V(>)2 in de declaratieve hoofdzin in de Frans-Vlaamse dialecten

This article reports on the position of the finite verb in declarative main clauses in French Flemish, a group of dialects which belong to the West Flemish dialect group, but which are overarched by Standard French. We transcribed recordings of 52 different locations in Northern France. In this article, we present the first general results on the linear position of the finite verb in French Flemish in the corpus, following the generative tradition, by giving quantitative results and representative examples. We especially focus on the common V2 violations in French Flemish, in which the verb ta... Mehr ...