Variation in Mainland Scandinavian Object Shift and Prosodic Repair
(2017) In Linguistic Inquiry- Abstract
- In this paper we argue for an analysis of Object Shift in Mainland Scandinavian in which the shifted word order is the result of a prosodic repair to enable weak pronoun incorporation. We observe that varieties with optional OS also have a tone accent contrast. We argue that the in-situ word order is licensed in these dialects because tonal accent creates a prosodic domain licensing the incorporation of the weak pronoun. The proposal has important implications for our understanding of the architecture of the grammar – it provides evidence that at least some cases of word order can better be attributed to phonological computation, rather than to narrow syntax.
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- author
- Josefsson, Gunlög LU ; Erteschik-Shir, Nomi LU and Köhnlein, Björn
- organization
- alternative title
- Öbject shift - variation inom det fastlandsskandinaviska området och prosodisk reparation
- publishing date
- 2017-10-03
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- submitted
- subject
- keywords
- object shift, prosodic repair, tone accent unit, match theory, swedish, ærø danish, syntax, phonology
- in
- Linguistic Inquiry
- pages
- 57 pages
- publisher
- MIT Press
- ISSN
- 1530-9150
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 2f45903a-ca45-4288-986f-c2899eeb2d17
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- 2018-01-29 12:17:37
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