Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-482) and indexes.
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1. Introduction. 1.1. A processing approach to syntax. 1.2. Some proposed processing explanations for grammar. 1.3. Some problems for processing explanations. 1.4. The approach of the present book. 1.5. Towards a theory of language universals -- 2. The gramaticalization of processing principles. 2.1. How is a processing principle expressed in a grammar? 2.2. A theory of structural complexity. 2.3. Complexity predictions for grammatical variation across languages. 2.4. Structural Domains and their semantic correlates -- 3. Early immediate constituents. 3.1. The basic idea. 3.2. Some principles of parsing. 3.3. Some preliminary evidence for EIC. 3.4. Defining and measuring EIC. 3.5. EIC predictions for performance. 3.6. EIC predictions for the grammar. 3.7. EIC's predictions for typologically different structures. 3.8. The relationship of EIC to other principles -- 4. Testing EIC's performance predictions. 4.1. Arrangements of free word orders in multiple branching structures.