Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb

The book "Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb" by Johannes Hein offers a comprehensive examination of repair strategies in verbal fronting, verb doubling, and the use of auxiliary verbs. It is the first comparative study addressing these phenomena in 47 different languages, including newly collected data from two African languages. The monograph meticulously documents the characteristics of verbal fronting and presents two novel typological generalizations that explore the interactions between the size of the fronted category and the repair strategies employed. Furthermore, a new theoretical approach within the Copy Theory of the Minimalist Framework is developed, addressing the shortcomings of previous theories. This work is thus a valuable resource for linguists and language scholars engaged in the complex mechanisms of verb structure and its variations across different languages.