This paper provides evidence for the idea that relaxed verb-second (V2) languages exist and exhibt specific properties which distinguish them from both strict V2 and non-V2 languages. The identification of the relaxed subtype of V2 languages implies that V2 should not be understood as a linear restriction, but as an abstract rule involving the movement of the finite verb to a head of the left periphery in all main clauses.
How to define relaxed V2 languages and how to distinguish them from non-V2 languages / Cognola, Federica. - In: NORDIC JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS. - ISSN 0332-5865. - ELETTRONICO. - 38:1(2015), pp. 93-100. [10.1017/S0332586515000037]
How to define relaxed V2 languages and how to distinguish them from non-V2 languages.
COGNOLA, FEDERICA
2015
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This paper provides evidence for the idea that relaxed verb-second (V2) languages exist and exhibt specific properties which distinguish them from both strict V2 and non-V2 languages. The identification of the relaxed subtype of V2 languages implies that V2 should not be understood as a linear restriction, but as an abstract rule involving the movement of the finite verb to a head of the left periphery in all main clauses.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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