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When Covert Modality Sneaks into Your Grammar: "wh"-infinitives in American Norwegian
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Michael Putnam; Åshild Søfteland – Second Language Research, 2024
American Norwegian (AmNo), a moribund heritage variety of Norwegian spoken predominantly in the Upper Midwest of the US, licenses "wh"-infinitives (i.e. indirect questions), which are structures that are not acceptable in either standard Norwegian Bokmål or Norwegian dialects. Adopting a spanning-account of syntax (Blix, 2021; Julien,…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, North Americans, Syntax