Verb Second : : Grammar Internal and Grammar External Interfaces / / ed. by Horst Lohnstein, Antonios Tsiknakis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bauke, Leah S.,; Bayer, Josef,; Freitag, Constantin,; Freywald, Ulrike,; Hinterhölzl, Roland,; Jacobs, Joachim,; Lohnstein, Horst,; Petrova, Svetlana,; Poletto, Cecilia,; Sabel, Joachim,; Sode, Frank,; Staratschek, Nathalie,; Taigel, Sonja,; Truckenbrodt, Hubert,; Tsiknakis, Antonios,
• HerausgeberIn: Lohnstein, Horst,; Tsiknakis, Antonios,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE] , 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 451 p.)

This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs. diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages.New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic st...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Form and function of verb second – an overview
• A grammar competition analysis of V2 phenomena in second language acquisition
• How much verb moves to second position?
• Notes on the left periphery of V2 complement clauses in German: Complementiser drop and complementiser doubling
• Assertive potential, speaker evidence and embedded V2
• What kind of main clause phenomenon is V2 in German?
• The left periphery as interface – On verb second and finiteness interaction
• Variation and change in the licensing of dependent V2 in German
• On the licensing of null subjects in Old Venetian
• Verb third as Cluster movement in German
• On the role of the left periphery in the interpretation of causal Wo-VE-clauses
• Parentheticals, root phenomena, and V2 in German
• Verb movement and topicalization in German
• Addresses
• Index