Swedish Wh-Root-infinitives

The purpose of this short paper is to present a minimalist account of the syntax of the Swedish Wh-Root-infinitives, trying to characterize the syntax of this generally neglected main clause equivalent while comparing its syntax to the syntax of finite root clauses. See (i) and (ii): (i) Swedish Varför sälj-a huset? why sell-INF house.the ‘Why sell the house?’ (ii) Swedish Varför sälj-er ni huset? why sell-PRES you house.the ‘Why do you sell the house?’ My account is based on the hypothesis that C minimally probes the sentence type features finite, imperative or infinitive, present in the inflection of the verb. More precisely, I will show that the Swedish facts, like corresponding facts in English, German and Icelandic, follow from a grammar driven by an asymmetry with respect to feature values (see Chomsky 2007:6) and subsequent papers), and that all unvalued features must be eliminated before syntax can zip together form and meaning