It has been argued that verb movement to the left periphery is a regular feature of Gothic interrogative clauses. This articles presents a review of all relevant cases from the extant corpus and proposes that leftward verb movement can actually be assumed for direct interrogative clauses only, while indirect ones tend to retain a SV order.
A note on the syntax of interrogation in Gothic
Giuseppe Pagliarulo
2023-01-01
Abstract
It has been argued that verb movement to the left periphery is a regular feature of Gothic interrogative clauses. This articles presents a review of all relevant cases from the extant corpus and proposes that leftward verb movement can actually be assumed for direct interrogative clauses only, while indirect ones tend to retain a SV order.
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