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    Sten VIKNER
    Department of English
    Inst. of Language, Literature and Culture
    University of Aarhus
    DK-8000 Århus C
    Denmark


Selected Publications

(You may also want to visit:
a complete list of publications since 2001, a list of talks and conference participation since 2004,
the object positions project list of hand-outs, the object positions project list of publications
the clauses/nominals project list of hand-outs, the clauses/nominals project list of publications.)

2008: (with Tavs Bjerre, Eva Engels & Henrik Jørgensen)
"Points of convergence between functional and formal approaches to syntactic analysis", Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 82, 131-166.
2008: (with Carl Vikner)
"Hierarchical Morphological Structure and Ambiguity". Merete Birkelund, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, & Coco Norén (eds.), L'énonciation dans tous ses états - Mélanges offerts à Henning Nølke à l'occasion de ses soixante ans, Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, pp. 541-560.
2007:
"Teoretisk og komparativ syntaks" [Theoretical and Comparative Syntax]. Henrik Jørgensen & Peter Widell (eds.), Det bedre argument - Festskrift til Ole Togeby, 7. marts 2007., Wessel og Huitfeldt, Århus, pp. 469-480.
2006: (with Eva Engels)
"Satzglieder, Kasus und semantische Rollen: Eine Einführung" [Grammatical Functions, Case and Semantic Roles: An Introduction]. Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning 4.1, 17-37.
2006: (with Eva Engels)
"An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of Scandinavian Object Shift and Remnant VP-Topicalisation". Linguistics in Potsdam 25, 195-231.
2006: (with Volkmar Engerer)
"Forord til Kasus, sætningsled og semantiske roller" [Foreword to Case, grammatical functions and semantic roles]. Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning 4.1, 5-16.
2005:
"Det finitte verbums position i dansk før og nu" [The position of the finite verb in Danish earlier and now]. Peter Widell & Mette Kunøe (eds.), 10. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog [10th Conference on the Research into the Danish Language], Dept. of Scandinavian Languages, University of Aarhus, pp. 383-394.
    (For those who have the book, here is a pdf-version of page 384, because the syntactic tree on this page came out garbled)
2005:
"Immobile Complex Verbs in Germanic ". Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 8.1-2, 83-115.
2005:
"Object Shift". Henk van Riemsdijk & Martin Everaert (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 392-436.
2005:
Hand-out: "Dansk Funktionel Lingvistik - spredte og kritiske bemærkninger" [Danish Functional Linguistics - scattered and critical remarks]. Hand-out from a meeting in the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen on Sept. 27, 2005, which comments on
      Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft, Michael Herslund & Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (2005): Dansk Funktionel Lingvistik - en helhedsforståelse af forholdet mellem sprogstruktur, sprogbrug og kognition [Danish Functional Linguistics - a general understanding of the relation between language structure, language use and cognition], Københavns Universitet / Handelshøjskolen i København / Roskilde Universitetscenter.
2004:
"Nødvendigheden af en formel tilgang til sprogvidenskab" [The necessity of a formal approach to linguistics]. Humaniora, 2004.2, 12-16.
    ("Official" pdf-version of the paper as published but with faulty phonetic transcription, 820 KB)
    (Unofficial pdf-version of the paper, with correct phonetic transcription and with underlining in examples, 41 KB)
2003:
"Null Objects under Coordination in Yiddish and Scandinavian". Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson & Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (eds.), Grammar in Focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack, vol. II, Dept. of Scandinavian Languages, University of Lund, pp. 365-375.
2003:
"Tempus som tre uafhængige træk" [Tense as three independent features]. Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning 1.1, 89-104.
2002: (with Fabian Heck, Gereon Müller, Ralf Vogel, Silke Fischer, and Tanja Schmid)
"On the nature of the Input in Optimality Theory". The Linguistic Review 19.4, 345-376.
2001:
"The Interpretation of Object Shift and Optimality Theory". Gereon Müller & Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), Competition in Syntax, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 321-340. (Earlier version from 1997: "The Interpretation of Object Shift, Optimality Theory and Minimalism". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 60, 1-24.)
2001:
"Predicative Adjective Agreement". Kirsten Adamzik & Helen Christen (eds.), Sprachkontakt, Sprachvergleich, Sprachvariation: Festschrift für Gottfried Kolde, Niemeyer, Tübingen, pp. 399-414.
Verb Movement Variation in Germanic and Optimality Theory 2001 (unpublished):
"Verb Movement Variation in Germanic and Optimality Theory". vii + 269 pp. "Habilitationschrift", University of Tübingen.

(Also available split into four smaller pdf-files)

Optimality-theoretic Syntax 2001:
"Vo-to-Io Movement and do-Insertion in Optimality Theory". Géraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, & Sten Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 427-464.
1999:
"Ledstillingen i dansk og government & binding" [Word order in Danish and the theory of government & binding]. Per Anker Jensen og Peter Skadhauge (eds.), Sætningsskemaet i generativ grammatik, Institut for Erhvervssproglig Informatik og Kommunikation, Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, pp. 83-110.
1999:
"Vo-til-Io flytning og personfleksion i alle tempora" [Vo-to-Io Movement and Inflection for Person in All Tenses]. Íslenskt mál, 19, 81-128. (expanded and translated version of my paper from 1997).
1997:
"Førsteopposition ved Andreas Sveens doktordisputas" [Official Comments at the Ph.D.-defence of Andreas Sveen]. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 15.2, 209-218.
1997:
"Vo-to-Io Movement and Inflection for Person in All Tenses". Liliane Haegeman (ed.), The New Comparative Syntax, Longman, London, pp. 189-213. (Earlier version from 1995: "Vo-to-Io Movement and Inflection for Person in All Tenses". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 55, 1-27).
Deutsche Satzstruktur - Grundlagen der syntaktischen Analyse 1997: (with Angelika Wöllstein-Leisten, Axel Heilmann, & Peter Stepan)
Deutsche Satzstruktur - Grundlagen der syntaktischen Analyse [German Clause Structure - Foundations of Syntactic Analysis]. Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen, viii + 136 pp.
1997: (with Carl Vikner)
"The Aspectual Complexity of Simple Past in English. A Comparison with French and Danish". Carl Bache & Alex Klinge (eds.), Sounds, Structures and Senses. Essays presented to Niels Davidsen-Nielsen on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Odense University Press, Odense, pp. 267-284.
1996: (with Bonnie D. Schwartz)
"The Verb Always Leaves IP in V2 Clauses". Adriana Belletti & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Parameters and Functional Heads, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 11-62. Reprinted 2007 in Ian Roberts (ed.), Comparative Grammar - Critical Concepts, Routledge, London, vol. 5, pp. 244-302.
Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages 1995:
Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages. Oxford University Press, New York, x + 294 pp.
Reviews: 1996: American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 8.1, 117-121
1996: Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi 111, 149-150
1997: Journal of Linguistics 33.2, 635-641
1998: Language 74.1, 178-180
1998: Nordic Journal of Linguistics 21.1, 65-73
1998: Studies in Language 22.1, 227-239
1998: Kratylos 43, 209-211
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax 1995: (with Hubert Haider & Susan Olsen)
"Introduction". Hubert Haider, Susan Olsen, & Sten Vikner (eds.), Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 1-45.
1995: (with Höskuldur Thráinsson)
"Modals and Double Modals in the Scandinavian Languages". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 55, 51-88.
1994:
"Finite Verb Movement in Scandinavian Embedded Clauses". Norbert Hornstein & David Lightfoot (eds.), Verb Movement, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 117-147.
1994:
"Scandinavian Object Shift and West Germanic Scrambling". Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Studies on Scrambling, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 487-517.
1994: (with Kyle Johnson)
"The Position of the Verb in Scandinavian Infinitives". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 53, 61-84.
(You can also download an unpublished manuscript from 1998 by the same authors: "Embedded Verb Second in Infinitival Clauses").
1993: (with Jane Grimshaw)
"Obligatory Adjuncts and the Structure of Events". Eric Reuland & Werner Abraham (eds.), Knowledge and Language: Vol. II Lexical and Conceptual Structure, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 145-159.
1991:
"Relative der and Other Co Elements in Danish". Lingua 84.2/3, 109-136.
1989:
"Object Shift and Double Objects in Danish". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 44, 141-155.
1989: (with Bonnie D. Schwartz)
"All Verb Second Clauses are CPs". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 43, 27-49.
1988:
"Modals In Danish and Event Expressions". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 39, 1-33.
1988: (with Rex A. Sprouse)
"Have/Be-Selection as an A-Chain Membership Requirement". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 38, 1-48.
1987:
"Case Assignment Differences Between Danish and Swedish". Robin Allan & Michael P. Barnes (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference of Teachers of Scandinavian Studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, University College London, London, pp. 262-281.
1987 (unpublished):
"Danish Long Vowels". 11 pp. Ms, Department of English, University of Geneva.
1985:
"Parameters of Binder and of Binding Category in Danish". Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 23, 1-61.
1985:
"Reichenbach Revisited: One, Two, or Three Temporal Relations?". Acta Linguistica Hafniensis 19.2, 81-95.

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