Norwegian Object Shift as IP-internal topicalization
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Norwegian Object Shift as IP-internal topicalization
In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of Object Shift in Norwegian, and we show that this operation is more complex and discourse related than what has traditionally been assumed. We argue that Object Shift cannot be accounted for in a purely prosodic approach. Rather, we demonstrate that a common denominator for all objects undergoing Object Shift is that they are topics. We thus propose tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nordlyd
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1503-8599
DOI: 10.7557/12.2285