What is it about?
This is an analysis of the syntax of verb-second constructions in German and Yiddish.
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Why is it important?
My findings strengthen the arguments for an asymmetry in verb-second clauses first observed by Travis's 1984 dissertation, and argued extensively by J. W. Zwart for Dutch.
Perspectives
Yiddish, as a verb-second West Germanic language, provides further evidence that West Germanic has more than one verb position in finite, V-2 clauses. This way of analyzing West Germanic allows for a better derivational approach to its syntax and is better able to account for all the properties of the West Germanic verb-second property.
Dr John R te Velde
Oklahoma State University
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This page is a summary of: Arguments for two verb-second clause types in Germanic, January 1996, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cilt.137.04vel.
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