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340 IndexOld English (cont.)and West Germanic languages 33–4wh-movement 271word order 46–53, 139–46, 172–4coordinate clauses 52–3main clauses 49–50NP level 46–8subordinate clauses 50–2uniform clause structure: OV approach147–9; variation between OV and VO150–1; VO approach 149–50VO analysis 154–60Overdiep, G. S. 244, 245Oxford English Dictionary 208parasitic gaps 259–60, 260 n3, 274particles 180–2marking verb position before movementDutch 190–2Old English 192–4Middle English 206–9evidence for V-movement 194–7, 201Middle English 165–6, 201–3, 202t, 203tmaterial between verb and (V . . . part)203–6Old English 185coordinate clauses 188, 188tmain clauses 186–8, 186t, 196tseparated from verb (part . ..V)199–201subordinate clauses 189–90, 189t, 195t,196tword order 140–1, 159, 181and prefixes 182–5universal base hypothesis 197–9, 205,209–10passives 29, 41–2, 77–9, 273–4, 276–83performance 3–4phrasal verbs 180, 180 n1see also particlespied piping 59, 66–7Pintzuk, Susanon verb-particles 189, 194–7, 207on word order 32, 33, 120–3, 128, 147–8,150–1, 165–6, 178Plank, Frans 6poetry 31–3, 69, 147–8Postma, Gertjan 317prefixes 182–5premodals 6–7prepositional objects 29prepositional passives 77–8prepositional verbs 180, 180 n1prepositions 44, 74stranding 59, 64–5Middle English 84–5, 272–4, 276–80Old English 59, 65–7, 141, 158–9, 184,263, 265, 266–7preterite-present verbs 7pretty-class construction 266, 271Principles and Parameters model 2–3, 8–10,13, 17–18, 305pro-drop 38–9, 70–1prototypes 20–1questions 53–4, 83–5Quirk, Randolph et al. 317recipient passives 78–9Reh, Mechthild 290relative clauses 58–61, 91–5Rissanen, Matti 135Rizzi, Luigi 169Roberts, Ian 7–8, 10, 12–13, 16, 134, 154robustness 11–12Rögnvaldsson, Eirikur 112–13Rosch, Eleanor 20Rubba, Jo 290Schmidt, Deborah 133Searle, A. 301sentential negation see negation: sententialSpanish 38, 70Stockwell, Robert P. 173Stoett, Frederik A. 242, 243Stowell, Tim 256subjunctive mood 64subordinate clauses 55–64, 88–103adverbial clauses 63–4, 101–3complement clauses 61–3, 95–101relative clauses 58–61, 91–5Swedish 12, 83, 235symmetric Verb-Second languages 113synchronic variation 17–19, 292, 318–19Taylor, Ann 32, 131–2, 136, 160–1, 174, 178teleology 4–5texts 27, 31–3, 37, 68–9that-clauses 62, 96–7, 159, 211–12, 212t,228t, 232THEME argument 44–6, 74–7theta-criterion 260–1Thráinsson, Höskuldur 112–13, 156Toller, T. N. 182–3, 183, 200