Article outline

• 2.1The criterial approach to scope-discourse semantics
  • 2.1.1Focus adjacency and residual V2
  • 2.1.2Towards a peripheral criterion
• 2.2V2 as the sum of residual V2s
  • 2.2.1Towards an ideal mechanism
  • 2.2.2Scrambling: No “bottleneck effect” in FinP but standard locality principles
    • 2.2.2.1On scrambling
    • 2.2.2.2Standard locality principles and V2
    • 2.2.2.3Scrambling in German root clauses and the features of the verb
  • 2.2.3Residual V2s in V2 languages
    • 2.2.3.1FocusV2
    • 2.2.3.2Topic*V2
    • 2.2.3.3ModV2
    • 2.2.3.4ForceV2
    • 2.2.3.5Int-V2
    • 2.2.3.6A sum(mary) of residual V2s: What about the subject?
• 2.3On subject initial clauses
  • 2.3.1A subject criterion
  • 2.3.2Is a subject always a topic?
  • 2.3.3History of V2 and subject-initial clauses
  • 2.3.4Towards a typology of V2 languages in subject-initial clauses: Some evidence
    • 2.3.4.1Spec-Head configuration in SpecSubjP: Evidence from Swiss Romansh varieties and subject clitics
    • 2.3.4.2The verb remains in the IP: Icelandic V3 adverbs
    • 2.3.4.3Head trough SubjP, but the subject remains (targets) a lower position
    • 2.3.4.4A typology of Subject-initial clauses in V2 languages
• 2.4Summing up: Towards a typology of criterial V2s?
• Notes