1732-8160 Le Charme Discret of Remnant Movement:  Crossing and Nesting in Polish OVS Sentences Wiland Bartosz author Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Correspondence to: Bartosz Wiland 30 11 2016 Vol. 11, Issue 3 Volume 11 (2016) 133 165 Copyright © 2016 2016 <p style="text-align: left;">Remnant movement, once believed not to be a part of grammar at all, has since become a tool of analyzing phenomena like verb fronting, word order alternations, or covert movement. What has been largely missing from the discussion of remnant movement are the effects a remnant constituent has on the nodes in the clause it has crossed. This paper argues that remnant movement has particular consequences for clausal syntax since it gives rise to crossing and nesting movement dependencies. This point is illustrated on the example of certain robust asymmetries in the Polish OVS syntax. 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