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The place of Swedish in word order typology
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Arthur Holmer
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September 25, 2009
Abstract
This paper outlines the basic facts of Swedish clause-level word order, in particular the distribution of the verb-second (V2) phenomenon. A sample of other (Germanic and non-Germanic) V2 languages is discussed, and possible correlates of embedded V2 are explored. Finally, it is claimed that cross-linguistic facts suggest that embedded V2 does not involve recursion of a discrete category C (the prototypical complementizer position), but rather that what is referred to as C in the generative V2 literature is a trivial clustering of syntactic features onto a single (unlabelled) head.
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2006-01-01
© Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München
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Keywords for this article
embedded verb-second;
subordinate clauses;
Germanic;
Kashmiri;
complementizer
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