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Linglib.Fragments.German.V2

German verb second #

This file records where the finite verb of German moves to the left periphery, as a distribution over sentence types and embedding contexts. German is verb second in root declaratives, wh-questions and yes/no-questions, and in an embedded declarative without a complementizer, Sie sagte, sie würde kommen, where the verb fills the position the complementizer dass otherwise occupies; with the complementizer the clause is verb final, as are embedded questions. The yes/no-question setting records verb fronting that surfaces as V1, with an empty specifier. Exclamatives and imperatives are not verb second. A subordinate form used as a root utterance keeps the verb last: the dass-clause in isolation that Durrell records as a command, wish or exclamation, and the deliberative ob- or wh-question of Gutzmann's minimal pairs.

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German has obligatory verb second in the three root clause types and in a complementizer-less embedded declarative, none in a subordinate form used as a root utterance, and none elsewhere.

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