Verb second and its deviations: An argument for feature scattering in the left periphery
| dc.contributor.author | Hsu, Brian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-15T17:43:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-15T17:43:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article focuses on the analysis of verb-second (V2) requirements in light of evidence that the clausal left periphery contains a series of functional projections in a fixed hierarchy (Rizzi 1997; Benincà & Poletto 2004; among many others). I discuss previous approaches to V2, the bottleneck effect and stacked head theories, and argue that they are generally unable to account for a variety of “relaxed” V2 systems that allow V3 or V4 in some contexts. I propose a new analysis of variation in the strictness of V2 in terms of the feature scattering hypothesis (Giorgi & Pianesi 1996); languages can vary in the number of functional category features that are bundled on individual heads. This allows a straightforward account for the attested typology of relaxed V2 systems, and a new explanation for cross-linguistic variation in the instantiation of functional projections. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5334/gjgl.132 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11384 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | |
| dc.title | Verb second and its deviations: An argument for feature scattering in the left periphery | |
| dc.type | Article |