Peer-Reviewed Article November 30, 2012
Verb second in Afrikaans: Is this a unitary phenomenon?
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Published in: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics
Publisher: Stellenbosch University • South Africa • 1027-3417 • 2223-9936
Abstract
The Verb Second (V2) phenomenon is a syntactic characteristic which features, to a greater or lesser extent, in all the Germanic languages. What it entails is the obligatory occurrence of finite verbs (Vfs) in clause-second position, following some initial (usually phrasal2)