V-to-I and V2 in subordinate clauses: an investigation of Faroese in relation to Icelandic and Danish

Abstract In this article we investigate the status of two different types of movement in subordinate clauses in Faroese: the movement of the finite verb to a position below the subject but above negation and medial adverbs (V-to-I), and the movement of some XP and the finite verb to positions above the subject (V2). The exact status of these phenomena in contemporary Faroese, a language that has been argued to be undergoing syntactic change, is a matter of dispute; we attempt to clarify this using the methodology of Magnitude Estimation (ME). We extend what is known by presenting the results o... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Heycock, Caroline
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Reihe/Periodikum: The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics
Sprache: Englisch
Anmerkungen: © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
ISSN: 1383-4924
Weitere Identifikatoren: doi: 10.1007/s10828-010-9035-7
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2042971960
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-010-9035-7