In comparison with the first version, two major differences exist.

First, it was agreed with the publisher that this should be a smaller volume, representing only the first part of the dissertation, on verb movement in Dutch. The second part of the dissertation, on other aspects of word order in Dutch, has not been further developed here (except for the brief discussion in chapters III and IV).

Second, the analysis of verb movement in Dutch has been changed considerably. I felt that in the earlier analysis, certain details involving verbal morphology, complementizer morphology, and cliticization had not been analyzed in a satisfactory way. A further rethinking of the relation between syntax and morphology, inspired by Halle and Marantz 1993 and Chomsky 1995, turned out to clarify these issues and, at the same time, to provide a simpler explanation for the absence of verb movement in embedded clauses. The resulting analysis shares many aspects with my earlier work on the subject (cf. Zwart 1991a, 1993[b] ), which now, hopefully, has been given a more solid theoretical basis.

The new title reflects these differences. As for the text, chapters I and II have undergone only minor changes (except that section I.3 of the dissertation version has been completely revised and turned into chapter V), chapter III is a revision of the old chapter III, sections 1-3, chapter IV is based on the old chapter IV, section 2, and chapters V-VII have been written almost entirely from scratch (using some material from the old chapter III, sections 4 and 5).