@article{ART002551102},
author={Park, Hyeon-Sook},
title={Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective},
journal={Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea},
issn={1229-8646},
year={2019},
number={24},
pages={67-92}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Hyeon-Sook
TI - Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective
JO - Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 24
PB - The Scandinavian Society of Korea
SP - 67
EP - 92
SN - 1229-8646
AB - The main function of the Swedish word order is to mark syntactic relations, e.g. sentence elements and sentence types. Variations in word order are therefore limited and relatively fixed compared to other languages. The main purpose of this paper is to examine Swedish word order which is often found to be one of the most difficulties among Swedish learners and the focus of the paper is the syntactic function of the word order.
Swedish basic word order is the subject(S)-verb(V)-object(O) and the order is used to distinguish sentence elements, particularly subjects and objects. The word order is also used to distinguish sentence types. In yes/no questions and commands, the verb comes first in the sentence, whereas in statements and Wh-questions, the verb comes second in the sentence. Swedish word order also plays an important role in distinguishing between main clauses and subordinate clauses. When a sentence starts with a sentence element other than the subject, the main clause becomes an inverted sentence in the order of ‘the verb(V)-the subject(S)’, but the subordinate clause always takes the form in the normal order of the subject(S)-verb(V). Besides, sentence adverbials are placed after verbs in main clauses, but before verbs in subordinate clauses. Swedish word order is closely related to the so-called place-holder (or subject-verb) constraint which means that all clauses must contain a subject and a verb. In Swedish, it is not possible to leave out the subject and the verb because they are used to distinguish sentence elements and sentence types.
KW - Swedish word order;syntactic function;sentence elements;sentence types;main clauses/subordinate clauses;place-holder (subject-verb) constraint
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Park, Hyeon-Sook. (2019). Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective. Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea, 24, 67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. 2019, "Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective", Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea, no.24, pp.67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook "Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective" Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea 24 pp.67-92 (2019) : 67.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective. 2019; 24 : 67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. "Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective" Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea no.24(2019) : 67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective. Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea, 24, 67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective. Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea. 2019; 24 67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective. 2019; 24 : 67-92.
Park, Hyeon-Sook. "Swedish Word Order from a Syntactic Perspective" Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea no.24(2019) : 67-92.
