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VP anaphors and Object Shift: What do VP anaphors reveal about the licensing conditions for Object Shift in Danish?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2013

Bjarne Ørsnes
Bjarne Ørsnes*
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Business Communication, Dalgas Have 15, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark. boe.ibc@cbs.dk
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Abstract

The article discusses the placement of the VP anaphor det ‘it’ as a complement of verbs selecting VP complements in Danish. With verbs that only allow a VP complement, the VP anaphor must be in SpecCP regardless of its information structure properties. If SpecCP is occupied by an operator, the anaphor can be in situ, but it cannot shift. With verbs that allow its VP complement to alternate with an NP complement, the VP anaphor can be in SpecCP, shifted or in situ according to the information structural properties of the anaphor. Only if SpecCP is occupied by an operator, must a topical anaphor be in situ. The article argues that a shifted pronominal in Danish must be categorially licensed by the verb and extends this analysis to shifting locatives. An Optimality Theory analysis is proposed that accounts for the observed facts.

Keywords

auxiliariesDanishinformation structureObject Shiftraising and control verbsVP anaphorsVP complements
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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 36 , Special Issue 2: Object Shift in the Nordic Languages , October 2013 , pp. 245 - 274
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2013 

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