Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages by Karen De Cle... - 9780197651155

Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second LanguagesAuthor(s): Karen De Clercq, Liliane Haegeman, Terje Lohndal, Christine Meklenborg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197651155, 978-0197651155\nSynopsis\nWhile 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.' \n The present volume is an up-to-date overview of the subject featuring case studies of individual languages that display certain patterns of V3. The authors discuss this pattern in relation to several different languages, addressing among other things issues of microvariation in contemporary varieties an.