Henrik Jørgensen

This paper deals with the doubling of left syntactic positions in Danish. Such doublings consist of a referential element: a NP or a clause, and an anaphoric element, an unstressed personal pronoun or an unstressed resumptive adverb. In main clauses, the CP-spec position may double in this way, whereas subordinate clauses may double the subject. This construction is found all over Mainland Scandinavia, cp. Johannessen 2014. In present-day Danish, its main domain is spoken language, but it is also frequently found in poetry. Unless there is a clear contrast, the construction is optional as shown in the analysis of a broadcasted public speech (sect. 5). In earlier versions of Danish, as shown in sect. 4, the construction is both more frequent in writing and also seems almost obligatory.