Imperative clauses in the Nordic languages typically display V1 word order. The referential subject is normally absent, with the exception of Icelandic, where it is normally overt (Einarsson 1967:159, Thrainsson 2007:6). According to Thrainsson (2007:6), the imperative verb is followed by a reduced from of the second person pronoun, except in very formal style, where the pronoun can be absent, or pronounced in its full form. Based on examples found in the reference grammars and some other sources, negative adverbs may appear either after the finite verb, as is typical in Swedish (Teleman et al. 1999), see (1), and Danish (Heltof & Hansen 2011), see (2), or it can either follow or precede the verb, as in Norwegian (Faarlund et al. 1997), see (3).
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