Scrambling, remnant movement, and restructuring in west Germanic
By: Roland Hinterhölzl.
Series: Oxford studies in comparative syntax
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780195308204; 9780195308211
Subjects: Germanic languages -- Syntax; Germanic languages -- Verb
Description: 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.
Notes: A revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.