Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)

Providing A Study Of Three Salient Phenomena Of West Germanic Namely Scrambling, Remnant Movement And Restructuring, This Book Discusses Their Interrelatedness. In Particular, Restructuring Is Shown To Break Down Into Remnant Movement Of The Major Phases Of The Infinitival Clause. 1. Introduction -- 2. Scrambling -- 3. Coherent Infinitives In Dutch And West Flemish -- 4. Remnant Movement Account Of Restructuring -- 5. Coherent Infinitives In German -- 6. Verbal Complexes And The Syntax Of Ipp-complements -- 7. Open Issues: Extraposition, Vp-topicalization, And The Status Of Gerunds -- 8. Summary And Conclusions. Roland Hinterhölzl. A Revision Of The Author's Thesis (ph.d.)--university Of Southern California, 1999. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 243-250) And Index.