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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I investigate apparent V2-violations in Norweg
 ian\, a North-Germanic V2 language. Examples of this phenomenon arise wh
 en the finite verb\, which is assumed to have moved to the C-domain (Vik
 ner and Schwartz 1996)\, and the pre-V2 constituent\, are intervened. Th
 e intervening words are often adverbs\, particularly so in subject-initi
 al main clauses\, as the example in (1) highlights. This results in unex
 pected V3 (or even V4) instances.\n\n(1) Jeg bare lure-r                
 på en liten  ting.                     (Norwegian)\n      I     just   w
 onder-PRES on a   small thing.\nI am just wondering/I just wonder about 
 a small something.’ (NoWaC SID 26597)\n\nI used the NoWaC corpus to inve
 stigate adverb occurrences in apparent V2-violating contexts\, ascertain
 ing not only which adverbs arise\, but also revealing that bare (‘just’)
  appears 5657 times. This accounts for 79% of all adverbs occurring betw
 een the pre-V2 constituent and the V2-verb. Furthermore I use the Englis
 h-Norwegian translation corpus OMC (Oslo Multilingual Corpus) to explore
  the semantics of bare in these contexts\, and I argue that they come ab
 out due to disambiguation (in conjunction with focus patterns).\n\nIn li
 ght of the data\, the status of the left-field in Scandinavian and Germa
 n is considered. Of particular relevance is the fact that nur (‘only’)\,
  a German equivalent for bare\, cannot occur in these same contexts in s
 ubject-initial main clauses. I consider three syntactic approaches to mo
 delling apparent V2-violations\; external merge into the C-domain (Julie
 n 2015:150-151)\, adverbial head-adjunction to the finite verb (Brandtle
 r and Håkansson 2017:17)\, and phrasal movement approaches (Nilsen 2003:
 92\, Lundquist 2018). I conclude that a phrasal movement approach contai
 ning the finite verb seems most appealing when modelling apparent V2-vio
 lations in Norwegian.
URL:https://68stuts.bildungs.cafe/events/463.html
SUMMARY:Exploring apparent V2-violations in Norwegian
ORGANIZER:stuts68
LOCATION:stuts68 - Agathe Lasch
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