Adverbial resumptive particles and Verb Second

Abstract

All modern Verb Second languages have some sort of resumptive strategy where a fronted element is followed by a resumptive element, pushing the finite verb to third position. This chapter investigates adverbial resumption in a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. A fundamental difference is made between specialized and generalized resumptive particles, The chapter shows that there is a resumptive cline which represents an implicational hierarchy. While all the languages that have been investigated accept a resumptive element after a fronted adverbial clause, only some accept resumption after a fronted generalized adverb. This cline seems to be representative also for the diachronic development of the resumptive structure.

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