter 9 Some Thoughts on One and Two and Other NumeralsChapter 10 English One and Ones as Complex DeterminersChapter 11 Once and TwiceChapter 12 A Note on Grand and its Silent Entourage Section C. Ordering and DoublingChapter 13 Why Are There No Directionality Parameters?Chapter 14 Toward a Syntactic Reinterpretation of Harris and Halle (2005)Chapter 15 Locality and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion (with Jean-Yves Pollock)Chapter 16 Clitic Doubling and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion BibliographyIndex

A new essay by Richard Kayne is invariably an exciting moment for students of language. Each is a gem, scrupulously executed, with challenging insights. This collection is a landmark contribution by a scholar with unique achievements and impact on the discipline.