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Publication details [#65611]

Kühl, Karoline and Jan Heegård Petersen. 2018. Word Order in American Danish Declaratives with a Non-Subject Initial Constituent. Journal of language contact 11 (3) : 413–440.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

declarative | language contact | subject | verb | word order

Language as a subject

Danish, American, North

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This article explores the positioning of subject and finite verb in topicalized, i.e. non-subject initial declarative main clauses in North American Danish. Based on a sample of ca. 1700 tokens of topicalized declarative clauses, it heeds a general stability of V2 in North American Danish. To read non-V2 cases, it uses (socio)linguistic factors.