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Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement are identified that pose severe problems for a representational movement theory. It is argued that these properties can be fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky's minimalist program, and that they follow from a derivational movement theory that incorporates the Barriers Condition, the Strict Cycle Condition, Fewest Steps, Last Resort, and the Minimal Link Condition but completely dispenses with surface filters. Incomplete Category Fronting provides an empirical underpinning for the minimalist program and presents a powerful argument for a derivational theory of grammar.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Minimaliste [Théorie ] (Linguistique) --- Minimalistische theorie (Taalwetenschap) --- Principes en parameters (Taalwetenschap) --- Principes et paramètres (Linguistique) --- Principles and parameters (Linguistics) --- German language --- Syntax. --- Word order. --- Verb phrase. --- Grammar, Generative. --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Principles and parameters (Linguistics). --- Syntax --- Word order --- Verb phrase --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics. --- Semantics. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- German language - Syntax. --- German language - Word order. --- German language - Verb phrase. --- German language - Grammar, Generative.