Full V2, no V2, residual V2: Exploring variation through phases

Full V2, no V2, residual V2: Exploring variation through phases

This paper presents a new phase-based theory of verb-second and indeed a new model of the left periphery. I argue that V-to-C movement of the verb to the phase head Fin0 has profound repercussions on clausal syntax which explains well-known differences between Modern Germanic V2 languages and Modern...

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Veröffentlicht in:Isogloss 2022-01, Vol.8 (3), p.1-25
1. Verfasser: Klaevik-Pettersen, Espen
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Germanic languages
Romance languages
Syntactic movement
Syntactic phases
Syntax
Verbs
Word order
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Zusammenfassung:This paper presents a new phase-based theory of verb-second and indeed a new model of the left periphery. I argue that V-to-C movement of the verb to the phase head Fin0 has profound repercussions on clausal syntax which explains well-known differences between Modern Germanic V2 languages and Modern Romance non-V2 languages with respect to topicalisation. I also explore how the proposed analysis can account for the linear restriction on the prefield in V2 languages as well as the phenomenon of ‘residual verb second’ in otherwise non-V2 languages like Modern Romance.
ISSN:2385-4138
2385-4138
DOI:10.5565/rev/isogloss.199