• Additive Negation 

      Østbø Munch, Christine B.; Garbacz, Piotr (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-22)
    • Doubling of Negation 

      Østbø Munch, Christine B.; Garbacz, Piotr (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)
      Doubling of negation, where a declarative is initiated and finished with negation as shown in (1) below, consists of two different structures: clause-initial negation and clause-final negation, and these need not be related. (1) Inte har jag sett honom inte. (Fenno-Swedish) not has I seen him not ‘I have certainly not seen him’ (Bergroth 1928: 159) Clause-initial negation, which contributes ...
    • Tags and Negative Polarity Items 

      Østbø Munch, Christine B.; Garbacz, Piotr (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)
      Tags are elements or (remnant) clauses that attach to a sentence in order to signal various speech acts, e.g. the common question tags of the type is it? isn’t it?. An affirmative tag, which is used in order for the speaker to confirm the content of the matrix clause is presented in (1). (1) Pappa kan hämta dig vid stationen, kan han nog (#1435) (Swedish) dad can fetch you with station.DEF can ...
    • Topic doubling 

      Østbø Munch, Christine B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-22)
      Just like the vast majority of the Germanic languages, the Scandinavian languages are verb second (V2) languages where the finite verb occupies the second position in declarative clauses allowing just one constituent to precede it.