Danish Infinitives Query

[Uri Horesh]

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Dear Linguists,

The following query was sent by Dr. Outi Bat-El of Tel Aviv University.
Could you kindly reply directly to her at <obatel at post.tau.ac.il>.

Thank you,
Uri Horesh




According to Anderson (1992 and earlier studies) Danish infinitives end in a
schwa suffix and the imperatives are formed by truncating this schwa. Do ALL
Danish infinitives end in a schwa? If not, what is the imperative
corresponding to an infinitive not ending in a schwa? Does this group
consists of a few isolated verbs or is it a rather large group of verbs?