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Solf workshop (ScanDiaSyn 2006 Grand Meeting)
The distribution of negation in Scandinavian dialects
Christine Bjerkan Østbø, Universitetet i Tromsø
The distribution of negation in Scandinavian dialects exhibits
variation, e.g. with respect to the subject in main clauses and with
respect to the subject and the verb in embedded clauses. In this talk,
the focus will mainly be on the relation between negation and pronouns.
In all the Scandinavian Standard languages all pronouns have to precede
negation and other adverbs; this is usually referred to as argument
shift or object shift (with special reference to the object position).
However, some dialects do not show this effect (at least) with respect
to negation. I will discuss how these observations correspond to
theories of negation.
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