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Fred Weerman, The V-2 conspiracy – a synchronic and diachronic analysis of verbal positions in Germanic languages. (Publications in Language Sciences, 31.) Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1989. Pp. 263.

In recent years the V-2 constraint has become one of the most thoroughly studied aspects of Germanic syntax within the generative framework (see Haider & Prinzhorn, 1986). Despite this fact, we are far from having a complete analysis of V-2, mainly because of the complexity of the factors which give rise to such a clear and easily recognizable word order restriction. In these circumstances, the book by Weerman is extremely interesting for at least two reasons: