Verb placement variation in Swedish and Danish

Maud Westendorp
2022 The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal  
This article gives a summary of the Swedish and Danish data on verb placement in the Nordic Word order Database (NWD; Lundquist et al. 2019). The data were collected using an elicited production paradigm. I discuss variation in verb placement in Danish in four constructions: in embedded clauses with respect to adverbs (embedded V2), in main clauses with respect to preverbal and sentence-medial adverbs, and in embedded and main clause wh-questions. The Swedish data cover embedded clauses only.
more » ... e Swedish and Danish results are discussed in direct comparison to the verb placement patterns observed in the other North Germanic languages covered in the NWD.
doi:10.5617/nals.9425 fatcat:2kseztobkzdvrc52p7bc6cjw5m