Extraction and Pronoun Preposing in Scandinavian

It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses have attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable Icelandic Faroese. We hypothesize this may reflect whether or not speakers tend prepose unstressed object pronouns as a way establishing coherent discourse. In article we investigate what extent pronoun preposing is used Swedish, Faroese there any correlation the acceptabilty from clauses. show use very limited whereas often VP sentential anaphor tað. both languages extraction mainly unacceptable, being somewhat more accepting presentational relatives. A crucial factor seems associated marked, contrastive interpretation not.