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A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
[Linguistic Variation 19:1] 2019
► pp. 16–46

Redefining the typology of V2 languages

The view from Medieval Romance and beyond

| University of Oxford
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.
Keywords: Verb Second, subjects, Sicilian, Occitan, French, inversion, verb-first, verb third
Article outline
  • 1.Background
    • 1.1Introduction
    • 1.2Working assumptions
    • 1.3Outline
  • 2.On the unifying characteristics of V2 grammars
    • 2.1Finite verb placement
    • 2.2The nature of the prefield
    • 2.3‘Inversion’ phenomena
    • 2.4Summary
  • 3.Variation in V2 grammars
    • 3.1V3* orders
    • 3.2V1 and null constituents
  • 4.Summary and further research
    • 4.1A new typology
    • 4.2Future research
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 24 September 2019
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