TY - BOOK AU - Freitag,Constantin TI - Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon: Evidence from grammar and processing T2 - Studia grammatica , SN - 9783110725018 AV - P281 .F74 2021 U1 - 415.6 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - German language KW - Verb phrase KW - Verb KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Satzverarbeitung KW - Verbzweit-Bewegung KW - Sentence Processing KW - V2-Movement N1 - Frontmatter --; Open-Access-Transformation in Linguistics --; Preface --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Figures --; Abbreviations --; 1 Introduction --; Part I: The grammatical perspective on V2-movement --; 2 The Syntax of V2 --; 3 The V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis --; Part II: The role of V2-movement in sentence processing --; 4 Basics of sentence processing --; 5 Processing of German clauses --; 6 Experimental investigations of the V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis --; 7 Peculiarities of processing V2-clauses --; 8 Grand summary and conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; Open Access; Issued also in print N2 - This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725018 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110725018 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110725018/original ER -