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Redefining the typology of V2 languages

The view from Medieval Romance and beyond

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ID4567779
AuthorsWolfe (0000-0002-5509-2622, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Sam Wolfe
Year2019
Volume19
Issue1
Pages16-46
Publication date2019-09-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.15026.wol
OpenAlexW2975272832
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited86

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

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