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A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
[Linguistic Variation 19:1] 2019
► pp. 1–15
Introduction

A micro-perspective on Verb-second in Romance and Germanic

| University of Oslo

The Verb-second (V2) phenomenon is one of the central issues of modern linguistic theory. This volume examines V2 from a micro-perspective, comparing various languages and periods. At the heart of the work presented here lies the clear assumption that Verb-second is by no means a unitary phenomenon, but rather a heterogenous and rich system that affects languages in various ways.

Article outline
  • 1.A linear model
  • 2.Typology
    • 2.1Old Romance
  • 3.A formal approach
    • 3.1Main-embedded asymmetries
    • 3.2CP-V2 and IP-V2
  • 4.Cartography
    • 4.1The bottleneck
    • 4.2Force-V2 and Fin-V2
  • 5.V2 violations
  • 6.This volume
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References
Published online: 24 September 2019
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The following Old French examples have been retrieved from the Base de français médiéval (ENS de Lyon 2016).

clari Robert de Clari: La Conquête de Constantinople
1924, Philippe Lauer (ed). Paris: Champion. [URL]
eneas1 Anonymous: Eneas
1925, Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave (ed). Paris: Champion. [URL]
graal_cm Anonymous: Queste del saint Graal
2013, Christiane Marchello-Nizia et Alexei Lavrentiev (eds). Lyon: EquipeBFM. [URL]

Examples from La Mort du roi Arthur have been retrieved from this volume:

MortArtu La Mort du roi Arthur
2009, David F. Hult (ed), Paris: Livre de Poche. DOI logoGoogle Scholar

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