Download or read book Scrambling and Barriers written by Günther Grewendorf and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed are: the movement vs the base structure approach to scrambling, the correlation between the possibility of scrambling and certain infinitive structures, scrambling and ergativity, barriers and domains for scrambling.