The Diachrony Of Ditransitives In Late Modern Swedish
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Author | : Fredrik Valdeson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2024-06-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900468641X |
Download The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years. The key finding is that the use of the so-called double object construction has decreased dramatically in terms of frequency, lexical richness and semantic range. This development is parallelled by a decisive increase in prepositional object constructions. The results are of high relevance to the ongoing debate within construction grammar on constructional productivity and on the nature of horizontal links.
Author | : Eva Zehentner |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027249717 |
Download Ditransitives in Germanic Languages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.
Author | : Ida Larsson |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2022-03-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3961103259 |
Download Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume explores morphosyntactic change in the Late Modern Swedish period from the 18th century and onwards. This period is interesting, for a number of reasons. This is when Swedish is established as a national standard language. New genres emerge, and the written language becomes more generally available to all speakers. We also sometimes find diverging developments in the different North Germanic languages, and some of the much-discussed differences between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are established during this period. In addition, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the traditional dialects undergo more dramatic changes than ever. Yet, the Late Modern Swedish period has previously received fairly little attention in the syntactic literature. This volume aims to remedy this, with studies that cover several different grammatical domains, including case and verbal syntax, word order and agreement, and grammaticalization in the nominal domain. The study by Cecilia Falk investigates the possibility of promoting an indirect object to subject in a passive, that emerges during the period. A chapter by Fredrik Valdeson studies change in the use of ditransitive verbs, from a constructional perspective. Three chapters are concerned with word order change. The study by Ida Larsson and Björn Lundquist investigates the development of a strict word order in particle constructions. Adrian Sangfelt studies the possibility of having adverbials (and other constituents) between the separate verbal heads in complex VPs in the final stages of the shift from OV to VO order. Erik M. Petzell investigates embedded verb placement and agreement morphology in the Viskadalian dialect, which on the surface seems to contradict the Rich Agreement Hypothesis. Mikael Kalm discusses the emergence of different kinds of adverbial infinitival clauses in the standard written language compared to Övdalian. Finally, the study by Lars-Olof Delsing is concerned with a case of grammaticalization in the nominal domain, specifically the development of the gradable adjectives mycket ‘much’ and lite ‘little’ into quantifiers.
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Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Author | : Merja Kytö |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316472914 |
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English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.
Author | : Jan Terje Faarlund |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019255008X |
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This 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 | : Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004507051 |
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How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
Author | : Ida Larsson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Swedish language |
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Author | : Rose-Marie Dechaine |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-02-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1118101596 |
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Author | : Holger Diessel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
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ISBN | : 1108498817 |
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