This monograph provides the first cross-linguistic study of repair strategies in verbal
fronting verb doubling and do-support addressing both typological properties and theoretical
aspects. First it brings together data hitherto scattered across the empirical and theoretical
literature and adds newly collected data from two African languages. For each of the 47
languages the properties of verbal fronting are documented in detail. Based on this sample
the empirical part establishes two novel typological generalizations regarding the interaction
between the size of the fronted category and the type of repair strategy used. The first of
these identifies a systematic typological gap: No language that allows both verb and verb
phrase fronting has do-support with the former and verb doubling with the latter. In the
theoretical part it is shown that previous theories of verb doubling do-support are unable to
account for both generalizations. A new approach within the Copy Theory of the Minimalist
Framework is developed that rests on the interaction of head movement copy deletion and the
properties of different movement types. The book thus provides the first comprehensive
empirical and theoretical overview of repair patterns in verbal fronting.
