Ebook: Remnant Movement
Author: Günther Grewendorf
- Genre: Linguistics // Comparative Studies
- Tags: Grammar Comparative and general -- Syntax. Syntaxe. Generative grammar. Grammaire générative.
- Series: Studies in Generative Grammar SGG.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- City: Berlin
- Language: English
- epub
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.