Reviewed by Mireia Marimon

The present volume offers a broad perspective of the current state of affairs in the matter of syntactic variation within the Minimalist theory (cf. Chomsky 1995) and presents different current theories and perspectives about the intricacies of this old and ever-present matter. This is certainly the aim of this volume, which is accomplished in a more than satisfactory fashion. As might be expected, all authors that contribute to this volume have a main common goal behind (which is perceivable and obvious): to understand how language is organized, how it works, and how variation and linguistic phenomena operate. Following this line of action, the central topics that are discussed in this volume can be listed as follows: (i) The notion and the role of “Parameters ” in the current linguistic theories (ii) Connections between morphology, variation, and the lexicon (iii) The explicitness and the conditions imposed by the syntactic component and the interfaces it is connected to Even though these are the main topics that all authors try to focus on, it is hard just to address the issue of syntactic variation. Since a lot of questions aris