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AGR and V2

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Summary, in English

In this communication, we add another piece of evidence in favor of a parametric split to do with AGR (Holmberg 2010) between Insular (ISc) and Mainland Scandinavian (MSc); the extended possibility of non-subject fronting in embedded clauses, here referred to as Extended verb second (xV2), available in ISc, unavailable in MSc. By adding this phenomenon to the list of AGR-related differences between the two language groups, we are reintroducing verb movement, albeit in the shape of a particular type of verb second rather than in terms of V-to-I movement, a shift in perspective that we believe will increase our understanding of the cluster effects at issue if accepted as a possibility. In particular, we propose that the features that are responsible for the split must be located in the C- rather than the T system of the clause.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

57-68

Publication/Series

Theoretical Linguistics

Volume

36

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

De Gruyter

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1613-4060