The partial V2 system of Classical Portuguese
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In this paper we investigate the nature of the partial V2 system of Classical Portuguese. This linguistic period licenses structures with subject inversion, thus suggesting the occurrence of verb movement to the CP system, just like in V2 languages. However, differently from a strict V2 grammar, Classical Portuguese also allows non-V2 linear word orders. Here, based on the left periphery proposed by Rizzi (1997), we give evidence that Classical Portuguese shows verb movement to Fin0, the same head where the verb is moved to in prototypical V2 languages (HAEGEMAN, 1996; MOHR, 2004; ROBERTS, 2004). We argue that the substantial difference between Classical Portuguese and V2 languages is reduced to the presence or not of an EPP feature in Fin0: V2 systems present this feature, while Classical Portuguese would not show it.
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