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About this book
Introduction
This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax.
Keywords
object shift word order variation the Scandinavian languages Holmberg's generalisation double object constructions particle verbs causative verbs remnant VP-topicalisation Optimality Theory order preservation comparative syntax Adverb adverbial object Syntax
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431646
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
- Publisher Name Palgrave Pivot, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-49231-2
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-43164-6
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