Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic

This book provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of the West Germanic language group, namely scrambling, remnant movement, and restructuring, and the discussion of their interrelatedness. It shows that scrambling cannot be taken to create the remnant categories necessary for VP-topicalization and the formation of verb clusters in restructuring infinites. Instead, it argues that remnant categories are created by licensing movement and that restructuring involves remnant movement of large portions of the infinitival clause.