Re: V2

Daniel Calegari wrote:
> Sorry.
> Are English a V2 language?
Nope.  You can say "Yesterday, I gave the book to John" where "gave" is
the THIRD constituent.

> I thing it is, of course the normal order is SVO, is it?
That's different than V2.  Remember, English can have SAdvVO.

> I read the Greensberg's Universals of Language and also German language has
> some V2 constructions.
German is rigidly V2 in independent clauses.  In subordinate clauses,
it's verb-final, something like "I know that you the book to Daniel
yesterday gave", where the independent clause ("I know [it]") is V2,
while the subordinate clause ("You the book to Daniel yesterday gave")
is verb-final.  The Scandinavian langs are rigidly V2 in all clauses, so
that they'd say something like "I know that you gave the book to Daniel
yesterday" as well as orders like "I know that yesterday gave you the
book to Daniel".

> Or are you are talking about strict V2 order? Are there some language too
> strict ?
Too strict?  What would you consider TOO strict?

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