ABSTRACT
This chapter is devoted specifically to the formation and the syntactic behavior of verb clusters. Verb clustering may occur in cases in which a main or a non-main verb takes a non-finite verbal projection as its °complement, that is, a phrase headed by a past/passive participle (from now on: participle phrase), a te-infinitive (te-infinitival), or a bare infinitive (bare infinitival). Some issues in this chapter are discussed in greater detail in the course of Section 5.2 and Chapter 6, but since verb clustering is one of the main issues in the scientific discussion of Dutch (and German) syntax, we assume that readers will welcome a more concise discussion that is more specifically focused on this topic.
