TY - BOOK
T1 - Adverbials in Extra-left position in spoken Danish
AU - Heegård, Jan
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The article describes the distribution of fronted adverbial constituents in Danish in the Prefield and the Extra-left (‘left dislocation’) positions, for example, i morgen der skal vi i skole vs i morgen skal vi i skole ‘tomorrow we go to school’. The data, 635 sentences with a fronted adverbial, are extracted from seven sociolinguistic interviews. The article shows that some types of adverbials more are more inclined to occur in the Extra-left position than others. For example, conditional clauses and ‘when’-clauses occur almost always in the Extra-left position. Attitude and manner adverbials like heldigvis ‘luckily’ and traditionelt ‘traditionally’ occur infrequently in Extra-left position. Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, a prin¬ciple of lexical weight does not have much explanatory power. Instead, grammatical principles and principles related to informational backgrounding provide satisfying explanations for the distribution.
AB - The article describes the distribution of fronted adverbial constituents in Danish in the Prefield and the Extra-left (‘left dislocation’) positions, for example, i morgen der skal vi i skole vs i morgen skal vi i skole ‘tomorrow we go to school’. The data, 635 sentences with a fronted adverbial, are extracted from seven sociolinguistic interviews. The article shows that some types of adverbials more are more inclined to occur in the Extra-left position than others. For example, conditional clauses and ‘when’-clauses occur almost always in the Extra-left position. Attitude and manner adverbials like heldigvis ‘luckily’ and traditionelt ‘traditionally’ occur infrequently in Extra-left position. Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, a prin¬ciple of lexical weight does not have much explanatory power. Instead, grammatical principles and principles related to informational backgrounding provide satisfying explanations for the distribution.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - left dislocation
KW - clause adverbials
KW - attitude adverbials
KW - conditional clause
KW - summarizing adverbials
M3 - Anthology
BT - Adverbials in Extra-left position in spoken Danish
ER -