This article discusses the fact that despite almost identical syntactically, the Mainland Scandinavian languages sometimes display clear syntactic differences. One instance regards the word order in constructions with låta, LET, where Danish accepts a word order that is not grammatically correct in Swedish. In this connection the impact of the Swedish reflexive pronoun sig is of interest, since in the presence of sig the Danish word order is allowed in Swedish as well. I will claim that there is a crucial difference between the LET-constructions in Danish and Swedish, where the Danish structural description however matches the Swedish one in constructions containing a reflexive pronoun. Furthermore, I will show that the Swedish reflexive pronoun sig is connected to the passive-s, since sig as well as -s sometimes bears a θ-role and sometimes not. The focus is primarily on Swedish and Danish, since Norwegian in most respects behaves like Swedish.

The aim of this article is to propose a syntactic analysis of a construction found in spoken Swedish, namely the so-called ba-construction, similar to the English like-construction. In the construction at hand, ba is usedto introduce a quotation in a narrative sequence of the speech, hence fulfils the role of the finite verb in the clause; the construction does not contain any main verb. In my analysis, however, I assume that there is a null verb UTTER in V°. In the presence of an adverbial (of time), the word order of the clause is classified as V3, which word order normally is ruled out in Swedish, being a V2 language. I will propose that in order to account for the deviating clause structure in the presence of ba, and in addition, ba and an adverbial, one needs a split CP analysis. My proposal is that ba is to be considered a finiteness marker, situated in Fin° and carrying a [Fin]-featwe, and that the adverbial, when present, is situated in Spec,ForceP, constituting a frame topic for the whole utterance.

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