Re: V2 (plus Géarthnuns serendipity)

Kou wrote:

>> Other languages with short, clitic-like, V2 auxiliaries include some of
>> the South Slavic languages of the Balkans, among them Serbo-Croatian.
>
>Perhaps that could be something the speakers picked up during their eastward
>schlep across Europe and Asia before they settled.
You mean the Géarthnuns picking this up from the Slavs, I take it?  If so,
this would have to depend on when the Géarthnuns came through.  AFAIK,
second-position clitic auxiliaries are a relatively recent innovation in
South Slavic--say, within the last few centuries.  Russian certainly
doesn't have them, and I don't think Old Church Slavonic did either,
though I may be wrong.  Perhaps Ivan knows...

Matt.