Journal article
Redefining the typology of V2 languages: The view from Medieval Romance and beyond
- Abstract:
- This article proposes a new typology of the V2 property, integrating new data from a corpus of Medieval Romance texts with data from Rhaeto-Romance, Early Germanic and Modern Germanic. The proposed analysis is that all V2 systems have a V-movement and phrasal movement trigger on the lowest left-peripheral head, Fin, and that in a subclass of V2 languages Force also has these properties. It is argued that the restrictions on and variation in licensing verb-initial and verb-third clauses within Romance and Germanic V2 systems fall out from the Fin/Force distinction.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 632.3KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1075/lv.15026.wol
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- Publisher:
- John Benjamins Publishing
- Journal:
- Linguistic Variation More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 16–46
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-07
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2211-6842
- ISSN:
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2211-6834
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pubs:675628
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pubs:675628
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675628
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2017-02-03
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- Copyright holder:
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- Copyright © John Benjamins Publishing Company. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from John Benjamins Publishing at: https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.15026.wol
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