NDLI: Optional ha in Swedish and Norwegian

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Julien, Marit
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	In Norwegian and Swedish, the auxiliary ha 'have' can sometimes be omitted. Earlier analyses have treated this as a unitary phenomenon. However, while ha can only be left out after modal verbs in Norwegian, ha-omission has a wider distribution in Swedish. This indicates that the optionality of ha depends on more than one factor. In constructions with modal verbs, the head that is spelled out as ha can be present or absent in both languages. That is, the optionality of ha is connected to the optionality of generating the relevant head. In Swedish, there is the additional possibility of generating ha without spelling it out. More precisely, ha need not be spelled out if ha shares its features with some element that is overtly realized. Still, there is much variation between speakers of Swedish concerning the distribution of optional ha. It appears that a number of grammatical factors contribute to the optionality of a phonologically realized ha.
Starting Page	67
Ending Page	95
Page Count	29
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	1-3
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Linguistics (general) Comparative Linguistics Germanic Languages Syntax Theoretical Languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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