Rethinking Verb Second

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-884430-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 980 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1833 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Rebecca

Wolfe, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Sam Wolfe and Rebecca Woods: Introduction

- Part I: Classic Case Studies

- 2: Markus Bader: Objects in the German prefield: A view from language production

- 3: Anders Holmberg: On the Bottleneck Hypothesis of Verb Second in Swedish

- 4: Ciro Greco and Liliane Haegeman: Frame setters and microvariation of subject-initial Verb Second

- 5: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen: Adverbial resumptive particles and Verb Second

- 6: Craig Sailor: Rethinking 'residual' Verb Second

- 7: Phil Branigan: Multiple Feature Inheritance and the phase structure of the left periphery

- 8: Horst Lohnstein: The grammatical basis of Verb Second: The case of German

- 9: Hans-Martin Gärtner and Thórhallur Eyþórsson: Varieties of dependent Verb Second and verbal mood: A view from Icelandic

- 10: Ásgrímur Angantýsson: The distribution of embedded Verb Second and Verb Third in modern Icelandic

- 11: Marit Julien: The assertion analysis of declarative Verb Second

- 12: Hans-Martin Gärtner and Jens Michaelis: Verb Second declaratives, assertion, and disjunction revisited

- 13: Rebecca Woods: A different perspective on embedded Verb Second: Unifying embedded root phenomena

- Part II: Diachrony

- 14: Cecilia Poletto: Null subjects in Old Italian

- 15: Sam Wolfe: Rethinking Medieval Romance Verb Second

- 16: Charlotte Galves: Relaxed Verb Second in Classical Portuguese

- 17: Eric Haeberli, Susan Pintzuk, and Ann Taylor: Object pronoun fronting and the nature of Verb Second in early English

- 18: Marieke Meelen: Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh

- 19: Mélanie Jouitteau: Verb Second and the Left Edge Filling Trigger

- 20: Krzysztof Migdalski: On a diachronic relation between the richness of Tense, Force, and second position effects

- 21: Željko Boškovic: On the syntax and prosody of Verb Second and Clitic Second

- 22: George Walkden and Hannah Booth: Reassessing the historical evidence for general embedded Verb Second

- 23: Svetlana Petrova: Embedded Verb Second in the history of German

- Part III: Variation and Acquisition

- 24: Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan, and Alessandra Tomaselli: Rethinking Verb Second and Nominative case assignment: New insights from a Germanic variety in Northern Italy

- 25: Jan Casalicchio and Federica Cognola: Parameterizing 'lexical subject-finite verb' inversion across Verb Second languages: On the role of Relativized Minimality at the vP edge

- 26: Coppe van Urk: Verb Second is syntactic: Verb Third structures in Dinka

- 27: Alessandra Giorgi and Sona Haroutuynian: Verb Second and Verb Third in Modern Eastern Armenian

- 28: Molly Diesing and Beatrice Santorini: The scope of embedded Verb Second in modern Yiddish

- 29: Heike Wiese, Mehmet Tahir Öncü, Hans G. Müller, and Eva Wittenberg: Verb Third in spoken German: A natural order of information

- 30: Alexander Andrason: Verb Second in Wymysorys

- 31: Emily Manetta: Expanding the typology of Verb Second VPE: The case of Kashmiri

- 32: Colleen Fitzgerald: Second and first position in Tohono O'odham auxiliaries

- 33: Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard, and Øystein A. Vangsnes: Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and acquisition

- 34: Emanuela Sanfelici, Corinna Trabandt, and Petra Schulz: The role of variation of verb placement in the input: Evidence from the acquisition of Verb Second and Verb Final German relative clauses

- 35: Isaac Gould: The role of ambiguity in child errors: A comparison with Dependency Length Minimization

- 36: Rebecca Woods and Tom Roeper: Rethinking auxiliary doubling in adult and child language

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.