Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Basic Observations -- 1.2 The Basic Syntactic Phenomena of West Germanic -- 1.3 Coherent Infinitives -- 1.4 Remnant Movement -- 1.5 Theoretical Assumptions -- 2. Scrambling -- 2.1 The Grammatical Nature of Scrambling -- 2.2 The Properties of Scrambling in German -- 2.3 Scrambling and Optional Movement -- 2.4 The Trigger Problem -- 2.5 Coping with Optionality -- 2.6 Feature Checking and Scope -- 2.7 Addressing Vikner's Problem -- 2.8 Conclusions -- 3. Coherent Infinitives in Dutch and West Flemish -- 3.1 Coherent Infinitives in Dutch -- 3.2 Coherent Infinitives in West Flemish -- 3.3 Conclusions -- 4. A Remnant Movement Account of Restructuring -- 4.1 The Verb-Final Position in Infinitives -- 4.2 Evidence for Licensing Movement out of the VP -- 4.3 An XP-Movement Account of Restructuring -- 4.4 Toward a Theory of Sentential Complementation -- 5. Coherent Infinitives in German -- 5.1 Evidence for Biclausality -- 5.2 Verbs That Take To-Infinitives as Complements -- 5.3 The Idiosyncractic Properties of Coherent To-Infinitives -- 5.4 A Biclausal Account of Coherent To-Infinitives -- 5.5 Explaining the Properties of Coherent To-Infinitives -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 6. Verbal Complexes and the Syntax of IPP-Complements -- 6.1 Left-Branching Verb Clusters in German -- 6.2 The Syntax of IPP-Constructions -- 6.3 Right-Branching Verb Clusters in German -- 6.4 Overview of the Structure of Verb Clusters -- 7. Open Issues: Extraposition, VP-Topicalization, and the Status of Gerunds -- 7.1 Verbal Complexes and the Distribution of CP-Complements -- 7.2 Topicalization of Verb Projections -- 7.3 Toward a Movement Account of VP-Topicalization -- 7.4 The Status of the Gerund -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 8. Summary and Conclusions -- 8.1 Scrambling and Optionality -- 8.2 A VO-Based Account of Verb Raising and Verb Projection Raising.

8.3 Coherent Infinitives in German and the Issue of Monoclausality -- 8.4 The IPP-Effect and the Unified Account of Verb Clusters in West Germanic -- 8.5 Extraposition, VP-Topicalization, and the Status of Gerunds -- 8.6 The Connection between Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.