V2 And Cp/Cp
Sten Vikner, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette Nyvad · Language Science Press eBooks · 2017
As in \citet{NyvadEtAl2016}, we will explore a particular derivation of (embedded) V2, in terms of a cP/CP-distinction, which may be seen as a version of the CP-recursion analysis (\citealt{deHaanWeerman1986,Vikner1995} and many others). The idea is that because embedded V2 clauses do not allow extraction, whereas other types of CP-recursion clauses do \citep{ChristensenEtAl2013escape,ChristensenEtAl2013processing,ChristensenNyvad2014}, CP-recursion in embedded V2 is assumed to be fundamentally different from other kinds of CP-recursion, in that main clause V2 and embedded V2 involve a CP (``big CP''), whereas other clausal projections above IP are instances of cP (``little cP'').