Faroese: papers

Verb movement in contemporary Faroese: papers

Heycock, Caroline, Antonella Sorace, Zakaris Svabo Hansen, Frances Wilson. 2013. Acquisition in variation (and vice versa): V-to-T in Faroese children.
Language Acquisition 20.1: 5--22
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This article is a sigificantly revised and expanded version of (Re)discovering an auxiliary/main verb distinction in Scandinavian children.

Heycock, Caroline. 2012. Specification, equation, and agreement in copular sentences.
Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57(2): 209-240

Heycock, Caroline, Antonella Sorace, Zakaris Svabo Hansen, Sten Vikner, Frances Wilson. 2012. Detecting the late stages of syntactic change: the loss of V-to-T in Faroese.
Language 88.3: 558--600.
This article is a significantly expanded version of Heycock et al 2011 (WPSS)

Heycock, Caroline, Antonella Sorace, Zakaris Svabo Hansen, Sten Vikner, Frances Wilson. 2011. Residual V-to-I in Faroese and its lack in Danish: Detecting the final stages of a syntactic change.
Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 87: 137-165.

Heycock, Caroline, Antonella Sorace, and Zakaris Svabo Hansen. 2010. V-to-I and V2 in subordinate clauses: an investigation of Faroese in relation to Icelandic and Danish.
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 13: 61--97.
If you do not have access to the journal, a pre-final draft is available, but please cite only the published version, and note that all the test sentences are provided online on the journal website.

Heycock, Caroline, Antonella Sorace, Zakaris Svabo Hansen, Frances Wilson. 2010. (Re)discovering an auxiliary/main verb distinction in Scandinavian children. In J. Costa et a. (eds) Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009.
A prepublication draft is available here; please cite the final, published version.

Heycock, Caroline. 2009. Agreement in specificational sentences in Faroese.
Nordlyd 36.2 NORMS Papers on Faroese: 57-77.

Bentzen, Kristine, Piotr Garbacz, Caroline Heycock and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson. 2009. On variation in Faroese verb placement.
Nordlyd 36.2 NORMS Papers on Faroese: 78-102.

Heycock, Caroline, and Antonella Sorace 2007. Verb movement in Faroese: New perspectives on an old question.
To appear in Nordlyd 35.