VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN GERMAN AND DUTCH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Verb clusters and the scope of adjuncts in Dutch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dutch cross-serial dependencies in HPSG -- 3. LRS Semantics -- 4. Adjuncts as complements -- 4.1. Syntax -- 4.2. Semantics -- 5. The scope of adjuncts with respect to the matrix verb -- 6. Scrambling of adjuncts and arguments -- 7. A constraint on word order and scope -- 7.1. Multiple adjuncts -- 7.2. Scope of adjuncts and arguments -- 7.3. A semantic constraint on dependency structure -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Chapter 2. Verbal clusters and cluster creepers -- 1. The issue and the gambits -- 1.1. Core examples -- 1.2. Crossing relations -- 1.3. Gambit (9i): Direct compounding -- 1.4. Gambit (9ii): Full argument exodus -- 1.5. Gambit (iii): Full exodus of heads -- 1.6. Conclusion -- 2. Stress assignment -- 2.1. Grammatical distinctions for metrical trees -- 2.2. X0 heads and XP phrases -- 3. The mechanics of head raising -- 3.1. An option between V0 heads -- 3.2. Predicate licensing and the Extended Projection Principle -- 4. Extensions -- 4.1. The past participle as a cluster creeper -- 4.2. The VP raising -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3. V-clustering and clause union -- 1. Overview: Descriptive generalizations and their theoretical implications -- 2. A descriptive survey of V-clustering and clause union in German -- 2.1. The structure of the clusters -- 2.2. Comparison of German and Dutch VCs, especially with respect to IPP -- 3. Towards an empirically adequate modeling of the clustering phenomena -- 3.1. Deriving the Dutch cluster - left-adjunction and/or cliticization to the right -- 3.2. The German cluster structure and IPP inversion -- 3.3. The grammatical causality of clustering.

4. Grammar-theoretical afterthoughts -- Notes -- Chapter 4. West-Germanic verb clusters in LFG -- 1. Introduction -- 2. West Germanic Infinitival Complements as described in ZK: Dutch -- 3. Variation in the order of verbal elements in Dutch -- 3.1. Properties of verbs taking non-tensed verbal complements -- Verbal complements: Morphological distinctions -- Verbal complements: Functional distinctions -- Verbal complements: C-structure distinctions -- 3.2. Restrictions within the verbal cluster -- Morphological restriction: Infinitivus pro participio -- Ordering constraints in the verb cluster -- Summary: An LFG analysis of Dutch verb clusters -- 4. Prolegomena to a treatment of German verb clusters -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Subjects in unexpected places and the notion of "predicate'' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Valence in the verb cluster -- 3. Remarks on linear order -- 4. Fronted (partial) VPs -- 5. Subjects in fronted phrases -- 5.1. Semantic restrictions on fronted verbal projections -- 5.2. The locality of phrase-internal subjects -- 5.3. Raising spirits -- 6. Argument sharing and periphrastic predicates -- 6.1. Valence vs. argument structure -- 6.2. Predicates -- 6.3. Valence increasing environments -- 6.4. An exceptional construction -- 7. Summary and final remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 6. Dutch and German verb constructions in Performance Grammar -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Essentials of Performance Grammar -- 1.1. Hierarchical structures in Performance Grammar -- 1.2. Linear structure in PG -- 2. Dutch verb constructions -- 3. German verb constructions -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Chapter 7. Coherent constructions in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tree Adjoining Grammar -- 3. Coherence and clause union: The incorporation approach -- 3.1. Coherent constructions -- 3.2. Clause union: An incorporation analysis.

3.3. Tree Adjoining Grammar and lexicalism -- 4. Arguments against clause union -- 4.1. Is clause union necessary? -- 4.2. Is clause union sufficient? -- 5. Coherence and tree rewriting: The syntactic approach -- 5.1. A formalism for (relatively) free word order -- 5.2. DSG as a metalanguage for syntax -- 5.3. Deriving coherent and incoherent constructions -- 5.4. Accounting for the data -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Verb clusters and branching directionality in German and Dutch -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Semantic Syntax model -- 1.1. General architecture -- 1.2. Branching directionality -- 1.3. The Auxiliary System -- 1.4. Complementation types -- 2. The rule system and some examples -- 3. Matrix Greed -- 4. Dutch V-clusters -- 4.1. Optional and obligatory PR -- 4.2. The Third Construction -- 4.3. Directionality -- 4.4. Creeping -- 4.5. Non-verbal (pseudo)complements -- 5. German V-clusters -- 6. The data problem (with special reference to German) -- 7. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) series.