What is it about?
It is argued that in coordinate structures consisting of conjoined verb-second clauses, certain ellipses and sharing relations are possible because subject-initial V2-clauses do not project CP, but object-initial clauses do. Other evidence points to a fundamental structural asymmetry between these two types of V2-clauses.
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Why is it important?
The evidence presented supports evidence in other analyses not involving coordinate structures that West Germanic has the V2-constraint in subject-initial clauses without these projecting CP, i.e. that there are syntactic asymmetries between clause types that set apart subject-initial clauses from the others.
Perspectives
This analysis supports work that has appeared recently on Danish and other Scandinavian languages, and it brings English closer to syntactic unification with Continental West Germanic.
Dr John R te Velde
Oklahoma State University
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This page is a summary of: A conjunction conspiracy at the West Germanic left periphery, January 2009, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/la.141.06aco.
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