Abstract
Abstract
This article proposes a new typology of the V2 property,
integrating new data from a corpus of Medieval Romance texts with data from
Rhaeto-Romance, Early Germanic and Modern Germanic. The proposed analysis is
that all V2 systems have a V-movement and phrasal movement trigger on the lowest
left-peripheral head, Fin, and that in a subclass of V2 languages Force also has
these properties. It is argued that the restrictions on and variation in
licensing verb-initial and verb-third clauses within Romance and Germanic V2
systems fall out from the Fin/Force distinction.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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