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How to define relaxed V2 languages and how to distinguish them from non-V2 languages: A reply to Brandtler (2014)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2015

Federica Cognola
Federica Cognola*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Via Tomaso Gar, 14, 38122 Trento, Italy. [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper provides evidence for the idea that relaxed verb-second (V2) languages exist and exhibt specific properties which distinguish them from both strict V2 and non-V2 languages. The identification of the relaxed subtype of V2 languages implies that V2 should not be understood as a linear restriction, but as an abstract rule involving the movement of the finite verb to a head of the left periphery in all main clauses.

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competing grammarsMòchenosubject–verb inversionsyntaxverb movement
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Short Communication
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , May 2015 , pp. 93 - 100
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2015 

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