A verb’s gotta do what a verb’s gotta do!

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. List of contributors xiii
5. Subordination
6. Wh -movement and integrated parenthetical constructions 3
7. Van as a marker of dissociation 41
8. Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses 69
9. Syntactic versus semantic control 93
10. Movement and Morphology
11. Parametric variation and scrambling in English 131
12. V2 and Holmberg’s Generalization 151
13. The distribution of declarative verb second in Germanic 175
14. A verb’s gotta do what a verb’s gotta do! 203
15. On the correlation between morphology and syntax 219
16. Language Variation and Change
17. Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English 245
18. A structure-based analysis of morphosyntactic regularities in language contact 273
19. Syntax and Semantics
20. Swiping in Germanic 289
21. The ambiguity of weak reflexive pronouns in English and German 317
22. ‘Binominal each -constructions’ (BECs) in German and English 343
23. References 373
24. Name index 393
25. Subject index 399