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Residual Verb Second in French and Romance
Isogloss, 2022 This article revisits the classic definition of a Residual Verb Second language in light of evidence from the history of French, which is supplemented with synchronic evidence from the Romance languages.
Sam Wolfe
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Isogloss, 2021 This study aims to add to a rich scholarship on the presence of a verb second constraint in old (Italo-)Romance that has been argued to cause V-to-C raising of both the finite verb and one or more constituents, provided we understand this constraint to ...
Onkar Singh
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Embedded verb second in north-eastern Italy
IsoglossIn this work, we put forth the observation that some V2 languages are sensitive to the category of the XP moved in first position, only in cases of embedded V2, but not in main clause V2. This shows: a) that embedded V2 can be different from main clause
Nicola D'Antuono +9 more
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Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate
Glossa, 2021 Verb-stranding ellipsis, when a verb is stranded outside of the ellipsis site in which it originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew, Doron 1999, Goldberg 2005; Greek, Merchant 2018; Uzbek, Gribanova, 2020; i ...
Emily Walker Manetta
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What is “residual verb second”? And what does Romance have to do with it?
Isogloss, 2022 This paper aims to clarify a point of persistent confusion in the literature: namely, the status of residual verb second. We approach this from both a terminological and typological perspective.
Silvio Cruschina, Craig Sailor
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Verb-second in spoken and written Estonian
Glossa, 2021 This paper investigates clausal constituent order in Estonian, a language often described in the literature as exhibiting a verb-second “tendency”. We present a corpusbased study of ordering in independent affirmative declarative clauses, drawing data ...
George Walkden, Virve-Anneli Vihman
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Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
Languages, 2021 The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of Cursor Mundi and the Northern Homilies, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word ...
Robert Truswell
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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2022 The current study presents an analysis of a linguistic device supporting interactional coherence in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The analysis focused on the use of the German causative conjunction weil and, more specifically, on the syntactic ...
Glaznieks Aivars
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Energeia, 2021 Spanish and Mandarin Chinese have been classified as verb-framed language and satellite-framed language respectively (Talmy: 1991, 2000). However, in Spanish, manner verbs are compatible with hacia and hasta, and a small group of them can do so with ...
María Azucena Penas Ibáñez, Tao Zhang
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The Syntax of Negation of Serial Verbs in Urdu
NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022 The focus of this study is to highlight the syntax of the negation marker in Urdu serial verbs. There are two types of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Urdu.
Bisma Butt +2 more
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