Evidence for a Verb-Second Phase in Old Portuguese*

Ilza Maria de Oliveira Ribeiro

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Abstract The basic facts related to the verb-second phenomenon have been studied in generative grammar based on data from Modern Germanic languages (except Modern English) and both Old Germanic and Romance languages. There is a consensus among researchers who have developed studies on this phenomenon that the verb-second effects are derived from two rules of movement: a) a rule which moves the finite verb to the second position of the sentence, the verb fronting being obligatory for every root clause: b) a rule which moves any XP constituent (the NP-subject or a VP element or any XP of the sentence [e.g., an adverbial]) to the first position of the sentence. This movement is obligatory for every root declarative clause.

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