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2020
This chapter describes the V2 system of Dinka (Nilotic; South Sudan) in detail, focusing on those environments in which departures from V2 are tolerated. Dinka has a V2 effect both at the clause edge and at the edge of the verb phrase. The chapter shows that the way in which V2 is established in both places is dictated directly by the featural needs of
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This chapter describes the V2 system of Dinka (Nilotic; South Sudan) in detail, focusing on those environments in which departures from V2 are tolerated. Dinka has a V2 effect both at the clause edge and at the edge of the verb phrase. The chapter shows that the way in which V2 is established in both places is dictated directly by the featural needs of
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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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Verb-second, particles, and flexible verb-initial orders
Lingua, 2010Abstract 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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Verb seconding in Old English: verb movement to Infl
The Linguistic Review, 1993In 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—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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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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Rethinking the loss of verb second
2012AbstractMore than twenty years of research has been devoted to the nature of Verb Second (V2) in early English and its loss in the transition from Middle English (ME) to early Modern English (EModE). Yet there has been no sufficient explanation for why and how V2 was lost in clauses introduced by a non-subject first constituent other than a wh- phrase ...
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Residual Verb Second and Verb First in Basque
1995Abstract 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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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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Introduction: Verb-third phenomena in Germanic verb-second languages
Introduction to the ...Harchaoui, Sarah, Modicom, Pierre-Yves
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