The position of subject and finite verb in American Danish sentences with a fronted element

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The position of subject and finite verb in American Danish sentences with a fronted element. / Kühl, Karoline; Petersen, Jan Heegård.

In: Journal of Language Contact, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2018, p. 413-440.

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Kühl, K & Petersen, JH 2018, 'The position of subject and finite verb in American Danish sentences with a fronted element', Journal of Language Contact, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 413-440. <https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/11/3/article-p413_413.xml>

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Kühl, K., & Petersen, J. H. (2018). The position of subject and finite verb in American Danish sentences with a fronted element. Journal of Language Contact, 12(1), 413-440. https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/11/3/article-p413_413.xml

Vancouver

Kühl K, Petersen JH. The position of subject and finite verb in American Danish sentences with a fronted element. Journal of Language Contact. 2018;12(1):413-440.

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Kühl, Karoline ; Petersen, Jan Heegård. / The position of subject and finite verb in American Danish sentences with a fronted element. In: Journal of Language Contact. 2018 ; Vol. 12, No. 1. pp. 413-440.

Bibtex

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abstract = "The paper investigates the placement of subject and finite verb in topicalized, i.e. non-subject initial declarative main clauses in North American Danish. European Danish adheres to the V2-rule and thus requires inversion, while North American Danish allows for non-inversion, i.e. [X]SV word order. Based on a sample of approx. 1700 tokens of topicalized declarative clauses produced by 64 speakers, we observe a general stability of V2 in North American Danish. In order to explain the instances of non-V2, we employ both linguistic and sociolinguistic factors.",
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