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In this talk, I will present the results of work on the GV2 (general embedded V2) property of Icelandic (work carried out jointly with Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson). We show that the more extended availability of V2 seems to be restricted to fronting of stage- or contrastive topics and that even a very liberal variety of Icelandic displays LV2 (limited embedded V2) properties upon closer examination. We propose that the more extended availability of V2, including “spurious” Stylistic Fronting, targets an inner TopicP which is licensed by AGR in Fin. If this is correct, verb movement may be reintroduced to the list of AGR-related differences in Scandinavian (Holmberg 2009), although in the shape of a more extended V2 rather than in terms of V-to-I movement.

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Contact: Sten Vikner, sten.vikner@hum.au.dk
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