Re: V2

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...'?


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/