Germanic, in light of recent developments in research on present-day V2 languages.
Drawing on novel corpus data for Old English, Old Saxon, historical Icelandic, and historical
Yiddish, it shows that there is little support for an analysis which permits embedded V2
outside a narrow subset of contexts, or one which hosts both the verb and the preverbal
constituent within the IP domain ('IP-V2'). The chapter puts forward the tentative suggestion …