Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages (Linguistik Aktuell/ Linguistics Today)

This volume presents a detailed analysis of West Germanic scrambling from the perspective of recent versions of the ‘Minimalist Program’, especially the one advanced in Chomsky’s (2001). It refutes the commonly held view that
scrambled structures in West Germanic languages are the result of a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’.