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Verb Second and Verb Third in Modern Eastern Armenian [PDF]
, 2020 Modern Eastern Armenian is a SOV language. In some sentences, the inflected verb can also occupy the second position, according to the well-known V2 typology. In these cases, the interpretation of the phrase preceding the verb is obligatorily a focused one.
Alessandra Giorgi, Sona Haroutyunian
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Nederlandse Taalkunde, 2016 Abstract This paper provides some historical background of the rise of verb-second in Germanic by data from the earliest Germanic language of which we have authentic texts (rather than slavish translations from Latin): Old English (ca. 700-1100). The rise of verb-second can be seen as activating the C-head (i) by movement of another head V, in order to
Los, Betty
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The Electrophysiological Manifestation of Dutch Verb Second Violations [PDF]
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009 We investigated the processing of violations of the verb position in Dutch, in a group of healthy subjects, by measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) through electroencephalography (EEG). In Dutch, the base position of the verb is clause final, but in matrix clauses, the finite verb is in second position, a construction known as Verb Second.
den Ouden, Dirk B., Bastiaanse, Roelien
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Adverbial resumptive particles and Verb Second
Rethinking Verb Second, 2020 All modern Verb Second languages have some sort of resumptive strategy where a fronted element is followed by a resumptive element, pushing the finite verb to third position.
Christine Meklenborg
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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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Reassessing the historical evidence for embedded Verb Second
Rethinking Verb Second, 2020 This chapter revisits the significant question of embedded Verb Second in historical Germanic, in light of recent developments in research on present-day V2 languages.
G. Walkden, Hannah Booth
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Verb-second and verb-first in the history of Icelandic
, 2021 The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative literature (e.g. Sigurðsson 1990, Franco 2008), and such structures are known to be more frequent in earlier stages compared to the modern language. In this paper, we provide an account for the diachrony of V1 and V2 in Icelandic where the decreasing frequency
Booth, Hannah, Beck, Christin
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This paper investigates the acquisition of residual verb second (V2) in three corpora consisting of data from Norwegian-English bilinguals (Emma, Emily and Sunniva) in order to determine to what extent these structures are affected by cross-linguistic ...
Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen
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EINE SEMANTISCHE KLASSIFIZIERUNG VON "WEIL"-SÄTZEN
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021 A Semantic Classification of Weil-clauses. In the present study, we will elaborate a classification of clauses introduced by weil ‘because’; this classification combines different views on the concepts of cause and motive and their respective linguistic
Sibilla CANTARINI, Chiara De BASTIANI
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