PF Merger in Stylistic Fronting and Object Shift

In this paper I examine stylistic fronting and object shift in Scandinavian. I show that several otherwise puzzling properties of Scandinavian stylistic fronting and object shift, most notably, the subject gap restriction on the stylistic fronting construction and the saving effect of V-topicalization on object shift in auxiliary+participle constructions, discussed by Holmberg (1999), can be accounted for in a principled way under PF merger analyses of these constructions. For the object shift construction, I essentially follow Bobaljik’s (1994, 1995) PF merger analysis. For the stylistic fronting construction, I provide a new PF merger analysis, which is extended to the adjacency effect in Bulgarian wh-questions. The PF merger analyses of the Scandinavian constructions in question are shown to provide evidence that adverbs interfere with PF merger and to provide an argument for the multiple spell-out hypothesis. In section 1 of the paper I discuss stylistic fronting. In section 2 I discuss object shift. Section 3 is the conclusion.