In:A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2
Giuseppe Samo
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 257] 2019
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Published online: 5 December 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.257.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Abbreviationsix
Chapter 1.Cartography and V2 languages1
1.1The cartography of syntactic structures2
1.1.1Brief history of cartography2
1.1.2Towards a cartographic map5
1.1.3Cartographic guidelines6
1.2The cartography of the CP: Evidence from Italian11
1.2.1Brief history of the fine structure of the Left Periphery (Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004)11
1.2.1Complementizers13
1.2.2Landing sites for internally merged elements16
1.2.3A cartography of cartographic positions24
1.3Verb second languages in generative grammar: An overview25
1.3.1A brief history of V2: Pre-cartographic analyses31
1.3.2Theoretical foundation of the recent analyses of V2 and a typology of V232
1.3.3The theory-internal drawbacks of recent analyses39
1.4The quest for new landing sites for the verb in V2 environments44
Chapter 2.A criterial approach to V2 and its predictive power45
2.1The criterial approach to scope-discourse semantics46
2.1.1Focus adjacency and residual V248
2.1.2Towards a peripheral criterion50
2.2V2 as the sum of residual V2s53
2.2.1Towards an ideal mechanism54
2.2.2Scrambling: No “bottleneck effect” in FinP but standard locality principles57
2.2.3Residual V2s in V2 languages63
2.3On Subject initial clauses69
2.3.1A subject criterion69
2.3.2Is a subject always a topic?70
2.3.3History of V2 and subject-initial clauses72
2.3.4Towards a typology of V2 languages in Subject-initial clauses: Some evidence75
2.4Summing up: Towards a typology of criterial V2s?82
Chapter 3.Micro-parametric variation in creating Spec-Head configurations: V3 orders involving temporal and locative items85
3.1Recent analyses and V3 orders86
3.1.1On FrameP: Scene setters, time and space88
3.2Asymmetries expected under a criterial approach91
3.3A qualitative analysis of V3 involving temporal and locative items92
3.3.0A qualitative analysis of V3: Materials, methods and results92
3.3.1Uncovering “Superficial” V3 orders in German:95
3.3.2On non-German V3101
3.3.3Criterial V2 and V3 orders with temporal and locative items106
3.4Confirming the predictions: Two control groups107
Chapter 4.Micro-parametric variation in creating spec-head configurations: A qualitative analysis of V3 involving internally merged items109
4.0The quest for V3 involving internally merged elements: Theoretical background109
4.0.1Subjects110
4.0.2Adverb110
4.0.3Wh111
4.0.4LP111
4.1A qualitative analysis of V3 involving internally merged items112
4.1.1Subject – Adverb – V3112
4.1.2Subject – Wh – V3117
4.1.3Subject – LP – V3118
4.1.4Adverb – Subject – V3119
4.1.5Adverb – Wh – V3121
4.1.6Adverb – Adverb – V3122
4.1.7Adverb – LP – V3123
4.1.8Wh – Subj – V3124
4.1.9Wh – Adverb – V3126
4.1.10Wh – LP – V3127
4.1.11LP – Subj – V3127
4.1.12LP – Adverb – V3128
4.1.13LP – LP – V3129
4.1.14LP – Wh – V3129
4.2V3 with internally merged items: Summary, conclusions and speculations131
Chapter 5.Higher than ForceP: V3 orders in multiple-clause structures135
5.0V3 involving the Deixis Layer and peripheral CPs135
5.1On Deixis Layer: Speech-act referring adverbs/speaker-oriented adverbs and peripheral CPs135
5.1.1SpeAct: Speaker oriented and/or speech act referring adverbs135
5.1.2Peripheral CPs139
5.2“The case” of hanging topic142
5.2.1Internal argument moved to the LP142
5.2.2Hanging Topics144
5.2.3The curious case of the hanging topic with case marking?146
5.2.4The case of reconstructed CHT158
5.3Summing up: Root clauses do not challenge a criterial approach to V2160
Chapter 6.Criterial V2 and microvariation in embedded contexts161
6.1V2 languages and embedded contexts: An overview161
6.2The nature of complementizers164
6.2.1Leu’s (2015, 2017) proposal for dass ‘that’ from Fin° to Force°164
6.2.2Do subordinators come from the IP?166
6.2.3The complementizer dass and Cardinaletti (2004)’s Cartography of subjects167
6.3On the lack of V2 in embedded clauses and criterial V2173
6.3.1Crosslinguistc variation: German vs. SR varieties173
6.3.2Ke type and az type (Grewendorf & Poletto 2012)175
6.3.3Two weil in German177
6.4V2 and embedded clauses: Summing up179
Chapter 7.Recap and conclusions: A criterial model to V2181
References195
Language index211
Name index213
Subject index215
