• The distribution of main and embedded structures: V2 and non-V2 orders in North Germanic 

      Westendorp, Maud (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-30)
      North Germanic has Verb Second (V2) word order in main but not embedded clauses. Although as a first approximation V2 is a phenomenon characteristic of root clauses, it has long been known that it occurs also in a restricted set of embedded clauses in many, if not all, of the North Germanic languages. Moreover, a wide variety of Norwegian dialects allow deviations from the standard V2 word order in ...