In this chapter I will consider the Verb Second (V2) system of Old Italian (OI) and analyze it as a “pragmatic” type of V2, as I already proposed in Poletto (2014): in OI the V2 structure must not only obey the purely syntactic restriction of occupying the CP layer but also pragmatic conditions requiring that the elements in the CP can only have a specific pragmatic function that is imposed by the organization of information structure, mirrored in the layering of the left periphery itself.

Why is it so? An analysis of V3 cases after sí in Old Italian

Cecilia Poletto
2023

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In this chapter I will consider the Verb Second (V2) system of Old Italian (OI) and analyze it as a “pragmatic” type of V2, as I already proposed in Poletto (2014): in OI the V2 structure must not only obey the purely syntactic restriction of occupying the CP layer but also pragmatic conditions requiring that the elements in the CP can only have a specific pragmatic function that is imposed by the organization of information structure, mirrored in the layering of the left periphery itself.
2023
Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages
9780197651155
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