Abstract
In colloquial Norwegian and Swedish, various constituents of the middle or pre-field (i.e., IP and CP) can appear with a correlate in the sentential right periphery. This chapter describes peripheral doubling in Scandinavian introducing the new concept of right peripheral doubling (RPD) in addition to the better known phenomena of left dislocation (LD) and right dislocation (RD). Whereas both RD and LD appear to be quite widespread across languages and language areas, the RPD construction appears to be a somewhat more exotic phenomenon. In a wider Germanic context RPD appears to be absent in the German and Dutch language areas, again according to Askedal. The phenomenon has been investigated from a mainly Norwegian perspective, focusing on argumental doubling. The chapter paves some ground which can be exploited in future investigations of peripheral syntax in Scandinavian as well as other languages. Keywords: left dislocation (LD); peripheral doubling; right dislocation (RD); right peripheral doubling (RPD); Scandinavian
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