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'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic 'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect to extraction of their internal arguments; the existence of a less 'liberal' type of 'Scrambling' within topicalised VPs; the link between reordering possibilities and headfinalness; the asymmetry exhibited by monotransitive and ditransitive structures with respect to the interaction between 'Scrambling' and the unmarked word order, and, finally, certain anomalies in the reordering of the lower arguments of ditransitive predicates that assign inherent case.

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1. Preface
2. Chapter 1: Scrambling: A crosslinguistic perspective
3. 1. Scrambling languages
4. 2. Types of scrambling
5. 3. Scrambling in the Germanic languages
6. Chapter 2: A survey of some basic properties of German
7. 1. The structure of the German clause
8. 2. Coherent infinitival constructions
9. 3. Remnant movement
10. 4. The German pronominal system
11. 5. Focus scrambling
12. Chapter 3: Scrambling in German
13. 1. German scrambling in rough syntax
14. 1.1 The iterability of German scrambling
15. 1.2 Scrambling within VP
16. 1.3 Scrambling within other projections
17. 1.4 Some preliminary conclusions about scrambable constituents
18. 1.5 The clause-boundedness of scrambling and the syntactic position of scrambled constituents
19. 1.6 'Island effects'
20. 2. German scrambling at the interfaces
21. 2.1 Phonological properties of scrambled elements
22. 2.2 Semantic/pragmatic properties of scrambled elements
23. 2.3 Tying the phonological and semantic/pragmatic constraints
24. Chapter 4: Previous accounts of German scrambling
25. 1. Movement approaches
26. 1.1 Scrambling as 'move alpha' ('government and binding')
27. 1.2 Scrambling as 'move' (the 'minimalist program')
28. 2. Base-generation approaches
29. 2.1 Base-generation, theta-role assignment, and case-checking at PF
30. 2.2 Base-generation, theta-role assignment, and case-checking at LF
31. 3. Conclusions
32. Chapter 5: The phonological side of reordering processes
33. 1. The phonological side of Scandinavian 'object shift'
34. 1.1 Scandinavian 'object shift' from a descriptive perspective
35. 1.2 Scandinavian 'object shift' in 'stylistic syntax'
36. 1.3 Scandinavian 'object shift' in 'narrow syntax'
37. 2. The phonological side of German scrambling
38. 2.1 Evidence for DISL
39. 2.2 Is German scrambling sensitive to 'phonological borders'?
40. Chapter 6: Conclusions, problems, and pending issues
41. Notes
42. References
43. Subject Index

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