[lingtalks] January 25: Line Mikkelsen (Linguistics Colloquium)

[Tara Boswell]

On Monday 25 January at 2pm, Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley;  
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~mikkelsen/) will give a colloquium in  
the UCSD Linguistics Department, in AP&M 4301.

:: Abstract ::

"Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora"

Most work on verb-second order in Germanic languages assumes that the
choice of initial constituent in declarative verb-second clauses is a
matter of textual organization which falls outside the domain of syntax.
In this talk I give evidence that in at least one Germanic language there
are intrasentential syntactic principles that restrict what may occupy
initial position in declarative verb-second clauses. I further show how
these principles bear on one of the central disagreements in the
generative literature on Germanic clause structure, namely whether
subject-initial verb-second clauses have the same structure as
non-subject-initial verb-second clauses.

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