Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages

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While 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.'' 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 and diachronic variation. The book covers Medieval Romance, Old Italian, Old English, diachronic and synchronic varieties of German, varieties of Flemish and Dutch, Icelandic, varieties ofSwedish, and Norwegian. Through analyses of adverbial resumptive V3 orders in Germanic and Romance, the