Original version
Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. 2014, 1, 381-395
Abstract
Among the present-day Scandinavian languages, only Danish and possibly Faroese have a split auxiliary system where unaccusative verbs form perfects with BE, while transitive and unergative verbs form perfects with HAVE (see e.g. Vikner & Sprouse 1988, Platzack 1988, Larsson 2009, 2013); see the Danish examples in (1).[1] Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish have the auxiliary HAVE in both contexts, just like English. [...]