... domain put their dependents in a com-mon pot. In other words, there is no scram-bling in German, or more precisely, there is noadvantage in assuming an operation that de-rives ‘scrambled’ sentences ... of communi-cative type: In (2a), the fact of reading thebook is marked (as in Reading the book, no-body promised him that), whereas (2b) is neu-tral in this respect (Nobody promised him toread ... suffices to explainthe cases of ‘double flip’ as in (4b) givingV1V2V4V3). Note that the dependent of haben‘have’ is the bare infinitive. This form, calledthe Ersatzinfinitiv, is also possible...