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Introduction published In: A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
[Linguistic Variation 19:1] 2019
► pp. 1–15

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Introduction

A micro-perspective on Verb-second in Romance and Germanic

 | University of Oslo
Published online: 24 September 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.00010.mek
Abstract
The Verb-second (V2) phenomenon is one of the central issues of modern linguistic theory. This volume examines V2 from a micro-perspective, comparing various languages and periods. At the heart of the work presented here lies the clear assumption that Verb-second is by no means a unitary phenomenon, but rather a heterogenous and rich system that affects languages in various ways.
Article outline
  • 1.A linear model
  • 2.Typology
    • 2.1Old Romance
  • 3.A formal approach
    • 3.1Main-embedded asymmetries
    • 3.2CP-V2 and IP-V2
  • 4.Cartography
    • 4.1The bottleneck
    • 4.2Force-V2 and Fin-V2
  • 5.V2 violations
  • 6.This volume
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References
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The following Old French examples have been retrieved from the Base de français médiéval (ENS de Lyon 2016).
clari Robert de Clari: La Conquête de Constantinople. 1924, Philippe Lauer (ed). Paris: Champion. [URL]
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