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.