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Verb Second—Predication or Unification?
Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 1986This paper reports work in progress. It concerns the relationship in Germanic languages between the sentence initial constituent XP, and the rest of the sentence S, assuming a rule S → XP S. An informal proposal is presented, according to which that relationship is better characterized in terms of the notion of unification than that of predication. The
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The grammatical basis of Verb Second
2020The root and embedded Verb Second constructions in German are investigated and an analysis is proposed which employs properties of the inflectional system to derive finiteness fronting. In particular, the fronting of finiteness through verb movement is traced back to the deictic variables of the inflectional categories tense (time of speech) and verbal
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2000
Abstract This chapter focuses on a number of Central Rhaetoromance varieties that have maintained a V2 structure similar to that present in Old Romance texts (cf. Benincà 1995b for a detailed analysis of this phenomenon in Old French and in the medieval stage of northern Italian dialects; see Roberts 1993c for a proposal about Old French)
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Abstract This chapter focuses on a number of Central Rhaetoromance varieties that have maintained a V2 structure similar to that present in Old Romance texts (cf. Benincà 1995b for a detailed analysis of this phenomenon in Old French and in the medieval stage of northern Italian dialects; see Roberts 1993c for a proposal about Old French)
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Negation and verb second in Breton
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1995This paper provides an analysis of Breton phrase structure and examines its consequences for the reformulation of the ECP in Rizzi (1990b). Particularly, I argue that subjects must be antecedent governed. I demonstrate that a number of aspects of Breton syntax, particularly subject agreement phenomena in V2 root clauses, are thus explained.
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Rethinking ‘residual’ Verb Second
2020The term “residual Verb Second ” is a misnomer for English, because V2 is, in fact, still productive in the language. Evidence for this comes from a previously undescribed negative inversion phenomenon innovated very recently in varieties of English.
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The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2004
In this article, I argue for a remnant movement approach to German V/2 constructions that does not employ head movement at any step of the derivation: the pre-V/2 (topic) position and the V/2 position collapse into a single fronted remnant vP. The central theoretical innovation is a constraint on the movement of phases: the Edge Domain Pied Piping ...
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In this article, I argue for a remnant movement approach to German V/2 constructions that does not employ head movement at any step of the derivation: the pre-V/2 (topic) position and the V/2 position collapse into a single fronted remnant vP. The central theoretical innovation is a constraint on the movement of phases: the Edge Domain Pied Piping ...
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1998
Abstract This chapter deals with the central word-order patterns of Middle Welsh. It develops a synchronic analysis of the abnormal sentence as a verb-second (V2) phenomenon parallel to similar phenomena in the Germanic languages and in Breton.
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Abstract This chapter deals with the central word-order patterns of Middle Welsh. It develops a synchronic analysis of the abnormal sentence as a verb-second (V2) phenomenon parallel to similar phenomena in the Germanic languages and in Breton.
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Verb Second and Illocutionary Force
1991Among the most important syntactic feaures of a clause are the illocutionary force indicators, those features which indicate whether the proposition expressed by a clause is to be taken as the content of a question, assertion, or some other illocutionary act (Searle 1969, 30ff). In this paper we analyze the verb second (V2) constraint in Germanic, with
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Verb Second in Medieval Romance
2018This book provides the first book-length study of the controversial subject of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance languages. Both qualitative and quantitative data are examined and analysed from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and Sardinian to assess whether the languages were indeed Verb Second ...
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1999
The previous chapter provided evidence to support the claim that in Kashmiri the lexical projections (including verb) are head-final and the functional projections are head-initial. There is, however, a generalization about Kashmiri word order that I have not fully addressed yet: The finite verb in declarative main and some subordinate clauses ...
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The previous chapter provided evidence to support the claim that in Kashmiri the lexical projections (including verb) are head-final and the functional projections are head-initial. There is, however, a generalization about Kashmiri word order that I have not fully addressed yet: The finite verb in declarative main and some subordinate clauses ...
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