Introduction&Fuzhen Si 1
Part Ⅰ Theoretical Foundations 9
The Left Periphery:Cartography，Freezing，Labeling&Luigi Rizzi 9
Hierarchies of Features vs.Hierarchies of Projections&Richard Larson 47
Part Ⅱ Cartographic Syntax:Chinese Studies 75
Modal Licensing and Subject Specificity in Mandarin and Taiwan Southern Min:A Cartographic Analysis&Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai＆Ching-Yu Helen Yang＆Seng-hian Lau 75
A Cartographical Account of Prosodic Syntax in Chinese&Shengli Feng 105
Null Subject，Null Topics and Topic Prominence in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond&Waltraud Paul 134
The Postverbal ACQ and its Alethic Modality&Gong Cheng 163
Two Types of Chinese Possessive Structures&Fuzhen Si 197
Optional Projections in the Left-Periphery in Mandarin Chinese&Victor Junnan Pan 218
The Syntax of Negative Questions and Their Answers in Chinese and English&Xuhui Hu 250
On the Syntactic Distribution of Temporal and Aspectual Adverbs in Mandarin Chinese&Han Wu＆Yang Shen 284
Part Ⅲ Cartographic Syntax:Cross-linguistic Studies 303
Variation in English Subject Extraction:The Case of Hyperactive Sub-jects&Liliane Haegeman＆Lieven Danckaert 303
Subjectless Sentences in Conversation and the Defectiveness of Their Syntactic Structures&Akihiko Sakamoto＆Keita Ikarashi 336
Japanese Particle Wa with a Focal Stress Provokes Exhaustive Identifi-cational Focus&Koichiro Nakamura 352
Apparent Omission of Inflectional Endings in Japanese Adjectives&Masaharu Shimada 371
On Defective CPs in Persian&Negin Ilkhanipour and Ali Darzi 386
Syntactic Cartography Plays a Role:Modal Environment in Subordinate Clauses&Takashi Munakata 403
“Complementizers”and the Right Periphery of Japanese&Tomio Hirose＆Hiroyuki Nawata 425