Abstract
In this article, I present data from the Nordic Word order Database (NWD) on word order in Faroese embedded clauses. I discuss the methods used in the data elicitation, data analysis, and present a first overview of the patterns in the dataset. The NWD contains a total of 4,752 embedded clauses elicited from 33 native Faroese speakers, focussing on embedded wh-questions, and the placement of the finite verb with respect to adverbs in different types of complements. The results from the Faroese fieldwork largely confirm the word order patterns discussed in the literature. There is very little variation in the word order of embeddded wh-questions in the NWD-data. Verb > Adverb order is most common in declarative bridge-verb complements, whereas non-bridge, and wh-complements disfavour this order.
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Ber of Faroese speakers in Denmark, and a smaller portion living in Iceland (Føroya landsstýri 2019)
Within the larger Nordic Word order Database project, the same experiment was run in Denmark, Norway and Sweden as well to further explore the status of embedded verb movement in North Germanic
Summary
I present data from the Nordic Word order Database (NWD) on word order in Faroese embedded clauses. She asked who had never had read book.DEF ‘She asked who has never read the book.’. Within the larger Nordic Word order Database project, the same experiment was run in Denmark, Norway and Sweden as well to further explore the status of embedded verb movement in North Germanic.. The experiment tests the relative ordering of the finite verb and sentence adverbs in three different embedded contexts: bridgeverb complements, non-bridge predicate complements and indirect questions. We may expect Faroese to pattern with MNG in these clauses For the latter phenomenon, i.e., embedded wh-questions, we do not include any adverbs and test only the relative ordering of subject and verb and the use of a relative complementizer. We expect limited variation in Faroese, with the exception of optional insertion of the complementizer ið
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