Residual V-to-I in Faroese and its lack in Danish: detecting the final stages of a syntactic change∗ Caroline Heycock∗, Antonella Sorace∗, Zakaris Svabo Hansen† Sten Vikner‡, Frances Wilson? ∗University of Edinburgh, Universitetet Tromsø, †Fróðskaparsetur Føroya, ‡Aarhus Universitet, ?University of Delaware Abstract In Heycock et al. (2010a) it was shown that V-to-I in contemporary Faroese has muc

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS87_Heycock.pdf - 2025-07-14

On past participles and their external arguments Eva Klingvall, Lund University Abstract Swedish makes a morphological distinction between participles used in per- fect contexts, perfect participles, and participles used in passive contexts, past participles. In most contexts, the former appear with the external argument as a subject DP, while the latter realize the external argument as an adjunct

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS87_Klingvall.pdf - 2025-07-14

81 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 87 (2011), 81–102 Embedded declaratives, assertion and swear words Ulla Stroh-Wollin Department of Scandinavian Languages Uppsala University Abstract This article discusses embedded declaratives and their force of expressing assertion, a topic that was debated by Anna-Lena Wiklund and Marit Julien in both numbers of this working paper series 2009. Two quest

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS87_Stroh_Wollin.pdf - 2025-07-14

WPSS förord 87 Preface Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax is a publication for current articles relating to the study of Scandinavian syntax. The articles appearing herein are previously unpublished reports of ongoing research activities and may subsequently appear, revised or unrevised, in other publications. Due to the nature of the papers as working papers, we only print a limited number of

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS87_forord.pdf - 2025-07-14

Framsida ny WPSS WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX December 2014 Issue 93 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax is an electronic publication for current articles relating to the study of Scandinavian syntax. The articles appearing herein are previously unpublished reports of ongoing research activities and may subsequently appear, revised or unrevised, in other publications. The WPSS homepage:

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_01.pdf - 2025-07-14

Framsida wpss WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 82 Elly van Gelderen & Terje Lohndal The position of adjectives and double definiteness 1–22 Terje Lohndal, Mari Nygård & Tor A. Åfarli The structure of copular clauses in Norwegian 23–42 !orbjörg Hróarsdóttir Verb particles in OV/VO word order in Older Icelandic 43–82 Johan Brandtler Why we should ever bother about wh-questions 83–102 Gunnar Hra

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_03.pdf - 2025-07-14

wpss84 WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 84 Maia Andreasson Pronominal object shift – not just a matter of shifting or not 1–20 Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarsson & Anna-Lena Wiklund General embedded V2: Icelandic A, B, C, etc. 21–52 Gunlög Josefsson “Disagreeing” pronominal reference and gender in Swedish 53–100 David Petersson Embedded V2 does not exist in Swedish 101–149 Henrik Rosenkvist Refere

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_05.pdf - 2025-07-14

WPSS framsida 86 WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 86 Gunlög Josefsson Object shift and optionality. An intricate interplay between syntax, prosody and information structure 1-24 Mayumi Hosono On Icelandic Object Shift 25-56 Mayumi Hosono Why Object Shift does not exist in Övdalian 57-80 Mayumi Hosono On Unshifted Weak Object Pronouns in the Scandinavian Languages 81-99 Eva Engels Local licens

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_07.pdf - 2025-07-14

Wpss88 WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 88 Henrik Rosenkvist Verb raising and referential null subjects in Övdalian 1–20 Kari Kinn Overt non-referential subjects and subject-verb agreement in Middle Norwegian 21–50 Mayumi Hosono Verb movement as tense operator movement 51–80 Jim Wood & Einar Frey Sigur!sson Icelandic verbal agreement pronoun antecedent relations 81–130 Eva Klingvall On non-co

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_09.pdf - 2025-07-14

WPSS framsida 89 WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 89 Eva Engels Wh-phrases and NEG-phrases in clauses and nominals. 1-36 Fredrik Heinat Adjective and clausal complementation. 37-67 Mayumi Hosono Information structure, syntax and information properties of multiple Wh-questions. 69-99 June 2012 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax ISSN: 1100-097x Christer Platzack ed. Center of Language and Li

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_10.pdf - 2025-07-14

WPSS 91.framsida WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 91 Roland Hinterhölzl Economy conditions and coreference: From minimal pronouns to referential acts 1-35 Dorian Roehrs Possessives as Extended Projections 37-112 Björn Lundquist On inter-individual variation and mid-distance binding in Swedish 113-146 Verner Egerland The Apropos-Topic, the Concerning-Topic and the syntax- pragmatics interface

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_12.pdf - 2025-07-14

Framsida ny WPSS WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX June 2015 Issue 94 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax is an electronic publication for current articles relating to the study of Scandinavian syntax. The articles appearing herein are previously unpublished reports of ongoing research activities and may subsequently appear, revised or unrevised, in other publications. The WPSS homepage: htt

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_14.pdf - 2025-07-14

Productivity of Non-Default Case Anton Karl Ingason University of Iceland Abstract This article is about productivity of non-default patterns in gram- mar. More specifically it is about the extension of non-default case patterns in syntax to novel items. The study draws on data from Icelandic syntax but addresses general questions about the nature of productivity. Contributions are made to the pic

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_85_Ingason.pdf - 2025-07-14

On the Swedish så-construction Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 85, 37-63 The Swedish så-construction, a new point of departure Jackie Nordström Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University ABSTRACT The following article treats the Swedish så-construction (involving the so-called “adjunctive” så). The så-construction consists of a first element, which is typically an adjunct, followed

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_85_Nordstroem.pdf - 2025-07-14

engels_Faroese expletive constructions Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 86 (2010) 101-136 Local licensing in Faroese expletive constructions Eva Engels, University of Aarhus Abstract Certain varieties of Faroese display a so far unnoticed co-occurrence restriction in expletive constructions. Although there are two subject positions in the IP domain, SpecAgrSP for the overt expletive and SpecT

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_86_Engels_Faroese_expletive_constructions-1.pdf - 2025-07-14

Franco WPSS 12.10-2 137 Issues in the syntax of Scandinavian embedded clauses* Irene Franco University of Tromsø - CASTL Abstract The paper focuses on the syntactic and interpretive properties of subordinate clauses in Mainland Scandinavian and Icelandic. Assuming a cartographic CP structure (Rizzi 1997; Haegeman 2006, a.o.), the V-to-Fin movement surfacing as linear V2 is determined by structural

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_86_Franco_Issues_in_the_syntax_of_Scandinavian_embedded_clauses.pdf - 2025-07-14

Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 86 (2010) 25-56 On Icelandic Object Shift* Mayumi Hosono, Leiden University m.hosono@umail.leidenuniv.nl Abstract In this paper I discuss Icelandic Object Shift from the perspective of the Icelandic intonational properties. I firstly show that the arguments based on the Mapping Hypothesis (Diesing 1992, 1997) make a wrong prediction for the applicability of Ob

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_86_Hosono_On_Icelandic_Object_Shift_-_WPSS.pdf - 2025-07-14

Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 86 (2010) 57-80 Why Object Shift does not exist in Övdalian* Mayumi Hosono, Leiden University m.hosono@umail.leidenuniv.nl Abstract I discuss the absence of Object Shift in Övdalian from the perspective of the Övdalian intonational properties by presenting experimental data of the constructions relevant to Övdalian non-Object Shift. I argue that the reason why

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_86_Hosono_Why_Object_Shift_does_not_exist_in_OEvdalian.pdf - 2025-07-14

Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 86 (2010) 1–24. Object shift and optionality. An intricate interplay between syntax, prosody and information structure * Gunlög Josefsson, Lund University Abstract. The topic of my article is Object Shift and optionality, mainly from a Swedish viewpoint. I present the result of a survey, which shows that informant‟s intuitions concerning the wellformedness of

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_86_Josefsson_How_optional_is_object_shift.slutvers.pdf - 2025-07-14

WPSS 88 tidigare nummer These working papers have been sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) (no. 1-27) and by the Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciencies (HSFR) (no. 28-42), as well as by Erik Philip-Sörensen's stiftelse (no. 42-43). From no. 80, WPSS is sponsored by Center of Languagte and Literture, Lund University. PUBLIS

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/WPSS_88_tidigare_nummer.pdf - 2025-07-14