The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner

Ken Ramshøj Christensen; Henrik Jørgensen; Johanna Wood; Merete Anderssen; Artemis Alexiadou; Terje Lohndal; Torben Arboe; Merete Birkelund; Ocke-Schwen Bohn; Ken Ramshøj Christensen; Anne Mette Nyvad; Tanya Karoli Christensen; Guglielmo Cinque; Susana Silvia Fernández; Hanne Wacher Kjærgaard; Liliane Haegeman; Hubert Haider; Míša Hejná; Anders Holmberg; Klaus Kurki; Camilla Søballe Horslund; Per Anker Jensen; Kyle Johnsen; Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson; Henrik Jørgensen; Johannes Kizach; Eva Klingvall; Fredrik Heinat; Steffen Krogh; Kathrine Thisted Petersen; Gereon Müller; Michael Hai Nguyen; Katrine Rosendal Ehlers; Sidsel Holm Rasmussen; Helle Kaalund Tornbo; Luigi Rizzi; Joost Roger Robbe; Douglas Saddy; Kelly Sloan; Diego Krivochen; Peter Sells; Anna Pineda; Michelle Sheehan; Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson; Höskuldur Thráinsson; Ole Togeby; Øystein A. Vangsnes; Ralf Vogel; Marit Westergaard; Peter Widell; Peter Harder; Johanna Wood

doi:10.7146/aul.348

The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner

Authors

Ken Ramshøj Christensen (ed)

School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8758-240X

Henrik Jørgensen (ed)

Aarhus Universitet

Johanna Wood (ed)

Aarhus Universitet

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348

Synopsis

‘The Sign of the V’ is a festschrift in honour of Sten Vikner, written by friends, colleagues, and collaborators, present and past, to celebrate both his 60th birthday and his contribution to the field of linguistics. The papers cover a wide range of topics in theoretical and empirical linguistic research, from phonetics and phonology, through morphology, semantics, and syntax, to pragmatics, as well as language acquisition, second-language learning, language processing, language teaching, language contact, historical linguistics, and language variation and change. Many different languages are featured, including the Scandinavian languages (i.e. Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish), Catalan, Dutch, English, Finnish, West Flemish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Scots, and Yiddish. The scope and depth of the chapters in this anthology is a clear indication of the scope and depth of Sten Vikner’s own comparative research well as his impact on the field of linguistics.

Chapters

Foreword

Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Henrik Jørgensen, Johanna Wood

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Til en ung en kjekk en kar: Indefinite determiner spreading in Scandinavian and beyond

Merete Anderssen, Artemis Alexiadou, Terje Lohndal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.87

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The influence of Scots, especially of Robert Burns, on Danish poets and authors

Torben Arboe

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.88

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Litotes – an ironic or polyphonic figure of speech?

Merete Birkelund

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.89

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Language in the genes: Where’s the evidence?

Ocke-Schwen Bohn

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.90

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No escape from the island: On extraction from complement wh-clauses in English

Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette Nyvad

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.91

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Indirect threats as an illegal speech act

Tanya Karoli Christensen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.92

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The different Merge positions of the different types of relative clauses

Guglielmo Cinque

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.93

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Om brugen af i og på før udvalgte komplementer

Katrine Rosendal Ehlers, Sidsel Holm Rasmussen, Helle Kaalund Tornbo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.111

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Formative feedback as grammar teaching

Susana Silvia Fernández, Hanne Wacher Kjærgaard

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.94

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The temporal interpretation of West Flemish non-inverted V3

Liliane Haegeman

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.95

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Grammatical rules are discrete, not weighted, and not vulnerable

Hubert Haider

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.96

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Pre-aspiration and the problem of zeroes: Phonological rules can be variable

Míša Hejná

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.97

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We ...with Anna: Inclusory coordination in Finnish and Fenno-Swedish

Anders Holmberg, Klaus Kurki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.98

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English vocabulary in L1 Danish and L1 Finnish learners: Vocabulary sizes, word frequency effect, and cognate facilitation

Camilla Søballe Horslund

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.99

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The differences between Danish determiner and quantity genitives: The essential data set

Per Anker Jensen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.100

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Principle C

Kyle Johnsen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.101

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The XP-þá-construction and V2

Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.102

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Some remarks on the position of adverb phrases (mainly in Danish)

Henrik Jørgensen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.103

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Not all processing difficulties are created equal

Johannes Kizach

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.104

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The range of quantifiers: An empirical Investigation of set size

Eva Klingvall, Fredrik Heinat

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.105

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Pronominale Referenz im Jiddischen und Deutschen im 21. Jahrhundert

Steffen Krogh, Kathrine Thisted Petersen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.106

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The third construction and strength of C: A gradient harmonic grammar approach

Gereon Müller

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.107

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On some postpositional elements in Danish

Michael Hai Nguyen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.108

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On the Role of Syncretism in Finiteness Marking for Verb Second in Diachrony and Acquisition

Anne Mette Nyvad

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.109

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Notes on the map of the left periphery in Danish

Luigi Rizzi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.112

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Hvordan en gammel kontrakt kan kaste nyt lys over hollændernes skriftsprog på Amager i 1600-tallet

Joost Roger Robbe

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.113

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Whoever that likes relatives...

Douglas Saddy, Kelly Sloan, Diego Krivochen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.114

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Shared objects in conjoined VPs in Germanic

Peter Sells

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.115

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Non-nominal arguments and transitivity in Romance and Scandinavian

Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.110

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Subject Float, Low Subject Trapping, and Case in Icelandic

Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.116

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Icelandic Modal Verbs Revisited

Höskuldur Thráinsson

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.117

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The semantics of syntactic constructions

Ole Togeby

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.118

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COMP trace effects across North Germanic varieties

Øystein A. Vangsnes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.119

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Constructionist OT. The case of German verb inflection

Ralf Vogel

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.120

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The asymmetric nature of V2: Evidence from learner languages

Artemis Alexiadou, Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.121

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Formal semantics and functional semantics

Peter Widell, Peter Harder

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.122

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A couple (of) changes in the ‘Brown family’: British and US English compared

Johanna Wood

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.123

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References

For reasons of space this is a selective, rather than a complete, list of Sten Vikner’s publications.

Biberauer, Theresa & Sten Vikner. 2017. Having the edge: A new perspective on pseudocoordination in Danish and Afrikaans. In Nicholas LaCara, Keir Moulton & Anne-Michelle Tessier (eds.), A schrift to fest Kyle Johnson, 77–90. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts. doi:10.7275/r57d2s95.

Bjerre, Tavs, Eva Engels, Henrik Jørgensen & Sten Vikner. 2008. Points of convergence between functional and formal approaches to syntactic analysis. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 82. 131–166.

Engels, Eva & Sten Vikner. 2013a. Scandinavian object shift, remnant VP-topicalisation, verb particles and causatives. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 36(2). 219–244.

Engels, Eva & Sten Vikner. 2014. Scandinavian object shift and optimality theory. Palgrave Macmillan.

Grimshaw, Jane & Sten Vikner. 1993. Obligatory adjuncts and the structure of events. In Eric Reuland & Werner Abraham (eds.), Knowledge and language, 145–159. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Heck, Fabian, Gereon Muller, Ralf Vogel, Silke Fischer, Sten Vikner & Tanja Schmid. 2002. On the nature of the input in optimality theory. Linguistic Review 19(4). 345–376. doi:10.1515/tlir.2002.003.

Heycock, Caroline, Antonella Sorace, Zakaris Svabo Hansen, Frances Wilson & Sten Vikner. 2012. Detecting the late stages of syntactic change: The loss of V-to-T in Faroese. Language 88(3). 558–600. doi:10.1353/lan.2012.0053.

Johnson, Kyle & Sten Vikner. 1994. The position of the verb in Scandinavian infinitives. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 53. 61–84.

Kizach, Johannes & Sten Vikner. 2018. Head adjacency and the Danish dative alternation. Studia Linguistica 72(2). 191–213. doi:10.1111/stul.12047.

Schwartz, Bonnie D. & Sten Vikner. 2007. The verb always leaves IP in V2 clauses. In Ian G. Roberts (ed.), Comparative grammar – Critical concepts in linguistics, vol. 5, 244–302. London: Routledge.

Thráinsson, Höskuldur & Sten Vikner. 1995. Modals and double modals in the Scandinavian languages. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 55. 51–88.

Vikner, Carl & Sten Vikner. 2008. Hierarchical morphological structure and Ambiguity. In Merete Birkelund, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Coco Norén (eds.), L’énonciation dans tous ses états, 541–560. Peter Lang.

Vikner, Sten. 1988. Modals in Danish and event expressions. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 39. 1–33.

Vikner, Sten. 1990. Verb movement and the licensing of NP-positions in the Germanic languages. Geneva: University of Geneva PhD dissertation.

Vikner, Sten. 1991. Relative der and other C° elements in Danish. Lingua 84(2–3). 109–136. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(91)90067-f.

Vikner, Sten. 1994a. Scandinavian object shift and West Germanic scrambling. In Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Studies on scrambling, 487–517. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110857214.487.

Vikner, Sten. 1995. Verb movement and expletive subjects in the Germanic languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vikner, Sten. 1997a. V°-to-I° movement and inflection for person in all tenses. In Liliane Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar – Handbook in generative syntax, 189–213. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Vikner, Sten. 2001a. Predicative adjective agreement. In Kirsten Adamzik & Helen Christen (eds.), Sprachkontakt, Sprachvergleich, Sprachvariation, 399–414. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Vikner, Sten. 2001b. The interpretation of object shift and optimality theory. In Gereon Müller & Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), Competition in syntax (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 49), 321–340. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Vikner, Sten. 2001c. Verb movement variation in Germanic and optimality theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. habilitation.

Vikner, Sten. 2003. Null objects under coordination in Yiddish and Scandinavian. In Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson & Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson (eds.), Grammar in focus, 365–375. Lund: Dept. of Scandinavian Languages, University of Lund.

Vikner, Sten. 2005a. Object shift: (Chapter 46). In Henk van Riemsdijk & Martin Everaert (eds.), The Blackwell companion to syntax, vol. 3, 392–436. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Vikner, Sten. 2005b. Immobile complex verbs in Germanic. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 8(1–2). 83–115. doi:10.1007/s10828-004-0726-9.

Vikner, Sten. 2007. Teoretisk og komparativ syntaks. In Henrik Jørgensen & Peter Widell (eds.), Det bedre argument, 469–480. Aarhus: Wessel og Huitfeldt.

Vikner, Sten. 2011. Trees and fields and negative polarity. Hermes 47. 39–55.

Vikner, Sten. 2014. Possessorens status inden for nominalgruppen. Ny Forskning I Grammatik 21. 193–211.

Vikner, Sten. 2017a. CP-recursion and the derivation of verb second in Germanic main and embedded clauses. In Constantin Freitag, Oliver Bott & Fabian Schlotterbeck (eds.), Two perspectives on V2, 1–26. Universität Konstanz.

Vikner, Sten. 2017b. Germanic verb particle variation. In Enoch Aboh, Eric Haeberli, Genoveva Puskás & Manuela Schönenberger (eds.), Elements of comparative syntax, 371–398. Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9781501504037-014.

Vikner, Sten. 2017c. Object shift in Scandinavian. In Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to syntax, 2784–2844. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom114.

Vikner, Sten, Ken Ramshøj Christensen & Anne Mette Nyvad. 2017. V2 and cP/CP. In Laura Bailey & Michelle Sheehan (eds.), Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure (Open Generative Syntax 1), 313–324. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1117724.

Vikner, Sten, Caroline Heycock, Antonella Sorace, Zakaris Svabo Hansen & Frances Wilson. 2011. Residual V-to-I in Faroese and its lack in Danish: Detecting the final stages of a syntactic change. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 87. 137–165.

Vikner, Sten & Henrik Jørgensen. 2017. En formel vs. en funktionel tilgang til dansk sætningsstruktur. NyS, Nydanske Sprogstudier 52–53. 135–168. doi:10.7146/nys.v1i52- 53.24954.

Vikner, Sten & Carl Vikner. 1997. The aspectual complexity of the simple past in English. In Carl Bache & Alex Klinge (eds.), A comparison with French and Danish, 267–284. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag.

Wood, Johanna L. & Sten Vikner. 2011. Noun phrase structure and movement: A crosslinguistic comparison of such/sådan/solch and so/så/so. In Harry Perridon & Petra Sleeman (eds.), The noun phrase in Romance and Germanic, 89–110. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/la.171.07woo.