VO-OV-variasjon i nordsamisk: Hva kan LIA Sápmi fortelle oss?

In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that general is most frequent order. However, also find many instances of SAuxOV my material, particularly sentences with periphrastic verb forms where main infinitive (that is, modal constructions) object a pronoun. addition, some cases precedes both auxiliary verb, but crucially without being topicalized to clause-initial position. Based account Norwegian Object Shift Bentzen Anderssen (2019), suggest Sami may be analyzed as IP-internal topicalization, objects are familiar context move thematic position VP TP. This will for pattern tense forms. Furthermore, there an additional higher topic position, movement what finite verbs. involved patterns verb.