Full Description
While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied. The latter is referred to as 'adverbial resumption' and it also has the character of being a V3 phenomenon. Therefore, the pattern is labelled 'adverbial V3 resumption' or 'adverbial V3.'
The present volume is an up-to-date overview of the subject featuring case studies of individual languages that display certain patterns of V3. The authors discuss this pattern in relation to several different languages, addressing among other things issues of microvariation in contemporary varieties and diachronic variation. The book covers Medieval Romance, Old Italian, Old English, diachronic and synchronic varieties of German, varieties of Flemish and Dutch, Icelandic, varieties of Swedish, and Norwegian.
Through analyses of adverbial resumptive V3 orders in Germanic and Romance, the contributors explore the nature of V2: while adverbial resumption only occurs in varieties that observe the V2 rule, in itself it leads to apparent violations of linear V2 order, namely to V3 orders.
Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages provides comparative analyses which touch upon the nature of sentence-external versus sentence-internal adjuncts, and the fine-grained architecture of the clausal functional hierarchy. These papers constitute a valuable contribution to the theoretically important topics of V2 and V3 that will be of interest to comparative linguists, Germanic linguistics, Romance linguists, and anyone working on formal grammar in general.
Contents
Part I: Presentation of the volume
Introduction
Table of contents
1. Adverbial resumption in V2 languages: the background
Liliane Haegeman
Karen De Clercq
Terje Lohndal
Christine Meklenburg Salvesen
2. Frame-setters and microvariation of subject-initial Verb Second
Ciro Greco
Liliane Haegeman
Part II. Revisiting the typology of adverbial resumption
3. On the syntax of fronted adverbial clauses in two Tyrolean dialects: the distribution of resumptive semm
Jan Casalicchio
Federica Cognola
4. A generalised resumptive in the Ghent variety of East Flemish?
Karen De Clercq
Liliane Haegeman
5. Resumptive adverbs in Old French and Old Occitan
Barbara Vance
Part III. Adverbial resumption and the syntax of V2
3.1. Resumption and the syntax of (non) integration
6. Adverbial resumption in German from a synchronic and diachronic perspective
Katrin Axel-Tober
7. V3 in True V2 Contexts and Adverbial Resumption in Old English
Eric Haeberli
Susan Pintzuk
8. Adverbial resumption and scope: a case study of Norwegian
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Terje Lohndal
3.2. Adverbial resumption and the articulated left periphery of V2
9. Resumption in Medieval Romance: Reconsidering si
Sam Wolfe
10. Why is it so? An analysis of the V3 cases after si in Old Italian
Cecilia Poletto
11. The syntax of the V3 particle så in the Swedish left periphery
Anders Holmberg
12. The XP-Þá-construction and V2
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
13. Resolving permissible and impermissible V3 in Kiezdeutsch: resumption and beyond
Benjamin Lowell Sluckin
Oliver Bunk
