played the children before school soccer. (e) *Vor der Schule Fußball spielten die Kinder im Park. Before school soccer played the children in the park (f) *Fußball die Kinder spielten vor der Schule im Park. Soccer the children played before school in the park. Classical accounts of verb second (V2) In major theoretical research on V2 properties, researchers discussed that verb-final orders found in German and Dutch embedded clauses suggest that there is an underlying SOV order with specific syntactic movements rules that changes the underlying SOV order to derive a surface form where the finite verb is in the second position of the clause. We first see a "verb preposing" rule which moves the finite verb to the left most position in sentence, then a "constituent preposing" rule which moves a constituent in front of the finite verb. Following these two rules will always result with the finite verb in second position. "I like the man" (a) Ich den Mann mag --> Underlying form in Modern German I the man like (b) mag ich den Mann --> Verb movement to left edge like I the man (c) den Mann mag ich --> Constituent moved to left edge the man like I Non-finite verbs and embedded clauses Non-finite verbs The V2 principle regulates the position of finite verbs only; its influence on non-finite verbs (infinitives, participles, etc.) is indirect. Non-finite verbs in V2 languages appear in varying positions depending on the language. In German and Dutch, for instance, non-finite verbs appear after the object (if one is present) in clause final position in main clauses (OV order). Swedish and Icelandic, in contrast, position non-finite verbs after the finite verb but before the object (if one is present) (VO order). That is, V2 operates on only the finite verb. V2 in embedded clauses (In the following examples, finite verb forms are in bold, non-finite verb forms are in italics and subjects are underlined.) Germanic languages vary in the application of V2 order in embedded clauses. They fall into three groups. V2 in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese In these languages, the word order of clauses is generally fixed in two patterns of conventionally numbered positions. Both end with positions for (5) non-finite verb forms, (6) objects, and (7), adverbials. In main clauses, the V2 constraint holds. The finite verb must be in position (2) and sentence adverbs in position (4). The latter