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Part 1 Introduction: economy and the minimalist programme; outline.Part 2 Selection and the categorical status of infinitival complements:introduction; infinitival complementation and c-selection; economy andthe categorical status of clauses; other recent accounts of infinitivalcomplementation; conclusion. Part 3 "Wager"-class verbs and Frenchpropositional infinitivals: introduction; infinitival complementationand "wager"-class verbs - the agentive hypothesis; "wh"-extraction outof "wager"-class infinitivals; infinitival complementation in French.Part 4 Existential constructions, a-movement and infinitivalcomplementation: introduction; existential constructions and theexpletive replacement hypothesis; infinitival complementation andexistential constructions; more on greed - ECM constructions;constraints affecting a-movement and a-positions; conclusion. Part 5Participle movement: introduction; participle movement inSerbo-Croatian; participle movement in standard Dutch; participlemovement in Polish; conclusion.