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Download or read book Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic written by Roland Hinterholzl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hinterhölzl provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of West Germaic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness. In particular, restructuring is shown to break down into remnant movement of the major phases of the infinitival clause, accounting for the formation of verb clusters and the transparency of restructuring infinitives.