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Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate
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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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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What is “residual verb second”? And what does Romance have to do with it?
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 [PDF]
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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Native Word Order Processing Is Not Uniform: An ERP Study of Verb-Second Word Order. [PDF]
Sayehli S +3 more
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Germanic Verb Second Languages. Attract vs. Repel: On Optionality, A-bar Movement and the Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Verb Second Hypothesis* [PDF]
Christer Platzack
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Residual Verb Second in French and Romance
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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Arguments for and Against Verb Second in Karitiana
Este artigo revisita a hipótese de que a língua Tupi Karitiana é uma língua V2, em que o verbo finito ocupa uma segunda posição estrutural da sentença (C).
Luciana Raccanello Storto
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In this article, it is proposed that different types of apparent “non-V2” arrangements in Present-Day German matrix clauses which are generally treated independently are similar in nature and derivable by means of a limited number of syntactic operations
Catasso Nicholas
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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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