This book offers the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property. It includes formal theoretical work alongside psycholinguistic and language acquisition studies, examines data from a range of languages, and shows that V2 phenomena are much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought. I can highly recommend the book to any linguist with research interests in any aspect of verb second and its variation, who will surely find unfamiliar data and new theories to be challenged and surprised by. Given its extensive coverage of current and prior approaches to verb second, the volume can also serve as a useful reference manual. The editors' introductory chapter offers a concise but highly informative summary of the main theoretical issues at stake.