Full Description
This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
Contents
1: Sam Wolfe and Rebecca Woods: Introduction
Part I: Classic Case Studies
2: Markus Bader: Objects in the German prefield: A view from language production
3: Anders Holmberg: On the Bottleneck Hypothesis of Verb Second in Swedish
4: Ciro Greco and Liliane Haegeman: Frame setters and microvariation of subject-initial Verb Second
5: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen: Adverbial resumptive particles and Verb Second
6: Craig Sailor: Rethinking 'residual' Verb Second
7: Phil Branigan: Multiple Feature Inheritance and the phase structure of the left periphery
8: Horst Lohnstein: The grammatical basis of Verb Second: The case of German
9: Hans-Martin Gärtner and Thórhallur Eyþórsson: Varieties of dependent Verb Second and verbal mood: A view from Icelandic
10: Ásgrímur Angantýsson: The distribution of embedded Verb Second and Verb Third in modern Icelandic
11: Marit Julien: The assertion analysis of declarative Verb Second
12: Hans-Martin Gärtner and Jens Michaelis: Verb Second declaratives, assertion, and disjunction revisited
13: Rebecca Woods: A different perspective on embedded Verb Second: Unifying embedded root phenomena
Part II: Diachrony
14: Cecilia Poletto: Null subjects in Old Italian
15: Sam Wolfe: Rethinking Medieval Romance Verb Second
16: Charlotte Galves: Relaxed Verb Second in Classical Portuguese
17: Eric Haeberli, Susan Pintzuk, and Ann Taylor: Object pronoun fronting and the nature of Verb Second in early English
18: Marieke Meelen: Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh
19: Mélanie Jouitteau: Verb Second and the Left Edge Filling Trigger
20: Krzysztof Migdalski: On a diachronic relation between the richness of Tense, Force, and second position effects
21: Željko Boškovič: On the syntax and prosody of Verb Second and Clitic Second
22: George Walkden and Hannah Booth: Reassessing the historical evidence for general embedded Verb Second
23: Svetlana Petrova: Embedded Verb Second in the history of German
Part III: Variation and Acquisition
24: Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan, and Alessandra Tomaselli: Rethinking Verb Second and Nominative case assignment: New insights from a Germanic variety in Northern Italy
25: Jan Casalicchio and Federica Cognola: Parameterizing 'lexical subject-finite verb' inversion across Verb Second languages: On the role of Relativized Minimality at the vP edge
26: Coppe van Urk: Verb Second is syntactic: Verb Third structures in Dinka
27: Alessandra Giorgi and Sona Haroutuynian: Verb Second and Verb Third in Modern Eastern Armenian
28: Molly Diesing and Beatrice Santorini: The scope of embedded Verb Second in modern Yiddish
29: Heike Wiese, Mehmet Tahir Öncü, Hans G. Müller, and Eva Wittenberg: Verb Third in spoken German: A natural order of information
30: Alexander Andrason: Verb Second in Wymysorys
31: Emily Manetta: Expanding the typology of Verb Second VPE: The case of Kashmiri
32: Colleen Fitzgerald: Second and first position in Tohono O'odham auxiliaries
33: Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard, and Øystein A. Vangsnes: Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and acquisition
34: Emanuela Sanfelici, Corinna Trabandt, and Petra Schulz: The role of variation of verb placement in the input: Evidence from the acquisition of Verb Second and Verb Final German relative clauses
35: Isaac Gould: The role of ambiguity in child errors: A comparison with Dependency Length Minimization
36: Rebecca Woods and Tom Roeper: Rethinking auxiliary doubling in adult and child language
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