Zur Entwicklung von Verbzweit im Fragesatz. Die Evidenz im Althochdeutschen

Petrová, Světlana; Solf, Michael

doi:10.1515/bgsl.2009.003

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“…Note that V2 has already been generalized in wh-interrogatives at the stage of development represented in the Tatian text (cf. Petrova and Solf, 2009). Moreover, as we have seen above, there is variation in one functional domain of the opposition described for V1 and V2, namely in the domain of the coordinative type of discourse relations.…”

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From V1 to V2 in West Germanic

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Petrova

2010

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Section: The Development Of Generalized V2 In Germanmentioning

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“…The V2-pattern was already generalized in interrogative clauses in the oldest OHG texts (Petrova and Solf, 2009). But we find systematic variation between V1-and V2-orders in declarative clauses in OHG.…”

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From V1 to V2 in West Germanic

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Petrova

2010

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“…Even though verb movement still does not play an unambiguously crucial role in distinguishing main and embedded clauses, it has been established in a number of studies that V-to-C movement appears to be the dominant pattern both in declarative (3) and interrogative (4) clauses in this phase (cf., inter alia, Behaghel 1932;Lippert 1974;Admoni 1990;Dittmer 1992;Dittmer and Dittmer 1998;Greule 2000;Hinterhölzl and Petrova 2005;Petrova 2006;Axel(-Tober) 2007Petrova and Solf 2009;Schlachter 2012;Szczepaniak 2013). In the attested V2 declarative main clauses of EOHG, virtually any element can be fronted to a dedicated specifier in the left periphery, e.g.…”

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How theoretical is your (historical) syntax? Towards a typology of Verb-Third in Early Old High German

Catasso

2021

J Comp German Linguistics

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Verb-Third (V3) constructions, i.e. root clauses displaying more than one element in their prefield, have been attested throughout the history of German. In this paper, I discuss some methodological issues related to the investigation of this structure in Early Old High German (EOHG, eighth to ninth century). In this language stage, the linear syntax of matrix clauses is very unstable—mainly due to the not-yet complete systematization of the V2/verb-final distinction and to the considerable amount of extraposition in main clauses—which makes the detection of this construction in the available texts particularly challenging. Moreover, little substantial and reliable prose data are extant for this period. In order to get a realistic picture of the distribution of the phenomenon at stake in EOHG, it is therefore necessary to evaluate the data by means of diagnostic tests for verb movement and only consider those cases in which the verb is unambiguously located in C and the preverbal area hosts multiple (head or non-head) elements. I will show that: (1) some of the patterns that are usually assumed to be good candidates for the category of V3 in the relevant literature are never attested in the diagnostic dataset; (2) a typology consisting of five non-correlative and three correlative diagnostic V3 constructions can be identified on the basis of an approach based on replicable methods; (3) some of these patterns display historical continuity; (4) non-prose texts are inadequate for syntactic investigations.

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Hauptsätze mit Verbspäterstellung im Althochdeutschen: Bestand, Distribution, Interpretation

Petrova

2023

Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur

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This corpus study investigates well-known violations of the verb second constraint in Old High German main clauses. Starting from the observation that the attested orders are overwhelmingly ambiguous regarding the position of the verb and the preverbal constituents, the paper applies methods for identifying diagnostic datasets which can be clearly distinguished in terms of structure and use. Two types of diagnostic non-verb-second orders are tested, namely verb-final clauses in which no verb movement applies, and verb-third clauses in which the verb as well as all preverbal categories occupy specified positions in the left periphery of the clause. The result is that diagnostic evidence for any of the datasets is sparse in native prose, and that especially diagnostic verb-third orders are not sufficiently distinguishable against their Latin originals. In addition, both diagnostic patterns interfere in use, suggesting that they represent less clearly differentiated, unproductive patterns, used for special stylistic purposes.

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Zur Entwicklung von Verbzweit im Fragesatz. Die Evidenz im Althochdeutschen

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From V1 to V2 in West Germanic

From V1 to V2 in West Germanic

How theoretical is your (historical) syntax? Towards a typology of Verb-Third in Early Old High German

Hauptsätze mit Verbspäterstellung im Althochdeutschen: Bestand, Distribution, Interpretation

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