Pragmatic Factors in Language Chance: XVS and XSV Clauses in Old and Middle English

Bech, Kristin

doi:10.1515/flih.1998.19.1-2.79

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“…(ii) The immediately preverbal constituent in V3 clauses is usually a subject, but not always (Koopman 1996;Pintzuk 1999), and usually pronominal, but not always (Bech 1998(Bech , 2001Haeberli 2002). (iii) The immediately preverbal constituent in V3 clauses is always given information that can be characterized as a familiar topic (Bech 1998(Bech , 2001Westergaard 2005;Hinterhölzl and Petrova 2009;Speyer 2010;van Kemenade and Milićev 2012), and is rarely prosodically prominent (as far as we are able to determine given our lack of access to spoken OE; Speyer 2010). (iv) V2 and V3 are found in main clauses, but not in subordinate clauses (except potentially in a small subset of root-like subordinate clauses; van Kemenade 1997).…”

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Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

Walkden

2017

J Comp German Linguistics

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Certain recently-attested varieties of Germanic V2 languages are known to deviate from the strict V2 requirement characteristic of the standard. This is the case, for example, for Kiezdeutsch, a new German dialect, as well as urban vernacular varieties of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: descriptively speaking, in these varieties, subject-verb inversion may be absent under certain well-defined conditions. In this article I outline those conditions and the type of syntactic analysis required to account for them, claiming that an articulated left periphery is needed to account for the findings. The similarity of the V3 patterns found in these new varieties, which are geographically isolated from each other but which share a characterization in terms of the demographics of their speaker groups, invites a diachronic account in terms of language contact. I argue that transfer cannot account for V3, but that a scenario of sequential simplification and complexification is able to do so. Finally, turning to Old English, which exhibits similar (though not identical) V2/V3 alternations, I argue that a similar synchronic analysis can be upheld and that its diachronic origins may well also have been similar-a case of using the present to inform our approach to the past.

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Section: V2 and V3 In Old Englishmentioning

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Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

Walkden

2017

J Comp German Linguistics

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“…In contrast, the expression of focus on a DP-object has been related to postverbal placement in various studies, most notably by Roberts (1997), Biberauer and Roberts (2005), next to similar interpretations put forward in the non-generative discourse-related literature on OE word order, e.g. Bech (1998).…”

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Focus movement and focus interpretation in Old English

Petrova

Speyer

2011

Lingua

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“…In the next sub-section, I will observe the different cases in contemporary varieties. not always (Koopman 1996;Pintzuk 1999), and usually pronominal, but not always (Bech 1998(Bech , 2001Haeberli 2002)": Hanboken bara LÄSTE Jan i biblioteket.…”

Section: Lp -Subj -V3mentioning

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A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2

Samo

2019

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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My foremost thanks go to my mentors, Luigi Rizzi and Adriana Belletti. My journey to the Left Periphery started in Siena when I was a master's student. I say grazie for these wonderful years in Geneva working under the ERC Advanced Grant 340297 ("SynCart"), which supported my doctoral studies. I would also like to say ‫תודה‬ to Ur Shlonsky for his help and the beautiful conversations about linguistic and non-linguistic subjects. I am thankful for the members of the jury who honoured me to discuss this work: grazie Cecilia Poletto, danke Elisabeth Stark and Eric Haeberli. I gratefully acknowledge all the Linguistics department of Geneva: Giuliano Bocci, Paola Merlo, Luka Nerima, Genoveva Puskás, inter alia. A special köszönöm goes to Eva Capitao. I am grateful to my colleagues, with whom I discussed my (still ongoing

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Pragmatic Factors in Language Chance: XVS and XSV Clauses in Old and Middle English

Cited by 8 publications

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Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

Focus movement and focus interpretation in Old English

A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2

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