Speculations on Verb Second

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. A note on the aspect-syntax interface 1
3. What Bavarian Negative Concord Reveals about the Syntactic Structure of German 13
4. On the morphosyntactic nature of the sequence “Aux+Past Participle” in Italian 25
5. TI: A note on modal passives 33
6. The syntax of nominatives in SOV Germanic 41
7. On the COMP of Relatives 51
8. Verbal chain and verbal cluster: a discussion between linguist A and linguist B 61
9. Subject/object asymmetries in German null-topic constructions and the status of specCP 75
10. On a difference between English and Italian ‘Complement Object Deletion’ contructions 85
11. A Note on Bars and Barriers 93
12. Auxiliaries and sentence structure in Romanian 101
13. Onset clusters in Greek 113
14. NP-movement ‘across’ secondary objects 125
15. Floating Quantifiers in Germanic 137
16. Generative grammar in Italy 147
17. Particles, Prepositions, and Verbs 153
18. Non-overt subjects in diary contexts 167
19. Datives in German “ECM”-constructions 175
20. A principle of global binding 187
21. On the Fate of Stray Syllables 199
22. Agreement and variables 211
23. Assumptions about asymmetric coordination in German 221
24. On bare infinitivals in Swedish 237
25. The segmental spine and the non-existence of [±ATR] 247
26. What ever happened to dialect B? 259
27. Why noun-complement clauses are barriers 265
28. Some thoughts on the cycle 279
29. Remarks on headless partitives and case in Turkish 285
30. Pork without pigs 305
31. Old heads and new heads 317
32. A new formalization for locality theory 323
33. On empty theta-marked subjects in Romance and Germanic languages 331
34. Readjustment rules in Somali plural formation 343
35. Reflexives and beyond: non-local anaphora in Italian revisited 351
36. The semantic nature of some Romance prepositions 363
37. Speculations on Verb Second 375
38. Some notes on VP-fronting and head government 387
39. Züritüütsch umlaut and the non-existence of the feature [tense] 397
40. Across-the-board binding meets verb second 409
41. D-projections and N-projections in Norwegian 419
42. COMP° as a licensing head: an argument based on cliticization 433
43. The clitic group in prosodic phonology 447
44. Are they parasitic gaps? 455