Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages

By: de Clercq

While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied. The latter is referred to as 'adverbial resumption' and it also has the character of being a V3 phenomenon. Therefore, the pattern is labelled 'adverbial V3 resumption' or 'adverbial V3.' The present volume is an up-to-date overview of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197651143
• ISBN13: 9780197651148
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages