Variation in Mainland Scandinavian Object Shift : A Prosodic Analysis
(2021) In Linguistic Inquiry 52(4). p.711-746- Abstract
- Despite a decade-long research history, there are still ongoing debates on the analysis of Object Shift in Mainland Scandinavian, and all syntactic and information-structural accounts have run into empirical and/or conceptual problems. We argue that this debate can be resolved by recognizing that OS is, in fact, a prosodic phenomenon. Our analysis builds on the observatioDespite a decade-long research history, there are still ongoing debates on the analysis of Object Shift in Mainland Scandinavian, and all syntactic and information-structural accounts n that varieties with optional OS (most Swedish dialects, southern Danish dialects (e.g. Ærø)) also have a tone accent contrast. The insitu word order in these varieties is licensed because... (More)
- Despite a decade-long research history, there are still ongoing debates on the analysis of Object Shift in Mainland Scandinavian, and all syntactic and information-structural accounts have run into empirical and/or conceptual problems. We argue that this debate can be resolved by recognizing that OS is, in fact, a prosodic phenomenon. Our analysis builds on the observatioDespite a decade-long research history, there are still ongoing debates on the analysis of Object Shift in Mainland Scandinavian, and all syntactic and information-structural accounts n that varieties with optional OS (most Swedish dialects, southern Danish dialects (e.g. Ærø)) also have a tone accent contrast. The insitu word order in these varieties is licensed because tonal accent creates a prosodic domain that makes the incorporation of weak pronouns possible. (Less)
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- Despite a decade-long research history, there are still ongoing debates on the analysis of Object Shift in Mainland Scandinavian, and all syntactic and information-structural accounts have run into empirical and/or conceptual problems. We argue that this debate can be resolved by recognizing that OS is, in fact, a prosodic phenomenon. Our analysis builds on the observation that varieties with optional OS (most Swedish dialects, southern Danish dialects (e.g. Ærø)) also have a tone accent contrast. The insitu word order in these varieties is licensed because tonal accent creates a prosodic domain that makes the incorporation of weak pronouns possible.
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- Erteschik-Shir, Nomi LU ; Josefsson, Gunlög LU and Köhnlein, Björn
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- Variation i fastlandsskandinaviskt pronomenhopp: en prosodisk analys
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- object shift, dialectal variation, optionality, tone accent contrast, Holmberg's generalization, adverb alignment, syntax-prosody interface, object shift, dialectal variation, optionality, tone accent contrast, Holmberg's generalization, adverb alignment, syntax-prosody interface
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- Linguistic Inquiry
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- 52
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- 4
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- 66 pages
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- MIT Press
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- scopus:85118607451
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- 1530-9150
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- 10.1162/ling_a_00393
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- English
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