Rethinking Verb Second
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 March 2020
- ISBN 9780198844303
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages980 pages
- Size 246x175x60 mm
- Weight 1854 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book offers the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property. It includes formal theoretical work alongside psycholinguistic and language acquisition studies, examines data from a range of languages, and shows that V2 phenomena are much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought.
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This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
I can highly recommend the book to any linguist with research interests in any aspect of verb second and its variation, who will surely find unfamiliar data and new theories to be challenged and surprised by. Given its extensive coverage of current and prior approaches to verb second, the volume can also serve as a useful reference manual. The editors' introductory chapter offers a concise but highly informative summary of the main theoretical issues at stake.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Classic Case Studies
Objects in the German prefield: A view from language production
On the Bottleneck Hypothesis of Verb Second in Swedish
Frame setters and microvariation of subject-initial Verb Second
Adverbial resumptive particles and Verb Second
Rethinking 'residual' Verb Second
Multiple Feature Inheritance and the phase structure of the left periphery
The grammatical basis of Verb Second: The case of German
Varieties of dependent Verb Second and verbal mood: A view from Icelandic
The distribution of embedded Verb Second and Verb Third in modern Icelandic
The assertion analysis of declarative Verb Second
Verb Second declaratives, assertion, and disjunction revisited
A different perspective on embedded Verb Second: Unifying embedded root phenomena
Part II: Diachrony
Null subjects in Old Italian
Rethinking Medieval Romance Verb Second
Relaxed Verb Second in Classical Portuguese
Object pronoun fronting and the nature of Verb Second in early English
Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh
Verb Second and the Left Edge Filling Trigger
On a diachronic relation between the richness of Tense, Force, and second position effects
On the syntax and prosody of Verb Second and Clitic Second
Reassessing the historical evidence for general embedded Verb Second
Embedded Verb Second in the history of German
Part III: Variation and Acquisition
Rethinking Verb Second and Nominative case assignment: New insights from a Germanic variety in Northern Italy
Parameterizing 'lexical subject-finite verb' inversion across Verb Second languages: On the role of Relativized Minimality at the vP edge
Verb Second is syntactic: Verb Third structures in Dinka
Verb Second and Verb Third in Modern Eastern Armenian
The scope of embedded Verb Second in modern Yiddish
Verb Third in spoken German: A natural order of information
Verb Second in Wymysorys
Expanding the typology of Verb Second VPE: The case of Kashmiri
Second and first position in Tohono O'odham auxiliaries
Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and acquisition
The role of variation of verb placement in the input: Evidence from the acquisition of Verb Second and Verb Final German relative clauses
The role of ambiguity in child errors: A comparison with Dependency Length Minimization
Rethinking auxiliary doubling in adult and child language
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