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The Loss of Verb-Second

1998
Abstract The V2-system described in Chapters 3 and 4 began to break down in Late Middle Welsh. Some aspects of this have already been noted, in particular, exceptions to the V2-rule with subject pronouns and the affirmative complementizer fe. In this chapter other sources of the loss of the V2-ru1e are examined.
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Verb seconding in Old English: verb movement to Infl

The Linguistic Review, 1993
In this article, evidence is presented to contradict some hypotheses of verb seconding as verb movement to Comp analysis for Old English : it is demonstrated that in general case, verb seconding in Old English main clauses involves verb mouvement to clause-medial Infl rather than to Comp, and that verb seconding to Infl applies not only in main clauses
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Verb-second, particles, and flexible verb-initial orders

Lingua, 2010
Abstract This paper focuses on the analysis of languages that allow both VSO and VOS orders. An analysis is proposed in the context of a flexible approach to syntax (cf. Neeleman, A., Weerman, F., 1999. Flexible Syntax: A Theory of Case and Arguments. Kluwer, Dordrecht) and compared with different alternative analyses of VSO–VOS alternations.
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Rhaetoromance Verb Second

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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On the syntax and prosody of Verb Second and Clitic Second

2020
This chapter argues that V2 and clitic second should not be unified structurally. Second-position clitics do not all occur in a fixed position high in the clause (they can, in fact, occur rather low in the structure), differing from the verb in V2 in this respect, and second-position clitic systems are incompatible with the presence of definite ...
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Residual Verb Second and Verb First in Basque

1995
Abstract This article examines some word order constraints found in Basque sentences with interrogative and focal operators, which must be left adjacent to the verb. Traditional accounts of Basque (Altube 1929) usually claim this to be main (often, the only) restriction on word-order in this language.1 Here, I will follow Brody’s (1990 ...
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Verb Second—Predication or Unification?

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 1986
This 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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Negation and verb second in Breton

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1995
This 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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Verb-Second in Middle Welsh

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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Verb Second Word Order in Norwegian Heritage Language:

Variable Properties in Language, 2019
Marit Westergaard, Terje Lohndal
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