Morphophonological variation in Norwegian negative marker enclisis

Abstract

The study looks at 4 variants of negative clitics in Norwegian, how frequently they are used and which types of verbs they combine with. Using corpora of spoken Norwegian, we look at how diffierent variants of the negative clitics vary in frequency of use and how each variant is constrained by the form of the verbs they cliticize to. In particular, we look at the preceding vowel interact with the negative clitic and how this interaction relates to the previous literature on Norwegian negative clitics.

Argument placement in Norwegian

“…ARGUMENT PLACEMENT IN NORWEGIAN [35] addition to the disyllabic ikke/ikkje/ittje. The monosyllabic form is more likely to appear with auxiliaries, copulas and modal verbs, where the negation cliticizes to the verb and gives rise to more or less lexicalized forms like ha'kke ('have not'), må'kke ('may not') and ae'kke ('is not'); see Lindstad (1999) and Torgersen & Garbacz (2020) for discussions of the limits of cliticized negation in Norwegian.…”