Just as the Modern Germanic languages (with the exception of English) have a verb second structure (V2), Old French was a V2 language. In this paper I compare Old French and Modern Germanic and show that they share the basic configuration. I suggest that these languages all have obligatory verb movement to Fin°, and that only material in SpecFocP and SpecFinP are visible for V2. All the V2-languages investigated exhibit instances of apparent V3-constructions that may be accounted for in a split-CP-framework. Crucially, there is a difference between Modern Germanic and Old French regarding topics. In Modern Germanic, a left dislocated topic must be immediately followed by its resumptive pronoun, a constraint which is not operative in Old French.
2018. Aboutness Topics in Old and Middle French: A corpus-based study on the fate of V2. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 63:2 ► pp. 194 ff.
2019. The Variable Position of Initial Subordinate Clauses in Old French: Arguments Against a Semantic Account. In Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 95], ► pp. 175 ff.
Haegeman, Liliane & Ciro Greco
2018. West Flemish V3 and the interaction of syntax and discourse. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 21:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Eric Mathieu & Robert Truswell
2017. Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax,
Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine
2014. Le complémenteur que et la périphérie gauche : analyse diachronique. Syntaxe & Sémantique N° 15:1 ► pp. 47 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Properties of Romance object clitics. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 11 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Historical overview. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 63 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitics in embryo. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 151 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Morphophonological evidence against deficiency. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 135 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitic combinations. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 267 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitic climbing. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 235 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Conclusions. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 295 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Syntactic evidence against deficiency. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 107 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Theoretical preliminaries. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 35 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. The rise ofadverbalclitics. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 165 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Deriving enclisis in ‘V1’ clauses. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 213 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Introduction. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Romance Object Clitics,
Pescarini, Diego
2021. ‘V2’ and clitic placement. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 183 ff.
Vance, Barbara S.
2020. Theory and Data in Historical Syntax. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, ► pp. 88 ff.
2022. Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery. Probus 34:1 ► pp. 235 ff.
Zaring, Laurie
2018. The nature of V2 in Old French: Evidence from subject inversion in embedded clauses. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 63:2 ► pp. 288 ff.
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2021. List of abbreviations. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2021. Copyright Page. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. iv ff.
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2021. Series preface. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. ix ff.
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