In this article, we report on a number of violations of (or exceptions to) the so-called V2
constraint in different variants of Icelandic. The main purpose is to investigate what these …

Circumstantial ('central') adverbials canonically occupy the topological prefield in German,
causing inversion of subject and finite verb. V3 order, with such an adverbial preceding a full …

This article introduces American Swedish (AmSw) into the discussion of the C-domain in
heritage Scandinavian. The study is based on spontaneous speech data from the Swedish …

In this article, it is proposed that different types of apparent “non-V2” arrangements in
Present-Day German matrix clauses which are generally treated independently are similar …

Finite verb placement in German (ic) contact languages has received heightened attention
in recent years. In particular, the occurrence of main clauses with two preverbal constituents …

In this paper, two syntactic configurations are considered that involve V-to-C movement in
present-day German: Verb Second in run-of-the-mill declarative clauses and Verb Second in …

In this paper, it is proposed on the basis of data from German that some of the information-
structural features encoded by the projections located in the clause-internal Split-CP domain …

La grammatica della lingua cimbra rappresenta un laboratorio privilegiato per lo studio della
variazione linguistica in sincronia e in diacronia. La sua condizione di isola germanofona …

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 …

This paper argues that the diachronic rise and fall of verb-second grammars is tied to the
conservative nature of child structure projection and movement postulation, within a …