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dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-20T12:10:04Z
dc.date.available2013-02-20T12:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractBased on a corpus of spontaneous production data, this paper compares the word order of wh-questions in two Norwegian dialects, Kåfjord and Tromsø. While the choice of word order (V2 or non-V2) in Tromsø is dependent on information structure, the Kåfjord speakers produce considerably more non-V2 in questions with monosyllabic wh-elements. The majority of questions with multisyllabic wh-constituents, on the other hand, occurs with V2. This synchronic variation is given a diachronic analysis within a Split-CP model of clause structure and a cue-based approach to acquisition and change, where an economy principle (head preference) also plays an important role. Furthermore, an information structure drift from V2 to non-V2 is argued to cause the cue for verb movement to fall below a critical level in the input to children, the result being that V2 only survives in lexically marked cases in Kåfjord, i.e. with the verb ‘be’.en
dc.identifier.citationNordic Journal of Linguistics 28(2005) nr. 2 s. 269-296en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 437001
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0332586505001459
dc.identifier.issn0332-5865
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/4837
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4546
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Nordic languages: 018en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018en
dc.subjectcue-based acquisition and changeen
dc.subjectfrequency of inputen
dc.subjecthead preference principleen
dc.subjectinformation structureen
dc.subjectSplit-CP modelen
dc.titleOptional Word Order in Wh-Questions in Two Norwegian Dialects: A Diachronic Analysis of Synchronic Variationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen
dc.typePeer revieweden


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