This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax.
E. Engels
Adverb Holmberg's generalisation Optimality Theory Syntax adverbial causative verbs comparative syntax double object constructions object object shift order preservation particle verbs remnant VP-topicalisation the Scandinavian languages word order variation