Table 12.
Subject typesand verb placement in topicalisations with here/there (for Emma, Emily and Sunniva) compared to other topics (for Emma and Emily only), divided into verb types.
| Speaker | Here/there (%) | Other topics (%) | Other topics (%) | Other topics (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lexical verbs | Aux and be | do | ||||||
| +V2/DP | -V2/Pr | +V2/DP | -V2/Pr | +V2/DP | -V2/Pr | +V2/DP | -V2/Pr | |
| Emma | 17/17 | 2/2 | 0/0 | 22/28 | 7/8 | 24/31 | 0/0 | 1/1 |
| (100%) | (100%) | (0%) | (78.6%) | (87.5%) | (77.4%) | (0%) | (100%) | |
| Emily | 19/19 | 13/13 | 0/9 | 7/7 | 10/11 | 6/22 | 21/21 | 3/6 |
| (100%) | (100%) | (0%) | (100%) | (90.9%) | (27.3%) | (100%) | (50%) | |
| Sunniva | 12/12 | 8/8 | – | 1/1 | – | 1/1 | – | – |
| (100%) | (100%) | (100%) | (100%) | |||||