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Pronouns & Basic Sentence Structure

Personal pronouns, strict verb-second (V2) word order and basic questions
V2-parametern
The V2 parameter: theoretical syntax of verb-second languages
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A central topic in generative analyses of Germanic word order
Asymmetri mellan huvudsats och bisats
Main clause vs subordinate clause word order asymmetry
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One of Swedish syntax's most distinctive structural features
Historisk utveckling av svenska pronomen från fornnordiska
Historical development of Swedish pronouns from Old Norse
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Today's pronoun set evolved gradually from earlier forms
Komparativ skandinavisk V2
Comparative Scandinavian V2 phenomena
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
V2 behaves slightly differently across these related languages
sin/sitt/sina ur bindningsteoretiskt perspektiv
Reflexive possessive sin/sitt/sina: a binding theory perspective
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A classic case study in formal syntactic binding theory
Expletiva subjekt (det, den) i svensk syntax
Expletive/dummy subjects (det, den) in Swedish syntax
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Subjects that fill a grammatical slot without real reference
Sociolingvistik kring du-reformen
Sociolinguistics of the du-reform
abolishing formal address
A well-known 1960s social shift toward informal address
Diskurspragmatiska funktioner av topikalisering
Discourse-pragmatic functions of topicalization
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Fronting choices signal what's already known vs newly relevant
Beräkningsmässiga utmaningar från V2-ordföljd
Computational parsing challenges from V2 word order
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V2 makes automated parsing notably harder than fixed SVO
Korpusbaserad analys av bisatsordföljdsmönster
Corpus-based analysis of subordinate clause word order patterns
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Data shows how consistently the main/subordinate split is followed