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- Title
The rise of verb-second.
- Authors
Los, Bettelou
- Abstract
This paper provides some historical background of the rise of verb-second in Germanic by data from the earliest Germanic language of which we have authentic texts (rather than slavish translations from Latin): Old English (ca. 700-1100). The rise of verb-second can be seen as activating the C-head (i) by movement of another head V, in order to demarcate a focus domain, and (ii) by merging a 'bespoke' element, a complementizer. The rise of verb-second, then, is seen to work in tandem with the rise of hypotaxis, in which correlative, paratactic pairs of clauses develop into main clause/subclause configurations.
- Subjects
VERB (Periodical); GERMANIC languages; COMPLEMENTIZERS (Grammar); OLD English language; LINGUISTS
- Publication
Dutch Linguistics / Nederlandse Taalkunde, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
1384-5845
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/nedtaa2016.2.blos