Rethinking Verb Second

by Woods, Rebecca; Wolfe, Sam

• ISBN13: 9780198844303
• ISBN10: 0198844301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-05-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rebecca Woods, Lecturer in Language and Cognition, Newcastle University,Sam Wolfe, Associate Professor of French Linguistics, University of Oxford

Rebecca Woods is Lecturer in Language and Cognition at Newcastle University. During the editing of this volume she was Senior Lecturer in Language Acquisition at the University of Huddersfield, having received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of York in 2016 for her work on the syntax of speech acts, which focuses on embedded verb movement. Her research interests lie in the syntax-semantics interface, especially the syntax and semantics of questions, and first language acquisition, both monolingual and multilingual.

Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. Prior to this he held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford as well as a Visiting Professorship at the University of Padua. His recent publications include Verb Second in Medieval Romance (2018) and he has published on a range of topics within French and comparative Romance linguistics, historical syntax, and formal syntax.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Sam Wolfe and Rebecca Woods
Part I: Classic Case Studies
2. Objects in the German prefield: A view from language production, Markus Bader
3. On the Bottleneck Hypothesis of Verb Second in Swedish, Anders Holmberg
4. Frame setters and microvariation of subject-initial Verb Second, Ciro Greco and Liliane Haegeman
5. Adverbial resumptive particles and Verb Second, Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
6. Rethinking 'residual' Verb Second, Craig Sailor
7. Multiple Feature Inheritance and the phase structure of the left periphery, Phil Branigan
8. The grammatical basis of Verb Second: The case of German, Horst Lohnstein
9. Varieties of dependent Verb Second and verbal mood: A view from Icelandic, Hans-Martin Gartner and Thorhallur Eytorsson
10. The distribution of embedded Verb Second and Verb Third in modern Icelandic, Asgrimur Angantysson
11. The assertion analysis of declarative Verb Second, Marit Julien
12. Verb Second declaratives, assertion, and disjunction revisited, Hans-Martin Gartner and Jens Michaelis
13. A different perspective on embedded Verb Second: Unifying embedded root phenomena, Rebecca Woods
Part II: Diachrony
14. Null subjects in Old Italian, Cecilia Poletto
15. Rethinking Medieval Romance Verb Second, Sam Wolfe
16. Partial Verb Second in Classical Portuguese, Charlotte Galves
17. Object pronoun fronting and the nature of Verb Second in early English, Eric Haeberli, Susan Pintzuk, and Ann Taylor
18. Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh, Marieke Meelen
19. Verb Second and the Left Edge Filling Trigger, Melanie Jouitteau
20. On a diachronic relation between the richness of Tense, Force, and second position effects, Krzysztof Migdalski
21. On the syntax and prosody of Verb Second and Clitic Second, Željko Boškovič
22. Reassessing the historical evidence for general embedded Verb Second, George Walkden and Hannah Booth
23. Embedded Verb Second in the history of German, Svetlana Petrova
Part III: Variation and Acquisition
24. Rethinking Verb Second and Nominative case assignment: New insights from a Germanic variety in Northern Italy, Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan, and Alessandra Tomaselli
25. Parameterizing 'lexical subject-finite verb' inversion across Verb Second languages: On the role of Relativized Minimality at the vP edge, Jan Casalicchio and Federica Cognola
26. Verb Second is syntactic: Verb Third structures in Dinka, Coppe van Urk
27. Verb Second and Verb Third in Modern Eastern Armenian, Alessandra Giorgi and Sona Haroutuynian
28. The scope of embedded Verb Second in modern Yiddish, Molly Diesing and Beatrice Santorini
29. Verb Third in spoken German: A natural order of information, Heike Wiese, Mehmet Tahir Oncu, Hans G. Muller, and Eva Wittenberg
30. Verb Second in Wymysorys, Alexander Andrason
31. Expanding the typology of Verb Second VPE: The case of Kashmiri, Emily Manetta
32. Second and first position in Tohono O'odham auxiliaries, Colleen Fitzgerald
33. Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and acquisition, Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard, and Oystein A. Vangsnes
34. The role of variation of verb placement in the input: Evidence from the acquisition of Verb Second and Verb Final German relative clauses, Emanuela Sanfelici, Corinna Trabandt, and Petra Schulz
35. The role of ambiguity in child errors: A comparison with Dependency Length Minimization, Isaac Gould
36. Rethinking auxiliary doubling in adult and child language, Rebecca Woods and Tom Roeper
References
Index