WOPIS: Remarks on Word Order, Prosody and Information Structure: the prefield in Swedish (and Dutch)

• Event: Seminar
• Lecturer: Annie Zaenen
• Date: 28 May 2019
• Duration: 2 hours
• Venue: Gothenburg

The talk is part of a very new project with Elisabet Engdahl and Filippa Lindahl. I will present some preliminary data on what one can find in first position in Swedish declarative main clauses and compare the situation in Swedish with that in Dutch. I discuss how relevant the notions of topic and focus are in the light of these data.