The Middle Field

Abstract

This section covers a wide range of phenomena that are related to what we can call the middle field of the clause. We have included chapters that deal both with the placement of arguments in the middle field (excluding argument structure inside the verb phrase, which is dealt with in the section on the verb phrase, see Lundquist 2014a), and chapters about auxiliaries and verbmorphology. The topic of verb­placement is discussed in a separete section (Bentzen 2014), since this topic is not restricted to the middle field. Below we will briefly discuss the major issues in argument placement (section 2) and verbal morphology and auxiliaries (section 3).