Contents

• 1 Introduction.
• 2 The sociolinguistic background.
• 3 The V2 syntax of Old English.
  • 3.1 Subject-initial sentences.
  • 3.2 Sentences with non-subject topics.
  • 3.3 Sentences with verb movement to C-zero.
  • 3.4 Sentences with true verb-third order.
• 4 Revising Pintzuk's analysis.
• 5 The V2 syntax of the Middle English dialects.
  • 5.1 The southern dialects.
  • 5.2 The northern dialect.
• 6 Further grammatical comparisons of North and South.
  • 6.1 ``Doubly-filled COMP'' sentences.
  • 6.2 A comparative idiom.
• 7 The effect of Scandinavian contact on V2 in the North.
• 8 Dating the CP-V2 grammar.
• Notes
• References
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