Re: V2

FFlores wrote:

> Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...> wrote:
>
> > V2 is distinct from, say, SVO, in that the verb always comes after the
> > first constituent (roughly, the first phrase) in the sentence, which may be
> > the subject, or it may be something else.  All of the Germanic languages except
> > English are V2.
>
> Plus (since Dale probably didn't read the thread about V2 langs that
> went on a couple of months ago), English has preserved some V2 traces,
> in phrases like 'Never did I thought...'. And maybe that's also the
> origin of 'There is...'/'There exists...'/'Here is...'?
True -- although some dialects treat the latter forms with
dummy-subjects as real subjects, with which the verbs
must agree.

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