Master Maud Westendorp holder prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne for ph.d.-graden i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap, fagområde språkvitenskap.
"The syntax of imperatives in the Scandinavian languages"
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Disputasen holdes samme dag kl. 11.15, hvor det vil være offentlig forsvar av avhandlingen:
“The distribution of main and embedded structures: V2 and non-V2 orders in North Germanic”
Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:
The North Germanic languages (i.e., Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish) are Verb Second (V2), meaning that the finite verb is obligatorily in the second position of the sentence. However, in Norwegian, as well as in the other North Germanic languages, we find deviations from this standard word order pattern. The four articles in this thesis serve two purposes: (i) to provide a solid descriptive base of the available variation in verb placement in North Germanic main and embedded clauses, and (ii) to propose an account of V2 which can incorporate the variable patterns. This thesis proposes a novel account of the syntactic structure of North Germanic main and embedded clauses which builds in the possibility of variability and optionality. As a whole, the thesis contributes to our understanding of Verb Second systems where word order is more flexible.
Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig i Munin.
Bedømmelseskomite:
professor Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh (førsteopponent)
professor Sten Vikner, Aarhus Universitet. (andreopponent)
professor Peter Svenonius, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Disputasleder:
Professor Linda Nesby, institutt for språk og kultur, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø.