CP-recursion in Danish: A cP/CP-analysis

@article{Nyvad2017CPrecursionID,
  title={CP-recursion in Danish: A cP/CP-analysis},
  author={Anne Mette Nyvad and Ken Ramsh{\o}j Christensen and Sten Vikner},
  journal={The Linguistic Review},
  year={2017},
  volume={34},
  pages={449 - 477}
}
Abstract Based on data from extraction, embedded V2, and complementizer stacking, this paper proposes a cP/CP-analysis of CP-recursion in Danish. Because extraction can be shown to be possible from relative clauses, wh-islands, and adverbial clauses, and given that long extraction is successive-cyclic, an extra specifier position has to be available as an escape hatch. Consequently, such extractions require a CP-recursion analysis, as has been argued for embedded V2 and for complementizer… 
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