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Standard German45bfronting1
Upper Sorbian45bfronting1NA

(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.

b) Contrasted verb and subject

Prompt: Certainly, there will/must arise a good opportunity for profit when temperatures rise!

*No! Catastrophes happen will/must there often in such a case.

German

Ein Unglück geschehen wird in so einem Fall öfter.

a catastrophe happen will in such a case occasionally

'A catastrophe will occasionally occur in such a case.'