This paper presents two case studies of elements which appear to c-select for more than one category as their complement: negation in German and diminutive marking in Halkomelem Salish. It is argued that both cases can successfully be analyzed in a way not contradicting the claim that c-selection is unique (i.e., that linguistic items can at most c-select for one category). German negation is analyzed as a (category-neutral) root which does not have any categorial (including c-selectional) properties and as such is able to combine with any category. Halkomelem diminutive marking is analyzed as c-selecting for (category-neutral) roots and as such appears to combine with nouns, verbs and adjectives (before they are so categorized). This result leads to the conclusion that roots cannot c-select but that they can be c-selected for and thus advances our understanding of the syntactic properties of roots.