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A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2
Giuseppe Samo
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 257] 2019
► pp. 1–44

Chapter 1
Cartography and V2 languages

Article outline
  • 1.1The cartography of syntactic structures
    • 1.1.1Brief history of cartography
    • 1.1.2Towards a cartographic map
    • 1.1.3Cartographic guidelines
      • 1.1.3.1Morphosyntactic features and functional heads
      • 1.1.3.2Criterial approach and transparency at the interfaces
      • 1.1.3.3Locality principles
  • 1.2The cartography of the CP: Evidence from Italian
    • 1.2.1Brief history of the fine structure of the Left Periphery (Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004)
    • 1.2.1Complementizers
      • 1.2.1.1Force Phrase (ForceP)
      • 1.2.1.2IntP
      • 1.2.1.3Finitess Phrase (FinP)
      • 1.2.1.4Co-occurrence of complementizers
    • 1.2.2Landing sites for internally merged elements
      • 1.2.2.1Focus Phrase (focP)
      • 1.2.2.2Topic Phrase (TopP)
      • 1.2.2.3Digression of interest: Topic vs. Focus
      • 1.2.2.4Modifier Phrase (ModP)
      • 1.2.2.5Question embedded Phrase (QembP)
    • 1.2.3A cartography of cartographic positions
  • 1.3Verb second languages in generative grammar: An overview
    • 1.3.1A brief history of V2: Pre-cartographic analyses
    • 1.3.2Theoretical foundation of the recent analyses of V2 and a typology of V2
      • 1.3.2.1V2-to-Fin
      • 1.3.2.2V3 orders: Diagnostics for a typology
      • 1.3.2.3V2-to-Force
    • 1.3.3The theory-internal drawbacks of recent analyses
      • 1.3.3.1V-to-Fin drawbacks: Non criterial movement and cartography
      • 1.3.3.2V-to-Fin drawbacks: One feature, one head
      • 1.3.3.3V-to-Fin drawbacks: Locality and the ‘bottleneck effect’
      • 1.3.3.4V-to-Fin drawbacks: Base-generations in TopicP and patterns of dependency
      • 1.3.3.5V-to-Force drawbacks: SpecForceP and criterial freezing
      • 1.3.3.6V-to-Force drawbacks: Transparency at the interfaces
      • 1.3.3.7V-to-Force drawbacks: The behaviour of scene setters
  • 1.4The quest for new landing sites for the verb in V2 environments
  • Notes