
Verb Second
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New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic structure building lead to hypotheses about the mutual influence of these systems. The diachronic change in the syntax together with changes in the inflectional system show the interdependence between the syntactic and the inflectional component.
The fact that the subjunctive can license verb second in dependent clauses reveals further dependencies between these subsystems of grammar. "Fronting finiteness" furthermore constitutes an instance of a main clause phenomenon. Whether "assertion" or "at-issueness" are encoded through this grammatical process will be a matter in the debates discussed in the book. Moreover, information structure appears to be directly related to the fronting of other constituents in front of the finite verb. Questions concerning the interrelations between these various subcomponents of the grammatical system are investigated.
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Horst Lohnstein , Antonios Tsiknakis , University of Wuppertal, Germany
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Form and function of verb second - an overview
- A grammar competition analysis of V2 phenomena in second language acquisition
- How much verb moves to second position?
- Notes on the left periphery of V2 complement clauses in German: Complementiser drop and complementiser doubling
- Assertive potential, speaker evidence and embedded V2
- What kind of main clause phenomenon is V2 in German?
- The left periphery as interface - On verb second and finiteness interaction
- Variation and change in the licensing of dependent V2 in German
- On the licensing of null subjects in Old Venetian
- Verb third as Cluster movement in German
- On the role of the left periphery in the interpretation of causal Wo-VE-clauses
- Parentheticals, root phenomena, and V2 in German
- Verb movement and topicalization in German
- Addresses
- Index
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