Adverbial resumption in verb second languages / Karen De Clercq [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Clercq, Karen, author.

Series:

Oxford Studies Comparative Syntax

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This volume provides both an accessible and general introduction to verb-third (V3) patterns in V2 languages, as well as an in-depth discussion of the not so well-known V3 patterns that arise with adverbial resumptives. The following languages are covered: Medieval Romance, Old Italian, Old English, diachronic and synchronic varieties of German, varieties of Flemish and Dutch, Icelandic, varieties of Swedish, and Norwegian.

Contents:

Cover

Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages

Copyright

Contents

Part I Presentation of the Volume

Introduction

1. Adverbial Resumption in V2 Languages: The Background

2. Frame Setters and Microvariation of Subject-​Initial Verb Second

Part II Revisiting the Typology of Adverbial Resumption

3. On the Syntax of Fronted Adverbial Clauses in Two Tyrolean Dialects: The Distribution of Resumptive Semm

4. A Generalized Resumptive in the Ghent Variety of East Flemish?

5. Resumptive Adverbs in Old French and Old Occitan

Part III Adverbial Resumption and the Syntax of V2

6. Adverbial Resumption in German from a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective

7. V3 in True V2 Contexts and Adverbial Resumption in Old English

8. Adverbial Resumption and Scope: A Case Study of Norwegian

III.2 Adverbial Resumption and the Articulated Left Periphery of V2

9. Resumption in Medieval Romance: Reconsidering si

10. Why Is It So? An Analysis of the V3 Cases after sí in Old Italian

11. The Syntax of the V3 Particle så in the Swedish Left Periphery

12. The XP-​Þá-​Construction and V2

13. Noncanonical V3 and Resumption in Kiezdeutsch

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: De Clercq, Karen Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages

ISBN:

0-19-765118-6

0-19-765116-X