Danish verb second

This file records where the finite verb of Danish moves to the left periphery, as a distribution over sentence types and embedding contexts. Danish is verb second in root declaratives, wh-questions and yes/no-questions as Standard Norwegian is, and in some types of exclamative, Hvor er han sød!, though not all, as Westergaard notes; imperatives are not verb second.

References

• [Wes09]

def Danish.verbSecond : Clause.Distribution

Danish has obligatory verb second in the three root clause types, verb second in some exclamatives, and none in imperatives.

Equations

• Danish.verbSecond Clause.SentenceType.declarative Clause.EmbeddingContext.matrix = some Clause.Occurrence.obligatory
• Danish.verbSecond Clause.SentenceType.polar Clause.EmbeddingContext.matrix = some Clause.Occurrence.obligatory
• Danish.verbSecond Clause.SentenceType.constituent Clause.EmbeddingContext.matrix = some Clause.Occurrence.obligatory
• Danish.verbSecond Clause.SentenceType.exclamative Clause.EmbeddingContext.matrix = some Clause.Occurrence.optional
• Danish.verbSecond Clause.SentenceType.imperative Clause.EmbeddingContext.matrix = some Clause.Occurrence.excluded
• Danish.verbSecond x✝¹ x✝ = none