Shared objects in conjoined VPs in Germanic

I discuss a construction involving conjoined VPs, in which an object in the first conjunct is intuitively shared into the second conjunct, where it is phonologically null. The construction as a phenomenon appears in all of the Germanic languages, with some variation. Building on Sadock (1998) and Vikner (2003) I investigate the shared object structures in several languages from the family, making new or slightly nuanced proposals about the points of cross-linguistic variation.