VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss?
In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that VO in general is the most frequent word order. However, I also find many instances of SAuxOV order in my material, particul...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:92090e20d8e046cdb255c5f40280d215 2023-05-15T18:10:09+02:00 VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss? Kristine Bentzen 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5617/osla.8483 https://doaj.org/article/92090e20d8e046cdb255c5f40280d215 EN FR IT NB PT RU eng fre ita nob por rus University of Oslo https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8483 https://doaj.org/toc/1890-9639 doi:10.5617/osla.8483 1890-9639 https://doaj.org/article/92090e20d8e046cdb255c5f40280d215 Oslo Studies in Language, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2021) Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5617/osla.8483 2022-12-31T15:52:02Z In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that VO in general is the most frequent word order. However, I also find many instances of SAuxOV order in my material, particularly in sentences with periphrastic verb forms where the main verb is in the infinitive (that is, modal constructions) and where the object is a pronoun. In addition, I also find some cases where the object precedes both the auxiliary and the main verb, but crucially without being topicalized to clause-initial position. Based on the account of Norwegian Object Shift in Bentzen and Anderssen (2019), I suggest that OV word order in North Sami may be analyzed as IP-internal topicalization, where objects that are familiar in the context may move to a thematic position between VP and TP. This will account for the OV pattern with periphrastic tense forms. Furthermore, I suggest that there is an additional higher IP-internal topic position, and that object movement to this position is what results in OV with finite main verbs. This higher IP-internal topic position is also the position involved in patterns where the object precedes both the finite auxiliary and the main verb. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámegiela sami Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Oslo Studies in Language 11 2 33 45 |
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In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that VO in general is the most frequent word order. However, I also find many instances of SAuxOV order in my material, particularly in sentences with periphrastic verb forms where the main verb is in the infinitive (that is, modal constructions) and where the object is a pronoun. In addition, I also find some cases where the object precedes both the auxiliary and the main verb, but crucially without being topicalized to clause-initial position. Based on the account of Norwegian Object Shift in Bentzen and Anderssen (2019), I suggest that OV word order in North Sami may be analyzed as IP-internal topicalization, where objects that are familiar in the context may move to a thematic position between VP and TP. This will account for the OV pattern with periphrastic tense forms. Furthermore, I suggest that there is an additional higher IP-internal topic position, and that object movement to this position is what results in OV with finite main verbs. This higher IP-internal topic position is also the position involved in patterns where the object precedes both the finite auxiliary and the main verb. |
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VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss? |
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VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss? |
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VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss? |
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VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss? |
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VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss? |
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vo-ov-variasjon i nordsamisk: hva kan lia sápmi fortelle oss? |
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