This book is a study of children's first language acquisition of word order in Norwegian, more
specifically of the acquisition of verb movement and the verb-second (V2) pheno menon …

The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013) proposes that acquiring properties of
the functional morphology is the most challenging part of learning a second language. In the …

Investigating the variation between verb-second (V2) and non-V2 word order in declaratives
in Middle English, this chapter explores how syntax and information structure interact in the …

Abstract Lindgren, J. 2018. Developing narrative competence. Swedish, Swedish-German
and Swedish-Turkish children aged 4–6. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 19. 292 pp …

In the field of Germanic linguistics, there has been a long-standing debate as to the question
of how to analyze sentences with verb second (V2) word order. In particular, the question …

INTHIS CHAPTER, WE investigate verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage
language spoken in the United States, that is, in a situation where the heritage speakers …

This chapter provides an overview of the micro-variation in Norwegian when it comes to
Verb Second (V2) word order, both in the various dialects and in the two written standards …

Two subject positions are identified in main and embedded clauses in Norwegian,
appearing above or below negation and certain adverbs, and a similar situation is attested …

This paper argues for a unification of two seemingly unrelated phenomena from unrelated
language families: Verb Second in Germanic, and Conjunct versus Independent Order in …

This paper provides an overview of Germanic languages as heritage languages, ie
languages acquired naturalistically by children in parts of the world where these languages …