Verb Second in Medieval Romance
This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2018.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Verb Second in Medieval Romance; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Source Texts; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Medieval Romance word order and the V2 hypothesis; 1.2 Germanic Verb Second: Theoretical and empirical developments; 1.3 The Medieval Romance `problem;́ 1.3.1 V2 languages?; 1.3.2 Continuity or microvariation?; 1.3.3 V2 and its correlates; 1.3.4 V2 and diachrony; 1.4 Materials and methods; 2: The V2 syntax of Medieval Romance; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Arguments for and against a V2 analysis; 2.2.1 The V2 hypothesis: Arguments and evidence
- 2.2.2 Evidence against V2?2.3 Evaluating the claims; 2.3.1 The preverbal field and inversion phenomena; 2.3.2 Matrix/embedded asymmetries; 2.3.3 V1 and V3 `violations;́ 2.3.4 Diachronic implausibility?; 3: Old Italo-Romance; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Matrix clause syntax; 3.2.1 Verb placement; 3.2.2 The preverbal field and clitic placement; 3.2.3 Subject positions; 3.2.4 Verb First and Verb Third; 3.3 Embedded clause syntax; 3.3.1 Verb placement and SVO; 3.3.2 Embedded main clause phenomena; 3.4 Chaptersummary; 4: Old Gallo-Romance; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Matrix clause syntax; 4.2.1 Verb placement
- 4.2.2 The preverbal field and clitic placement4.2.3 Subject positions; 4.2.4 Verb First and Verb Third; 4.3 Embedded clause syntax; 4.3.1 Verb placement and SVO; 4.3.2 Embedded main clause phenomena; 4.4 Chaptersummary; 5: Old Spanish; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Matrix clause syntax; 5.2.1 Verb placement; 5.2.2 The preverbal field and clitic placement; 5.2.3 Subject positions; 5.2.4 Verb First and Verb Third; 5.3 Embedded clause syntax; 5.3.1 Verb placement and SVO; 5.3.2 Embedded main clause phenomena; 5.3.3 A symmetrical V2 language?; 5.4 Chaptersummary; 6: Old Sardinian; 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Matrix clause syntax6.2.1 Verb placement; 6.2.2 The preverbal field and clitic placement; 6.2.3 One half of the V2 constraint?; 6.2.4 Subject positions; 6.2.5 Verb Third; 6.3 Embedded clause syntax; 6.3.1 Embedded word order in Wolfe (2015c); 6.3.2 New data on Old Sardinian embedded clauses; 6.4 Chaptersummary; 7: Rethinking Medieval Romance V2; 7.1 The syntax of Medieval Romance; 7.1.1 Summary; 7.1.2 Commonalities and the V2 bottleneck; 7.1.3 Fin- and Force-V2 and microvariation; 7.1.3.1 Verb Third.; 7.1.3.2 Verb First; 7.1.3.3 The syntax of si; 7.1.3.4 Matrix/embedded asymmetries
- 7.1.3.5 A note on the V2 correlates7.1.4 The cartography of the clause; 7.2 Changes in clausal structure; 7.2.1 Common syntactic properties: Early Medieval Romance; 7.2.2 The Later Medieval Romance split; 7.2.3 From Fin- to Force-V2; 7.2.4 Old Sardinian and the great leap from Latin to Romance; 7.3 Summary; 8: Conclusion; 8.1 Summary of major findings; 8.2 New perspectives on the Medieval Romance `problem;́ 8.3 Future research; References; Primary texts and sources; Bibliography; Index