Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals

• Main Author: Kluck, Marlies (auth)
• Other Authors: de Vries, Mark (auth), Schneider, Stefan (Editor), Glikman, Julie (Editor), Avanzi, Mathieu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology; Grammar, syntax & morphology; comment clause; reporting clause; as-parenthetical; operator; anaphoric so; word order; verb second (V2)
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Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the internal argument of the parenthetical verb is usually missing; there is an optional so/zo element; the construction is island-sensitive. These patterns are explained by means of an operator that is A ́-moved inside the parenthetical, and which can optionally be lexicalized in the first position. The V-final pattern arises when a complementizer is present, which is the case in propositional as-parentheticals.