Constructional Approaches To Nordic Languages

Author : Evie Coussé,Steffen Höder,Benjamin Lyngfelt,Julia Prentice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249302

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Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages by Evie Coussé,Steffen Höder,Benjamin Lyngfelt,Julia Prentice Pdf

This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic languages by dealing with a variety of topics, such as the constructional network, pseudo-coordination, additional language learning and emerging multilingualism, prototypical semantics in argument structure constructions, and domain-specific discourse and language behavior. The volume showcases the vibrant research activity within part of the construction grammar community dealing with Nordic languages, contributing to the knowledge about the structure, use and learning of these languages, as well as to the field of construction grammar as a whole.

Author : Hreinn Benediktsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : UCSC:32106001565040

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The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics by Hreinn Benediktsson Pdf

Papers covering four main areas of nordic and general linguistics: history of nordic languages and principles of diachronic linguistics: Nordic dialects and structural dialectology: Nordic languages and current linguistic approaches: Nordic languages and modern linguistic theory.

Author : Oskar Bandle,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 311017149X

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The Nordic Languages by Oskar Bandle,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark Pdf

The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. Moreover it combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects, longitudinal sections with cross-sections (periods such as Old Norse, transition from Old Norse to Early Modern Nordic, Early Modern Nordic 1550-1800 and so on). The description of Nordic language history is built upon a comprehensive collection of linguistic data; it consists of more than 200 articles written by a multitude of authors from Scandinavian and German and English speaking countries. The organization of the book combines a central part on the detailed chronological developments and some chapters of a more general character: chapters on theory and methodology in the beginning and on overlapping spatio-temporal topics in the end.

Author : Kristine Bentzen,Henrik Rosenkvist,Janne Bondi Johannessen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269133

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Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax by Kristine Bentzen,Henrik Rosenkvist,Janne Bondi Johannessen Pdf

Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative isolation for about 1000 years, a number of interesting linguistic archaisms have been preserved and innovations have developed. This volume provides seven papers about Övdalian morphology and syntax. The papers, all based on extensive fieldwork, cover topics such as verb movement, subject doubling, wh-words and case in Övdalian. Constituting the first comprehensive linguistic description of Övdalian in English, this volume is of interest for linguists in the fields of Scandinavian and Germanic linguistics, and also historical linguists will be thrilled by some of the presented data. The data and the analyses presented here furthermore challenge our view of the morphosyntax of the Scandinavian languages in some cases – as could be expected when a new language enters the linguistic arena.

Author : John M. Weinstock
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015010230830

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The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics by John M. Weinstock Pdf

60 papers.

Author : Andrej Malchukov,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 885 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110338812

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Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia by Andrej Malchukov,Bernard Comrie Pdf

Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the world. The individual-language studies, each written by a specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters provide the background to the project and discuss its main characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an outside perspective on the volume’s approach. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.

Author : Nikolas Gisborne,Willem B. Hollmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269607

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Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics by Nikolas Gisborne,Willem B. Hollmann Pdf

Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical concepts have started to generate interest. There has also been an increase in several kinds of experimental work. However, not all linguistic data is simply naturally occurring or derived from experiments with statistically robust samples of speakers. Other traditions, especially the generative tradition, have fruitfully used introspection and questions about the grammaticality of different strings to uncover patterns which might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The divide between generative and cognitive approaches to language is intimately connected to the kinds of data drawn on, and the way in which generalisations are derived from these data. The papers in this volume explore these issues through the lens of synchronic linguistic analysis, the study of language change, typological investigation and experimental study. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 36:3 (2012).

Author : Lars S. Vikør
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language planning
ISBN : UOM:39015032479423

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The Nordic Languages by Lars S. Vikør Pdf

Author : Even Hovdhaugen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015053535269

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The History of Linguistics in the Nordic Countries by Even Hovdhaugen Pdf

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal,Na'ama Pat-El,Stephen Mark Carey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263513

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Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects by Jóhanna Barðdal,Na'ama Pat-El,Stephen Mark Carey Pdf

Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and South-Asian languages, respectively, and since then, oblique subjects have been reported for language after language throughout the world. This newfangled recognition of the concept of oblique subjects at the time was followed by discussions of the role and validity of subject tests, discussions of the verbal semantics involved, as well as discussions of the theoretical implications of this case marking strategy of syntactic subjects. This volume contributes to all these debates, making available research articles on different languages and language families, additionally highlighting issues like language contact, differential subject marking and the origin of oblique subjects.

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal,Shobhana L. Chelliah
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289926

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The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case by Jóhanna Barðdal,Shobhana L. Chelliah Pdf

The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.

Author : Oscar Bandle,Kurt Braunmüller,Ernst Hakon Jahr,Allan Karker,Hans-Peter Naumann,Ulf Telemann,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197068

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The Nordic Languages. Volume 2 by Oscar Bandle,Kurt Braunmüller,Ernst Hakon Jahr,Allan Karker,Hans-Peter Naumann,Ulf Telemann,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark Pdf

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Author : Einar Haugen,Thomas L Markey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110870664

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The Scandinavian Languages by Einar Haugen,Thomas L Markey Pdf

Author : M. Höglund,P. Rickman,J. Rudanko,J. Havu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137450067

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Perspectives on Complementation by M. Höglund,P. Rickman,J. Rudanko,J. Havu Pdf

This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading.

Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027204325

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Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar by Hans Christian Boas Pdf

The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.