Abstract
Left dislocation is a common feature in the Nordic languages. In main clauses, a lexical noun phrase is positioned in a dislocated position in the left periphery, while a pronoun occurs in the clause-internal, prefield position, i.e., in the position preceding the finite verb. This is described by Faarlund et al (1997:904-5) for Norwegian, Teleman et al (1999 4:440–447) for Swedish and Hansen and Heltoft (2011:1828) for Danish.
Highlights
Left dislocation is a common feature in the Nordic languages
Since it is generally acknowledged that left dislocation in main clauses exists in all the Nordic languages, this was not tested in the ScanDiaSyn survey
Unlike Danish, we only find left dislocation in at/att ‘that’-clauses, which are already known for allowing main clause word order in certain semantic contexts
Summary
A lexical noun phrase is positioned in a dislocated position in the left periphery, while a pronoun occurs in the clause-internal, prefield position, i.e., in the position preceding the finite verb. This is described by Faarlund et al (1997:904-5) for Norwegian, Teleman et al (1999 4:440–447) for Swedish and Hansen and Heltoft (2011:1828) for Danish. In Danish, this type of left dislocation can occur in subordinate clauses – the “neutral sentence model”, according to Hansen and Heltoft (2011:1828) They say that the subject can be extraposed so that it occurs just after the subjunction and before the subject position. This seems to be necessary in this construction, since (7) is ungrammatical
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