Syntactic Variation and Verb Second
A German dialect in Northern Italy
| University of Trento
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Mòcheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Mòcheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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ix
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List of abbreviations
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xi–xii
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1. Introduction
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1–17
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2. Mòcheno and the V2 phenomenon
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19–76
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3. The syntax of subject pronouns
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77–111
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4. Satisfaction of EPP and realization of subjects
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113–138
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5. Mòcheno as a partial pro-drop language
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139–165
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6. Multiple access to CP and asymmetric pro-drop
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167–211
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7. Conclusions
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213–220
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References
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221–233
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Appendix
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235–321
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Index
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323–325
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