On the relative order of central sentence adverbs in the Insular Scandinavian languages
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This paper discusses the relative order of certain classes of central sentence adverbs in
Icelandic and Faroese. The relative order of the logical subject and central sentence adverbs
in double subject constructions is also taken under consideration. The questionnaire data
shows that the relative orders of adverbs that follow Cinque’s (1999) hierarchy receive more
positive judgments than the orders that do not exhibit the predicted patterns in both
languages, but the contrasts are not always as striking as one might expect. Examples of three
adverbs within the same clause get rather negative judgments in general, but in case such
orders are accepted the judgments are also in accordance with Cinque’s (1999) hierarchy. In
double subject constructions, however, the sentence adverbs usually must precede the logical
subject in Faroese while in Icelandic both orders are fine for most speakers. This is consistent
with recent research showing that adverb placement is somewhat less free in Faroese than in
Icelandic.
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Málfræði, Íslenska, Færeyska
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Angantýsson, Á. (2019). On the relative order of central sentence adverbs in the Insular Scandinavian languages. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 2019(103), 30-41. https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/sol/ovrigt/projekt_grimm/working_papers/2019-dec/Angantysson.pdf