The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian

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Frontmatter Contents Preface Examples and glossing conventions Abbreviations of grammatical morphemes 1 Introduction 1.1 The Scandinavian languages 1.2 Sources and material 1.3 Theoretical background and descriptive framework 2 Nominals 2.1 The noun phrase 2.1.1 The noun 2.1.2 Complements 2.1.3 Adjuncts 2.1.4 Inflection 2.2 Modifiers 2.2.1 Adjectives 2.2.2 Quantifiers 2.3 The determiner phrase 2.3.1 The definite article 2.3.2 Demonstratives 2.3.3 Interrogative 2.3.4 Possessive 2.3.4.1 Possessive determiner 2.3.4.2 Genitive phrase 2.3.4.3 Possessor doubling construction 2.3.4.4 Prepositional phrase 2.3.4.5 Preproprial genitive 2.3.4.6 Kinship nouns 2.3.4.7 Interrogative possessor 2.3.4.8 Distributive possessive 2.4 Pronouns 2.4.1 Personal pronouns 2.4.1.1 Forms and use 2.4.1.2 Uses of the neuter singular 2.4.1.3 The reflexive pronoun 2.4.2 Interrogative pronouns 2.4.3 Indefinite pronouns 2.4.4 Pronominal phrases 2.5 Relative clauses 2.5.1 Restrictive relative clauses 2.5.2 Non-restrictive relative clauses 2.5.3 Infinitival relatives 2.6 Predeterminers 2.6.1 Universal quantifiers 2.6.2 Focusing elements 2.6.3 Demonstratives 2.7 Further reading 3 The adjective phrase 3.1 The adjective 3.2 Complements 3.2.1 Nominals 3.2.2 Prepositional phrases 3.2.3 Infinitival relatives 3.2.4 Verbal present participles 3.3 Degree 3.4 Further reading 4 The prepositional phrase 4.1 The preposition 4.2 Complements 4.3 Modifiers 4.4 Further reading 5 The verb phrase 5.1 The verb 5.2 Argument structure 5.2.1 Transitivity 5.2.2 External argument 5.2.3 Ergativity 5.2.4 The reflexive form 5.3 Auxiliaries and complex verb forms 5.3.1 Modal auxiliaries 5.3.2 Future reference 5.3.3 The perfect 5.4 Complements of lexical verbs 5.4.1 Nominals 5.4.2 Clauses 5.4.3 Prepositional objects 5.5 Small clauses 5.5.1 Infinitive 5.5.1.1 Verbs of perception 5.5.1.2 Verbs of cognition 5.5.1.3 The verb of ordering and request 5.5.1.4 The verb of permission 5.5.2 Predicate complements 5.5.2.1 Subject-oriented predicate complements 5.5.2.2 Object-oriented predicate complements 5.5.3 Adverbial complements 5.5.3.1 With a copula verb 5.5.3.2 With unaccusative and intransitive verbs 5.5.3.3 With transitive verbs 5.5.3.4 Particles 5.6 Indirect object 5.6.1 Structure 5.6.2 Types of verbs 5.6.3 Syntactic properties 5.6.4 External possessor 5.7 Free adjuncts 5.7.1 Predicate adjuncts 5.7.2 Adverbial adjuncts 5.7.2.1 Prepositional phrases 5.7.2.2 Nominals 5.7.2.3 Clauses 5.7.2.4 Adjective phrases 5.7.2.5 Adverbs 5.7.2.6 Double adverbials 5.8 Further reading 6 The finite clause 6.1 The finite verb 6.2 The subject 6.2.1 Form 6.2.1.1 Nominal subject 6.2.1.2 Clausal subject 6.2.1.3 Prepositional and adverbial phrases 6.2.2 Raising to subject 6.2.3 Non-referential subjects 6.2.3.1 Expletive 6.2.3.2 Quasi-argument 6.2.3.3 Special constructions 6.2.4 Locative subjects 6.3 The passive 6.3.1 Passive morphology 6.3.2 The derivation of the passive 6.3.3 The passive subject 6.3.3.1 Complement of transitive verb 6.3.3.2 Prepositional complements 6.3.3.3 Indirect objects 6.3.3.4 Raising from non-finite clauses 6.3.3.5 Expletive 6.3.4 The få passive 6.4 Sentence adverbials 6.4.1 Form 6.4.2 Meaning and function 6.4.2.1 Modal adverbials 6.4.2.2 Contextual adverbials 6.4.2.3 Adverbials expressing empathy 6.4.2.4 Epistemic adverbials 6.4.2.5 Focus adverbials 6.4.2.6 Negation 6.4.3 The position of the sentence adverbial 6.4.4 The relative order of sentence adverbials 6.5 Object shift 6.5.1 Pronouns 6.5.2 Negated objects 6.6 Floating quantifiers and ‘self ’ 6.7 Further reading 7 The independent sentence 7.1 Verb movement to C 7.2 Topicalization 7.2.1 Subject 7.2.2 Object 7.2.3 Predicate complements and adjuncts 7.2.4 Adverbial complements 7.2.5 Adverbial adjuncts 7.2.6 Sentence adverbials 7.2.7 Verb phrases 7.2.8 Topicalization from DP 7.2.9 Topic doubling 7.2.10 Null topic 7.3 Interrogative sentences 7.3.1 Sentence questions 7.3.2 Phrasal questions 7.4 Imperative sentences 7.5 Further reading 8 Subordinate clauses 8.1 Internal structure 8.2 Nominal clauses 8.2.1 Declarative clauses 8.2.2 Interrogative clauses 8.2.2.1 Sentence questions 8.2.2.2 Phrasal questions 8.2.3 Infinitival clauses 8.2.3.1 The subject 8.2.3.2 The infinitive marker 8.3.6 Infinitival relatives 8.3 Relative clauses 8.3.1 Nominal relatives 8.3.1.1 Introduced by a complementizer 8.3.1.2 Introduced by a pronoun 8.3.2 Adverbial relatives 8.3.2.1 Locative clauses 8.3.2.2 Temporal clauses 8.3.3 Generalizing clauses 8.3.4 Cleft sentences 8.3.5 Comparative clauses 8.3.5.1 Introduced by som 8.3.5.2 Introduced by 'than' 8.3.5.3 Correlative clauses 8.4 Adverbial adjunct clauses 8.4.1 Causal clauses 8.4.2 Final and consecutive clauses 8.4.3 Concessive clauses 8.4.4 Conditional clauses 8.5 Extraction from subordinate clauses 8.5.1 Syntactic ‘islands’ 8.5.2 Extraction out of complements and adjuncts 8.5.3 Extraction out of relative clauses 8.5.4 Extraction of subjects 8.5.5 Parasitic gap 8.6 Further reading 9 Anaphor binding 9.1 Binding domains 9.1.1 The clause 9.1.2 Small clauses 9.1.3 The verb phrase 9.1.4 The noun phrase 9.2 Long distance binding 9.3 Further reading 10 Coordination and ellipsis 10.1 Coordination 10.1.1 Additive and disjunctive coordination 10.1.2 Adversative coordination 10.1.3 Causal coordination 10.2 Ellipsis 10.2.1 Coordinated phrases 10.2.2 Subject ellipsis 10.2.3 Object ellipsis 10.2.4 Sluicing 10.3 Pseudocoordination 10.4 Further reading References Index