A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 19:1 (2019) v, 198 pp.
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine Meklenborg Salvesen plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Challenging Clitics
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 A micro-perspective on Verb-second in Romance and Germanic A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic, Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine (ed.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
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… read more
2014 Preverbal word order in Old English and Old French Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 233–270 | Article
Old English (OE) and Old French (OF) are often referred to as verb-second (V2) languages. While it is the case that the verb may appear in second clause position after a non-subject-initial element in both languages, they are dissimilar in a number of features. In this paper, we consider the… read more
2013 Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters Challenging Clitics, Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine and Hans Petter Helland (eds.), pp. 283–310 | Article
In Old French, all clitic clusters containing objects observed the order ACC–DAT. During the 15th and 16th centuries this order was changed into DAT–ACC in cases where objects of the 1st and 2nd person were involved. This change took place rather abruptly. In this paper I will argue that increased… read more
2013 Topics and the left periphery: A comparison of Old French and Modern Germanic In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 131–172 | Article
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… read more
2013 Why challenging clitics? Some introductory remarks Challenging Clitics, Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine and Hans Petter Helland (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
Linguists have been drawn to the intriguing nature of clitics ever since the golden age of philology in the 19th century. In this paper we aim to provide a brief history of different approaches to clitics, from Wackernagel’s law to modern theories that link clitics to phases. We also present the… read more
2011 Stylistic Fronting and Remnant movement in Old French Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009, Berns, Janine, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer (eds.), pp. 323–342 | Article
In Old and Middle French it is possible to find Stylistic Fronting where both a head and a phrase have been fronted. I have examined SF constructions where the infinitive dire ‘say’ or faire ‘do’ are fronted, in particular the cases where they are preceded by their complement. In order to account… read more