Verb-third in early West Germanic : A comparative perspective

Walkden, George

Verb-third in early West Germanic : A comparative perspective

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2015

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Syntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions / Biberauer, Theresa; Walkden, George (ed.). - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. - (Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 15). - pp. 236-248. - ISBN 978-0-19-968792-3

Abstract

This chapter develops an analysis of the alternation between verb-third (V3) and verb-second (V2) in the older West Germanic languages in terms of information-structural considerations. It presents the situation in Old English and Old High German as well as new data from Old Saxon, proposing on the basis of this data that there were (at least) two possible left-peripheral targets for verb-movement in Proto-West Germanic, Force0 and Fin0, with information-structural considerations determining the surface constituent order of neutral declarative clauses. Strict V2, under this account, is a more recent development in Old Saxon and later Old High German.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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Old Saxon, Old English, Old High German, V2, V3, information structure

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WALKDEN, George, 2015. Verb-third in early West Germanic : A comparative perspective. In: BIBERAUER, Theresa, ed., George WALKDEN, ed.. Syntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions. Oxford:Oxford University Press, pp. 236-248. ISBN 978-0-19-968792-3. Available under: doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687923.003.0014

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@incollection{Walkden2015-02-01Verbt-38539,
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  doi={10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687923.003.0014},
  title={Verb-third in early West Germanic : A comparative perspective},
  number={15},
  isbn={978-0-19-968792-3},
  publisher={Oxford University Press},
  address={Oxford},
  series={Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics},
  booktitle={Syntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions},
  pages={236--248},
  editor={Biberauer, Theresa and Walkden, George},
  author={Walkden, George}
}

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