IPP and the Structure of Participles

The Infinitivus Pro Participio (IPP) effect involves the appearance of an infinitive where one would normally expect a participle.1 An example is given in (1). (1) dat Jan het boek heeft willen/*gewild kopen, that Jan the book has want/wanted buy 'that Jan has wanted to buy the book.' The effect is found whenever the participle itself has an infinitival complement (with or without to) that has undergone verb raising, but not when the participle has no complement (cf. (2)). With extraposed infinitives, the participle also remains: thus in (3a) cluster formation occurrs, whereas in (3b) the sentential complement remains independent. (2) dat Jan het zo heeft gewild / gewild heeft, that Jan it that way has wanted wanted has ' that Jan has wanted it that way.' (3) a. dat Jan het boek [heeft proberen te lezen]. that Jan the book has tried to read b. dat Jan heeft geprobeerd [om het boek te lezen] that Jan has tried comp the book to read 'that Jan has tried to read the book.' Existing accounts of the IPP effect usually relate the appearance of the infinitive to the formation of a cluster (e.g. Bennis and Hoekstra 1989a, 1 The research in this paper was made possible thanks to the financial support of th