NDLI: Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

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Author	Walkden, George
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Certain recently-attested varieties of Germanic V2 languages are known to deviate from the strict V2 requirement characteristic of the standard. This is the case, for example, for Kiezdeutsch, a new German dialect, as well as urban vernacular varieties of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: descriptively speaking, in these varieties, subject-verb inversion may be absent under certain well-defined conditions. In this article I outline those conditions and the type of syntactic analysis required to account for them, claiming that an articulated left periphery is needed to account for the findings. The similarity of the V3 patterns found in these new varieties, which are geographically isolated from each other but which share a characterization in terms of the demographics of their speaker groups, invites a diachronic account in terms of language contact. I argue that transfer cannot account for V3, but that a scenario of sequential simplification and complexification is able to do so. Finally, turning to Old English, which exhibits similar (though not identical) V2/V3 alternations, I argue that a similar synchronic analysis can be upheld and that its diachronic origins may well also have been similar—a case of using the present to inform our approach to the past.
Starting Page	49
Ending Page	81
Page Count	33
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2017-02-16
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Language contact Verb-second Verb-third New Germanic varieties Old English Linguistics Germanic Languages Comparative Linguistics Syntax Theoretical Linguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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