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Observations on extraction from V2 clauses in Scandinavian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2010

Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson ,
Kristine Bentzen  and
Anna-Lena Wiklund
Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson
Affiliation:
Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. [email protected], [email protected]
Kristine Bentzen
Affiliation:
CASTL, Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway. [email protected]
Anna-Lena Wiklund
Affiliation:
Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

This short communication presents a general overview of facts concerning wh-extraction from V2 clauses in the Scandinavian languages. While extraction from V2 clauses with a fronted non-subject is impossible in all of these languages, three classes can be distinguished with regard to extraction from subject-initial V2 clauses.

Keywords

extractionScandinavianverb second
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Short Communications
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , December 2010 , pp. 299 - 309
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2010

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