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On the distribution and illocution of V2 in Scandinavian that-clauses.

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Author

  • Anna-Lena Wiklund
  • Kristine Bentzen
  • Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson
  • Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir

Summary, in English

This paper investigates the distribution of embedded verb second in Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish. Two conclusions can be drawn from the study. First, none of the Scandinavian languages can be said to display generalized embedded verb second across the board. There are varieties of Faroese and Icelandic that display restrictions of the kind found in the other Scandinavian languages. In these varieties, non-subject initial verb second is dispreferred in environments that are known to resist root phenomena. Second, it is shown that the definitions of assertion proposed in the literature cannot discern V2 from non-V2 word orders.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

1914-1938

Publication/Series

Lingua

Volume

119

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Illocutionary force
  • Assertion
  • Scandinavian
  • Verb movement
  • Verb second

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0024-3841