Author: Katarina LundinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Small Clauses in Swedish
Author: Katarina LundinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Small Clauses
Author: Anna CardinalettiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 0585492204
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
These previously unpublished articles offer a cross-linguistic perspective on small clauses. They discuss subjects such as the different types of small clauses across languages and lexical items, the internal syntax of small clauses and their structure, and the general topic of the grammar of predication, ranging from a total questioning of the existence of small clauses to claims that they exist in every predication context. The editors' cross-linguistic approach addresses syntactic and lexical issues as well as the relationships between small clauses and language acquisition among children. It surveys the problems raised by small clauses in light of recent developments in the principles and parameter model. The data is drawn from Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish. The contributions share theoretical assumptions about small clauses. The cross-linguistic comparison offers the potential for defining variable and static elements of small clauses, as well as distinguishing ways that they resemble full clauses.
Small Clauses in Swedish
Author: Katarina Lundin ÅkessonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Subjectless Clauses in Swedish
Author: Cecilia FalkPublisher:
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Category : Swedish language
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Än Vad Som - a Note on Compararitive Clauses in Swedish
Author: The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian
Author: Jan Terje FaarlundPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019255008X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Än Vad Som
Author: Lars-Gunnar AnderssonBig Events, Small Clauses
Author: Cathrine Fabricius-HansenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311028586X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaboration across seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian, French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative small clauses (“absolutes”), participle constructions and related clause-like but non-finite adjuncts that increase descriptive granularity with respect to constitutive parts of the matrix event (elaboration in the narrowest sense), or describe eventualities that are co-located and connected with but not part of the matrix event. The book falls in two parts. Part I addresses central theoretical issues: How is the co-eventive interpretation of such adjuncts achieved? What is the internal syntax of participial and converb constructions? How do these constructions function at the discourse level, as compared to various finite structures that are available for co-eventive elaboration? Part II takes an empirical cross-linguistic perspective. It consists of five self-contained chapters that are based on parallel corpora and study either the use of a specific construction across at least two of the seven object languages, or how a specific construction is rendered in other languages.
Än Vad Som
Author: Lars-Gunnar AnderssonCopular Clauses
Author: Line MikkelsenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027294135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses — one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit — but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.