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On the semantics and syntax of Scandinavian pronouns and object shift

Josefsson, Gunlög LU (1999) p.731-757
Abstract
In this article I argue that weak pronouns in the Scandinvian languages should be analysed as functional heads expressing pure phi-features, and that these heads occur either without complements or copying phi-features expressed in the rest of the extended projection. The description is modelled on a construction in Old and Modern Icelandic, where a pronoun may identify the phi-features of a deleted or empty phrase in a particular way. This construction is compared to a similar construction in Modern Swedish.
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object shift, Mainland Scandinavian, pronouns, phi-features, clitics
host publication
Clitics in the Languages of Europe
editor
van Riemsdijk, Henk
pages
731 - 757
publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
ISBN
3-11-015751-9
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English
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yes
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  author       = {{Josefsson, Gunlög}},
  booktitle    = {{Clitics in the Languages of Europe}},
  editor       = {{van Riemsdijk, Henk}},
  isbn         = {{3-11-015751-9}},
  keywords     = {{object shift; Mainland Scandinavian; pronouns; phi-features; clitics}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{731--757}},
  publisher    = {{Mouton de Gruyter}},
  title        = {{On the semantics and syntax of Scandinavian pronouns and object shift}},
  year         = {{1999}},
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