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A conspiracy theory for the loss of V2 in romance
- Abstract:
- This article presents corpus data from Middle French and Later Old Venetan to argue that a conspiracy of factors is necessary to destabilise the V2 property. Specifically, we suggest that late-stage V2 grammars can be rendered unstable through specialisation of the prefield, specialisation of the information-structural values of subjects occurring in inversion structures, an overall preference for left-peripheral base-generation over movement, and certain types of V3. Importantly, we conclude – in contrast to much previous work on V2 loss, but in line with recent analysis by Poletto (2019) – that no single factor alone will trigger the loss of V2.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publication website:
- https://historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/hs/issue/view/69
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- Publisher:
- Journal of Historical Syntax
- Journal:
- Journal of Historical Syntax More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1-42
- Publication date:
- 2024-10-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-03-01
- EISSN:
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2163-6001
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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2007420
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pubs:2007420
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2024-06-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Wolfe, S.
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © 2024 Sam Wolfe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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