1. Tables and Figures; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Contributors; 4. Introduction (by Clahsen, Harald); 5. The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation (by Harris, Tony); 6. Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition (by Radford, Andrew); 7. The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar (by Hyams, Nina); 8. Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development (by Clahsen, Harald); 9. Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy: On the Acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German (by Penner, Zvi); 10. Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque (by Meisel, Jurgen M.); 11. Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives (by Guasti, Maria Teresa); 12. Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures (by Haegeman, Liliane); 13. On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French (by Hamann, Cornelia); 14. Clitics in L2 French (by White, Lydia); 15. The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition (by Platzack, Christer); 16. The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition (by Roeper, Thomas); 17. How, Hang on a Minute: Some reflections on emerging orthodoxies (by Atkinson, Martin); 18. Index of Names; 19. Index of Subjects