Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language‎.‎ The approach arranges a language‎'‎s morpho‎-syntactic features in a rigid universal hierarchy‎,‎ and its research agenda is to describe this hierarchy ‎- that is‎,‎ to draw maps of syntactic configurations‎.‎ Current work in cartography is both empirical ‎- extending the approach to new languages and new structures ‎- and theoretical‎.‎ The 16 articles in this collection will advance both dimensions‎.‎ They arise from presentations made at the Syntactic Cartography‎:‎ Where do we go from here‎?‎ colloquium held at the University of Geneva in June of 2012 and address three questions at the core of research in syntactic cartography‎:‎ 1‎.‎ Where do the contents of functional structure come from‎?‎ 2‎.‎ What explains the particular order or hierarchy in which they appear‎?‎ 3‎.‎ What are the computational restrictions on the activation of functional categories‎?‎ Grouped thematically into four sections‎,‎ the articles address these questions through comparative studies across various languages‎,‎ such as Italian‎,‎ Old Italian‎,‎ Hungarian‎,‎ English‎,‎ Jamaican Creole‎,‎ Japanese‎,‎ and Chinese‎,‎ among others‎.‎