There is well known variation in the Scandinavian languages with respect to verb placement
in embedded clauses (see, eg, Holmberg and Platzack 1995, Bobaljik 2002, Thráinsson …

This thesis explores word order variability in verb-final languages. Verb-final languages
have a reputation for a high amount of word order variability. However, that reputation …

This paper investigates the word order in embedded clauses in Heritage Scandinavian
(American Norwegian and American Swedish). It is shown that Heritage Scandinavian has a …

This paper is concerned with the word order of particle constructions in the history of
Swedish. Unlike the other Germanic languages, present-day Swedish only allows the order …

The historical investigation shows that control infinitives have developed more clause like
properties over time. In Old Swedish (1220–1526), they only rarely contained eg negations …

It is sometimes taken for granted that heads as well as phrases may form coordinate
conjuncts. Still, what looks like a head may be a phrase with only the head visible. This …

This thesis presents an investigation into the causes surrounding the emergence and
spread of temporal auxiliary verb omission in Swedish. In modern Swedish, certain finite …

Some Germanic languages (eg German) have a VP structure where multiple verbs behave
as an inseparable unit, ie a verbal cluster, and some (eg English) do not. This seems to be at …

This thesis presents an investigation into the causes surrounding the emergence and
spread of temporal auxiliary verb omission in Swedish. In modern Swedish, certain finite …

Abstract Sangfelt, A. 2019. Syntaktiska strukturer i tiden. OV-och bisatsledföljd i svenskans
historia.(Syntactic Structures in Time. OV and Subordinate Clause Word Order in the History …