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Coordinate verb-second clauses reveal the structure of the left periphery in West Germanic.

What is it about?

It is argued that in coordinate structures consisting of conjoined verb-second clauses, certain ellipses and sharing relations are possible because subject-initial V2-clauses do not project CP, but object-initial clauses do. Other evidence points to a fundamental structural asymmetry between these two types of V2-clauses.

Why is it important?

The evidence presented supports evidence in other analyses not involving coordinate structures that West Germanic has the V2-constraint in subject-initial clauses without these projecting CP, i.e. that there are syntactic asymmetries between clause types that set apart subject-initial clauses from the others.

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