Krisztina Szécsényi

Restructuring phenomena in German, Swedish and Hungarian

In the linguistic literature Hungarian infinitival clauses are claimed to project a full CP with all the left peripheral projections of a finite clause present, and the very same restrictions on the order of these constituents. However, in certain infinitival structures pointed out in my talk the order of typical left peripheral phrases fails to obey the expected restrictions. Moreover, matrix constituents can mingle with constituents of the infinitival clause which may lead one to suppose a mono-clausal structure. I present data that support a bi-clausal rather than a mono-clausal approach to restructuring. Adopting Hinterhölzl’s (1999, 2006) bi-clausal approach to restructuring and his scope-based analysis of scrambling, an analysis will be proposed that captures the seemingly contradictory properties of the relevant infinitives. Restructuring data from Swedish taken from Wiklund (2006, 2007) give further support for a bi-clausal analisys of restructuring.