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Presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish : Roles and positions

Engdahl, Elisabet ; Maling, Joan ; Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann LU and Zaenen, Annie (2018) In Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax p.1-28
Abstract
In this article we report on a systematic comparison of presentational sentences
in Icelandic and Swedish, looking in particular at possible thematic
roles of the pivot and how they correlate with positional options. Despite
some well-known differences between the languages (only Icelandic allows
‘high’ IP-pivots and pivots with transitive verbs), it turns out that the restrictions
on VP-pivots are similar, both in terms of roles and positions.
VP-pivots have to be Themes and may co-occur with other DPs, but only
if the pivot is the last DP argument. We show how these restrictions to some
extent reflect the argument structure proposed in Platzack (2010). In addition
we show that we need to distinguish... (More)
In this article we report on a systematic comparison of presentational sentences
in Icelandic and Swedish, looking in particular at possible thematic
roles of the pivot and how they correlate with positional options. Despite
some well-known differences between the languages (only Icelandic allows
‘high’ IP-pivots and pivots with transitive verbs), it turns out that the restrictions
on VP-pivots are similar, both in terms of roles and positions.
VP-pivots have to be Themes and may co-occur with other DPs, but only
if the pivot is the last DP argument. We show how these restrictions to some
extent reflect the argument structure proposed in Platzack (2010). In addition
we show that we need to distinguish presentational sentences among the
different Transitive Expletive Constructions discussed in Håkansson (2017). (Less)
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  abstract     = {{In this article we report on a systematic comparison of presentational sentences<br/>in Icelandic and Swedish, looking in particular at possible thematic<br/>roles of the pivot and how they correlate with positional options. Despite<br/>some well-known differences between the languages (only Icelandic allows<br/>‘high’ IP-pivots and pivots with transitive verbs), it turns out that the restrictions<br/>on VP-pivots are similar, both in terms of roles and positions.<br/>VP-pivots have to be Themes and may co-occur with other DPs, but only<br/>if the pivot is the last DP argument. We show how these restrictions to some<br/>extent reflect the argument structure proposed in Platzack (2010). In addition<br/>we show that we need to distinguish presentational sentences among the<br/>different Transitive Expletive Constructions discussed in Håkansson (2017).}},
  author       = {{Engdahl, Elisabet and Maling, Joan and Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann and Zaenen, Annie}},
  issn         = {{1100-097x}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  number       = {{101}},
  pages        = {{1--28}},
  publisher    = {{Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax}},
  series       = {{Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax}},
  title        = {{Presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish : Roles and positions}},
  url          = {{https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/sol/ovrigt/projekt_grimm/working_papers/2018-dec/Engdahl_et_al.pdf}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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