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Verb movement and interrogatives

Linguistica, 2002
Verb movement is a phenomenon that has been studied extensively withintheframework of Chomskyan generative grammar. The pioneering work by Pollock(1989) has been followed by a number of studies involving various languages, whichhas provided an important ...
Gašper Ilc, Milena Milojević Sheppard
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Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP-topicalization in Germanic [PDF]

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2021
AbstractIn the absence of a stranded auxiliary or modal, VP-topicalization in most Germanic languages gives rise to the presence of a dummy verb meaning ‘do’. Cross-linguistically, this is a rather uncommon strategy as comparable VP-fronting constructions in other languages, e.g. Hebrew, Polish, and Portuguese, among many others, exhibit verb doubling.
Johannes Hein
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Verb movement in Florentine

Isogloss
Complementizer deletion (CD) in Italo-Romance varieties branches off in two different pathways: CD1, present in standard Italian with a bridge selecting verb and an irrealis embedded verb and CD2, available in Florentine and associated with a bridge or ...
ELENA ISOLANI
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Non-finite Verb Movement in Romance

Probus, 2022
AbstractSince Pollock, Jean-Yves. 1989. Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of IP.Linguistic Inquiry20. 365–424, it is well known that Romance finite verbs move into the I-domain. However, the relationship between finiteness and verb movement has not yet been investigated in detail.
Kim A Groothuis
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Verb and auxiliary movement in agrammatic Broca’s aphasia [PDF]

Brain and Language, 2003
Verb production in agrammatic Broca's aphasia has repeatedly been shown to be impaired by a number of investigators. Not only is the number of verbs produced often significantly reduced, but verb inflections and auxiliaries are often omitted as well (e.g., Bastiaanse, Jonkers, & Moltmaker-Osinga, 1996; Saffran, Berndt, & Schwartz, 1989; Thompson ...
Roelien Bastiaanse, Cynthia K Thompson
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: The Minimalist Programme as a general linguistic framework for Verb Movement

Acta Academica, 2001
From text: This chapter offers a survey of recent developments in the theory of sentence-structure within the Chomskyan generative framework. The emphasis is on the development of syntactic theory up to and including MP.
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Verb movement in Japanese revisited

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2008
Abstract This paper argues for verb movement in Japanese. In Taro-ga sushi-o mo tabe-ta 'Taro also ate sushi,' for example, we claim that tabe 'eat' actually moves past mo 'also,' as in [Taro-ga sushi-o t tabe mo tabe-ta]. This analysis is supported by the interpretation of the adjunct clitic mo.
Kosuke Tanaka
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A Cartographic Approach to Verb Movement and Two Types of FinP V2 in German

Languages
In this paper, two syntactic configurations are considered that involve V-to-C movement in present-day German: Verb Second in run-of-the-mill declarative clauses and Verb Second in non-assertive embedded contexts.
Nicholas Catasso
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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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Partikelverben als Pleonasmen? [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023
The article deals with the problem of a possible pleonastic interpretation of the constructions with particle as verb adjunct and a preposition semantically and partly formally corresponding with it.
Justyna Dolińska
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