Against V2 as a general property of Old Romance languages

This paper revisits the hypothesis that the verb-second property was a shared feature of the Old Romance languages by investigating Old Portuguese. It demonstrates, on the basis of positive empirical evidence, that Old Portuguese allowed clausal configurations that could not have been derived by a v...

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Main Author: Martins, Ana Maria (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/41732
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/41732