Sten Vikner’s scientific contributions

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Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages
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March 1998

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Ans van Kemenade

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Sten Vikner

This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of principles and parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.

Citations (1)

... Movement out of an island with an NP boundary: As far as sentential pronouns are concerned, Müller (1995) follows Bennis (1986), Vikner (1995) a.o. and assumes that these are NP arguments which take the associated clause as their complement, which is then moved to another position. Again, this means that the CP has to get out of the NP in a first movement step; and in a barrier-based theory this means that the first instance of movement has to be right-adjunction to NP to circumvent the NP barrier. ...

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Improper edge features and extraposition
Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages
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  • March 1998

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Ans van Kemenade

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Sten Vikner