This paper investigates clausal constituent order in Estonian, a language often described in
the literature as exhibiting a verb-second “tendency”. We present a corpusbased study of …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

Clauses can fulfil various functions in discourse; in most cases, the form of the clause is
indicative of its discourse function. The discourse functions (such as making statements or …

Corpus linguistics can be divided into two major avenues of research—corpus-based:
Searching a corpus based on preexisting hypotheses or intuitions, and corpus-driven: An …

The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative
literature (eg Sigurðsson 1990, Franco 2008), and such structures are known to be more …

The paper investigates unembedded hwæþer-questions in Old English (OE). We argue that
they represent an intermediate stage in the development of hwæþer 'which of the two'to …

In this paper, we present the results of a large-scale corpus study of so-called V3 word
orders in the history of German. The umbrella term 'V3'will be used to refer to main clauses …

There have been many contributions to the understanding of how and why the non-subject-
initial verb second (V2) phenomenon (ie subject-verb inversion) declined in Middle English …

This paper identifies a micro-cue correlating to verb second word order (V2) in two closely
related Medieval Romance languages. As V2 is asymmetrically distributed in main rather …

Old French is considered by many to have been a verb-second (V2) language. Furthermore,
13th century Old French featured a V2 system with strong restrictions on the prefield …