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In this book Hilda Koopman and Anna Szabolcsi propose a unified analysis of restructuring constructions in Hungarian, Dutch, and German that involves only overt phrasal movement and derives variation from the varying sizes of pied piping constituents. Restructuring verbs in Hungarian exhibit three patterns: the will begin up-climb and the up will begin climb orders common in Dutch and the up-climb begin will order common in German. Traditionally these have been analyzed as involving no movement (or covert movement), phrasal movement, and head movement, respectively. The first goal of this book is to develop a unified analysis where (1) the same features are checked in all three orders, (2) all feature checking is achieved by overt movement, and (3) all three types involve phrasal movement. The second goal is to account for the significant variation across Hungarian, Dutch, and German, which is argued to arise from the varying sizes of the constituents pied piped in the course of movement. In addition to its novel theoretical claims, the book presents the first systematic description of Hungarian complex verbs and the first comparison of West-Germanic and Hungarian. Current Studies in Linguistics No. 34

This paper outlines a semantic approach t o w eak islands, a phenomenon that has traditionally been thought o f as purely syntactic. Weak islands are environments that allow some, but not all, wh-phrases to extract:(1) a. Which man didn't you invite? b. * H o w didn't you behave?(2) a. Which man do you regret that I invited? b. * H o w d o y ou regret that I behaved?We propose that at least in a signi cant set of the cases the violation is semantic in nature. In agreement w i t h E. Kiss (1992) and de Swart (1992), we informally characterize the role of interveners as follows:(3) Weak island violations come about when an extracted phrase should take s c o p e o ver some intervener but is unable to.

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