Foreword -- Chapter One. Preliminaries -- 1.0. Introduction -- 1.1. The Historical Framework -- 1.2. The Theoretical Framework -- 1.3. Early New High German Infinitival Complement Constructions: An Overview -- 1.4. Distribution of Complementizers -- 1.5. The Corpus -- Chapter Two. Subject Complements -- 2.1. The Structure of Sentences with Infinitival Subject Complements -- 2.2. Subject Complements in the Corpus -- 2.3. Putative Subject-to-Subject Raising Verbs: scheinen, dünken, bedünken -- Chapter Three. The Shared-NP Construction: Surface Structure Subject Equivalent to Deep Structure Direct Object -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Surface Structure Problems -- 3.2. The Surface Structure sein + zu + infinitive -- 3.3. Adverbs and Adjectives in the Surface Structure: sein + A + zu + infinitive -- 3.4. Attributive Adjectives and Nouns -- 3.5. Verbs -- 3.6. Perspective -- Chapter Four. Object Complements -- 4.0. Preliminaries -- 4.1. Two-place Constructions with Bare Infinitive -- 4.2. Two-place Object Complement Constructions with zu + infinitive -- 4.3. The Accusative and Infinitive Construction -- 4.4. Three-place Constructions with Dative NP -- 4.5. Three-place Object Complement Constructions with Accusative NP -- 4.6. Adjectives -- 4.7. Constructions with Coreferential Pronoun -- 4.8. Object Complements which Undergo the Passive Transformation -- 4.9. The Surface Construction: prepositional phrase + zu + infinitive -- Chapter Five. Noun Complements -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. The Early New High German Constructions -- Chapter Six. Summary -- Bibliography.