(45) Can an unaccusative verb be fronted together with the subject in a periphrastic/modal construction when it is contrasted or given?
As in questions (2) and (4), please make sure the sentence contains a finite and a non-finite verb. The finite verb can be a tense auxiliary, a modal verb, or else.
a) Given verb and subject
Prompt: Will/can there arise any problems?
*Problems arise will/can there certainly not.
or
Prompt: There certainly will/can arise many problems!
*No! Problems arise will/can there never.
or
Prompt: Problems could certainly arise in such a constellation, and …
*Problems arise there will/must.
German
| Probleme | entstehen | (sagte | sie) | werden | dabei | sicher | nicht. |
| problems | arise | said | she | will.3PL | therewith | certainly | not |
'She said that problems will certainly not arise with that.'