Adverbials in Extra-left position in spoken Danish

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Adverbials in Extra-left position in spoken Danish. / Heegård, Jan.

2025.

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abstract = "The article describes the distribution of fronted adverbial constituents in Danish in the Prefield and the Extra-left ({\textquoteleft}left dislocation{\textquoteright}) positions, for example, i morgen der skal vi i skole vs i morgen skal vi i skole {\textquoteleft}tomorrow we go to school{\textquoteright}. The data, 635 sentences with a fronted adverbial, are extracted from seven sociolinguistic interviews. The article shows that some types of adverbials more are more inclined to occur in the Extra-left position than others. For example, conditional clauses and {\textquoteleft}when{\textquoteright}-clauses occur almost always in the Extra-left position. Attitude and manner adverbials like heldigvis {\textquoteleft}luckily{\textquoteright} and traditionelt {\textquoteleft}traditionally{\textquoteright} occur infrequently in Extra-left position. Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, a prin¬ciple of lexical weight does not have much explanatory power. Instead, grammatical principles and principles related to informational backgrounding provide satisfying explanations for the distribution. ",
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