In embedded clauses the base position of the negation (and other proposition-related adverbials) in Danish is between the subject and the finite verb as illustrated below.
hvis det ikke er for sent, vil jeg gerne deltage if it not is too late will I like to.participateHowever, in certain contexts the negation may occur between the complementizer and the subject:
hvis ikke det er for sent, vil jeg gerne deltage if not it is too late will I like to.parcipateThis phenomenon has hitherto primarily been studied in the context of negation but corpus studies show that it applies to a wde range of sentence adverbials and even inherently negated quantificational phrases. In the talk I will discuss the constraints on this particular construction, the scope of the preposed sentence adverbs as well as the epistemic implicatures associated with the preposed sentence adverb. The analysis will be within the frame-work of HPSG.