Wh-questions, V2, and the left periphery of three Norwegian dialects

• Main Authors: Marit R. Westergaard, Øystein A. Vangsnes
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Key words; information structure; left periphery; microparameters; Norwegian dialects; subject positions; verb movement; verb second; wh-questions; Nordmøre; Tromsø
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.261.1046; http://www.hum.uit.no/a/westergaard/PUBLICATIONS/WestVangJCGL.pdf

Abstract. In this paper, we present data from three Norwegian dialect types, NOR-1, NOR-2 and NOR-3, which differ with respect to the verb second (V2) requirement in wh-questions: NOR-1 (represented by Standard Norwegian) requires V2 in all main clauses, NOR-3 (represented by the Nordmøre dialect) l...