Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages

Contents......Page 8
I. PRELIMINARIES......Page 12
1.2 The Germanic languages......Page 14
1.3 Language acquisition and the theory of UG......Page 18
2.1 Introduction......Page 22
2.2 A-bar-movement......Page 23
2.3 A-movement......Page 36
2.4 X°-movement......Page 39
2.5 Restrictions on movement......Page 44
II. VERB MOVEMENT......Page 48
3. Verb Second......Page 50
3.1 Introduction......Page 52
3.2 Verb second—movement of the finite verb into C°......Page 53
3.3 Verb second variations......Page 57
3.4 Verb second explanations......Page 62
3.5 Conclusion......Page 75
4.1 Verb second preceded by a complementiser......Page 76
4.2 Three alternative analyses of general embedded V2......Page 91
4.3 V1 declaratives......Page 98
4.4 Relative positions of the subject and the sentential adverbial......Page 102
4.5 Object shift......Page 108
4.6 Subject-verb agreement......Page 111
4.7 Adverbial adjunction to IP but not to CP......Page 114
4.8 Extraction from the embedded clause......Page 119
4.9 Embedded clauses introduced by which-that or if-that......Page 130
4.10 Embedded V2 in Danish: CP-recursion or topicalisation to AgrP-spec?......Page 135
4.11 Conclusion......Page 140
5. V°-to-I° Movement......Page 142
5.1 Inflection......Page 143
5.2 I°-VP languages with V°-to-I° movement......Page 147
5.3 I°-VP languages without V°-to-I° movement......Page 151
5.4 VP-I° languages......Page 163
5.5 Connection between V2 and V°-to-I° movement......Page 168
5.6 Conclusion......Page 174
III. EXPLETIVE SUBJECTS......Page 176
6.1 Introduction......Page 178
6.2 Licensing of IP-spec by C° or by I°......Page 194
6.3 Licensing of VP-spec......Page 197
6.4 Licensing of the complement of V°......Page 207
6.5 Licensing of IP-spec by a main V°......Page 224
6.6 Alternative analyses......Page 227
6.7 Conclusion......Page 233
7.1 Introduction......Page 235
7.2 It, there, and case assignment......Page 244
7.3 Raising constructions......Page 266
7.4 Conclusion......Page 279
8.1 Summary......Page 280
8.2 Last words......Page 281
References......Page 284
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