Scandinavian object shift and West Germanic scrambling

Sten Vikner

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This paper will discuss the differences between two types of movement in the Germanic languages. Both are clause internal, and both are movements from right to left. One kind is found in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish (i.e. the Germanic SVO languages except English), and this (and only this) will be referred to below as object shift, following Holmberg (1986: 165). A different kind of leftwards movement is the one found in Afrikaans, Dutch, Flemish, Frisian, (High) German, Swiss German, and Yiddish (i.e. the Germanic SOV languages), and this (and only this) I shall call in what follows. Object shift and scrambling are both adjunctions to VP (in some languages, e.g. in German, scrambling may also adjoin to IP, but not in others, e.g. in Dutch, cf. the appendix). Examples may therefore be constructed in which the two processes look identical:

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