Verb second grammar internal and grammar external interfaces

This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs. diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages.0New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic s...

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Other Authors: Lohnstein, Horst (Editor), Tsiknakis, Antonios (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Interface explorations ; 34.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Form and function of verb second
  • an overview
  • A grammar competition analysis of V2 phenomena in second language acquisition
  • How much verb moves to second position?
  • Notes on the left periphery of V2 complement clauses in German: Complementiser drop and complementiser doubling
  • Assertive potential, speaker evidence and embedded V2
  • What kind of main clause phenomenon is V2 in German?
  • The left periphery as interface
  • On verb second and finiteness interaction
  • Variation and change in the licensing of dependent V2 in German
  • On the licensing of null subjects in Old Venetian
  • Verb third as Cluster movement in German
  • On the role of the left periphery in the interpretation of causal Wo-VE-clauses
  • Parentheticals, root phenomena, and V2 in German
  • Verb movement and topicalization in German
  • Addresses
  • Index