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Author: Terje Wagener
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-05-22
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 3110492954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives an analysis of relative clauses as they evolve throughout the history of (Mainland) Scandinavian, from Ancient Nordic to Early Modern Norwegian.
Author: Terje Wagener
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-05-22
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 3110496534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives an analysis of relative clauses as they evolve throughout the history of (Mainland) Scandinavian, from Ancient Nordic to Early Modern Norwegian.
Author: Jan Terje Faarlund
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 019255008X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. The continuum of mutually intelligible standard languages, regional varieties, and dialects stretching from southern Jutland to eastern Finland share many syntactic patterns and features, but also present interesting syntactic differences. In this volume, Jan Terje Faarlund discusses the main syntactic features of the national languages, alongside the most widespread or typologically interesting features of the non-standard varieties. Each topic is illustrated with examples drawn from reference grammars, research literature, corpora of various sorts, and the author's own research. The framework is current generative grammar, but the volume is descriptive in nature, with technical formalities and theoretical discussion kept to a minimum. It will hence be a valuable reference for students and researchers working on any Scandinavian language, as well as for syntacticians and typologists interested in Scandinavian facts and data without necessarily being able to read Scandinavian.
Author: Kristin Bech
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-02-19
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 3985540969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and the syntactic diversity they display. The fact that these languages are relatively well attested and documented allows for individual cases studies as well as comparative studies. Due to their well-observable common ancestry at the time of their earliest attestations, they moreover permit close-up comparative investigations into closely related languages. Besides the purely empirical aspects, the volume also explores the methodological side of diagnosing, classifying and documenting the details of syntactic diversity. The volume starts with a description by Alexander Pfaff and Gerlouf Bouma of the principles underlying the Noun Phrases in Early Germanic Languages (NPEGL) database, before Alexander Pfaff presents the Patternization method for measuring syntactic diversity. Kristin Bech, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, and George Walkden carry out a pilot study of noun phrase variation in Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. Kristin Bech then considers the development of Old English noun phrases with quantifiers meaning ‘many’. Alexandra Rehn’s study is concerned with the inflection of stacked adjectives in Old High German and Alemannic. Old High German is also the topic of Svetlana Petrova’s study, which looks at inflectional patterns of attributive adjectives. With Hannah Booth’s contribution we move to Old Icelandic and the use of the proprial article as a topic management device. Juliane Tiemann investigates adjective position in Old Norwegian. Alexander Pfaff and George Walkden then take a broader view of adjectival articles in early Germanic, before Alexander Pfaff rounds off the volume with a study of a peculiar class of adjectives, the so-called positional predicates, which occur across the early Germanic languages.
Author: Höskuldur Thráinsson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9027265593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the latest research on the syntax of the “Insular Scandinavian” languages (Faroese and Icelandic), with contributions from thirteen experts, and a significant introductory chapter by the four editors. The topics covered include some that have figured extensively in recent literature on Scandinavian syntax and its implications for syntactic theory: case, agreement, embedded clause word order, stylistic fronting, and the nature of “expletive” constructions. The volume is conceived around the topic of variation, both within and between the two languages studied—as well as more generally—and stands out for the wealth of new empirical detail from both Faroese and Icelandic, relating to each of the topics and theoretical issues discussed. Each chapter is written in a way to make it accessible to a wide audience within linguistics; the book will be essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in the syntax of the Germanic languages.
Author: Julian Meldon D'Arcy
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes 36 papers by an international selection of scholars which were presented at the 5th Nordic Conference for English Studies, held in Reykjavik August 7-8, 1992. Topics covered include linguistics, English as a foreign language, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, English literature and Canadian literature.
Author: John D. Sundquist
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 814
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jørgen Gimbel
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings from the 5th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism: "Two Languages and Two Cultures in Education". This volume contains: -- plenary lectures, addresses, discussions -- papers with education as their main perspective. Two volumes of the Copenhagen Studies in Bilingualism, published by Multilingual Matters, contain further papers from the Conference: one volume covers Bilingualism and the Individual, the other volume Bilingualism in Society and School.
