A different perspective on embedded Verb Second: Unifying embedded root phenomena
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 260096-243685-1281
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Rethinking Verb Second
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198844303
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - English Language and Linguistics
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- Additional information
- Woods was co-editor of this volume, collaborating on the selection, peer review and editing of those chapters which were eventually accepted as original and rigorous enough to be published. Woods was co-author of the introductory chapter, providing a rationale for reconsidering traditional views of verb second (V2) properties and demonstrating that the phenomenon is not, in fact, confined to Germanic but is actually widely attested in other language families cross-linguistically (e.g. Celtic, Romance, Slavonic and Uto-Aztecan). The volume explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental questions that need to be addressed in order to more fully account for the phenomenon than was previously possible. Woods additionally has two chapters in this volume. She is lead author (with Roeper) of Chapter 36 which explores V2 by examining auxiliary doubling in adult and child language, demonstrating that children are sensitive to the interpretive power of verb movement and exploit this option to ask complex, discourse-dependent biased questions. Woods is sole author of Chapter 13 which brings a lesser-studied construction (embedded inverted questions) to bear on how best to account for V2 phenomena. Comparisons are drawn between classic V2 movement in Germanic languages (German and Swedish) and embedded inverted questions in English. The analyses (which rely on recent theoretical accounts of speech act syntax/formal pragmatics) have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the relationship between V2 and perspective-taking in Germanic which improves considerably on previous accounts.
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