Open AccessHar dansk produktive postpositioner?
Author(s) -
Michael Hai Nguyen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ny forskning i grammatik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2446-1709
pISSN - 1902-1291
DOI - 10.7146/nfg.v0i27.122133
Subject(s) - danish , linguistics , word (group theory) , computer science , order (exchange) , word order , philosophy , economics , finance
In this paper, I argue that a number of elements in Danish have postpositional properties and could be regarded as postpositions. Since the particle construction and the postpositional construction have the same word order (NP < particle/postposition), it is necessary to distinguish between the two constructions. For this purpose, I introduce four syntactic tests. I examine the empirical data and argue that the postpositional elements come in two shapes: they either express (i) directionality (goal and source) or (ii) temporal and physical spaces.