ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the syntax of Norwegian that is how words are combined into longer phrases, utterances, clauses and sentences. The clause is one of the basic elements of sentence structure or syntax. The function of finite verb or non-finite verb is simply to indicate sentence type by means of the resulting word order, but it also gives the topicalised verb contrastive stress. One view of the verb phrase includes elements governed by the main verb such as objects, complements and adverbials. The order of objects is usually the same as in English: the indirect object precedes the direct object unless the indirect object is a prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases comprise a preposition plus a prepositional complement which is governed by the preposition and may consist of a noun phrase, infinitive phrase or subclause. As in English, the subordinator som, ‘that, which’, is omitted when it does not refer to the subject in the subclause.
