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Framsida ny WPSS WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX June 2015 Issue 94 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax is an electronic publication for current articles relating to the study of Scandinavian syntax. The articles appearing herein are previously unpublished reports of ongoing research activities and may subsequently appear, revised or unrevised, in other publications. The WPSS homepage: htt
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To appear in Daniel Dor, Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis (Eds.) The Social Originas of Language: Early Society, Communication and Polymodality Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language. Oxford University Press. 1 Niche construction and semiosis: biocultural and social dynamics. Chris Sinha Lund University Introduction: Paradox and problematic in human evolution The focus in this volume on the soci
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Topicalization: The IO/DO Asymmetry in Icelandic* Elena Callegari and Anton Karl Ingason University of Iceland Abstract In this paper, we investigate differences in the frequency of direct-object versus indirect-object topicalization (i.e. fronting with no accompanying pronom- inal resumption) in Icelandic using the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus. We find that the overall incidence of DO topic
The three-gender system in two varieties of Jämtlandic∗ Briana Van Epps, Lund University Abstract. This is a study on the gender system of the Swedish dialect spoken in Jämtland, a province in northern Sweden. The Jämtlandic dialect preserves to a large extent the three- gender system that was present in Old Swedish. The three-gender system manifests in anaphoric pronouns and as agreement in the n
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Dennis Wegner - The exceptional status of the Swedish supine * I am grateful to the audience of the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 23 (GLAC) in Austin, Texas in general and Ida Larsson in particular for valuable comments and discussion. Further thanks are due to Dominik Rotering for proofreading and Johan Brandtler for helpful suggestions and editorial comments. Working Papers in Scandinav
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Framsida WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 92 Elisabet Engdahl & Filippa Lindahl Preposed object pronouns in mainland Scandinavian 1–32 Katarina Lundin An unexpected gap with unexpected restrictions 33–57 Dennis Ott Controlling for movement: Reply to Wood (2012) 58–65 Halldór Ármann Sigur!sson About pronouns 65–98 June 2014 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax ISSN: 1100-097x Johan Brandtler
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Madsen & Persson (2012) Contagious yawning in puppies Contagious yawning in domestic dog puppies (Canis lupus familiaris): The effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on low-level imitation in dogs Elainie Alenkær Madsen* Tomas Persson*,∞ * Centre for Languages and Literature, Department of Semiotics, Lund University, Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden ∞ Department of Cognitive Science, Lund Universi
Sammanställning Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 87 (2011), 103-135. Fronting, Background, Focus A comparative study of Sardinian and Icelandic * Verner Egerland, Lund University Abstract There is a superficial similarity between fronting phenomena attested in Sardinian and Icelandic. Nevertheless, the two languages are radically different as for the pragmatic interpretation associated with f
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Vidarsson Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 99 (2017), 30–53 Grimm’s “floating” datives: Applicatives and NP/DP configurationality in Icelandic from a diachronic perspective Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson University of Iceland ‘Free’ dative benefactives, elements that do not clearly belong to the obligatory argument structure of the verb, have long been considered elusive by linguists, referre
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Framsida wpss WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 82 Elly van Gelderen & Terje Lohndal The position of adjectives and double definiteness 1–22 Terje Lohndal, Mari Nygård & Tor A. Åfarli The structure of copular clauses in Norwegian 23–42 !orbjörg Hróarsdóttir Verb particles in OV/VO word order in Older Icelandic 43–82 Johan Brandtler Why we should ever bother about wh-questions 83–102 Gunnar Hra
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LUNDS UNIVERSITET MAGISTERUPPSATS Sandy Åkerblom Genus – tilldelat eller inherent? * Sammandrag. Det huvudsakliga syftet är att pröva antagandet att svenskans genussytem är grundat på semantiska uppdelningar. Teorin utgår framför allt ifrån Greville Corbetts idéer om att alla genussystem har en semantisk kärna och dennes The Animacy Hierarchy och The Agreement Hierarchy står i fokus. Jag har under
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Sigurdardottir-Eythorsson Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 107 (2022), 47–82 The Emergence of Oblique Subjects: Oblique-Case Substitution and Shift in Anticausative Strategy in Modern Icelandic Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir Yale University Thórhallur Eythórsson University of Iceland Abstract Oblique subjects can emerge at any point in a language like Icelandic. We focus here on two such chang
Framsida Sthlm WPSS WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX June 2024 Issue 110 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax is an electronic publication for current articles relating to the study of Scandinavian syntax. The articles appearing herein are previously unpublished reports of ongoing research activities and may subsequently appear, revised or unrevised, in other publications. The WPSS homepage:
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Halldor 66 About pronouns* Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson Lund University Abstract This essay claims that pronouns are constructed as syntactic relations rather than as discrete feature bundles or items. The discussion is set within minimalist Context-linked Grammar, where phases contain silent but active edge features, edge linkers, including speaker and hearer features. An NP is phi-computed in relat
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Framsida Sthlm kopia WPSS WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX December 2018 Issue 101 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax is an electronic publication for current articles relating to the study of Scandinavian syntax. The articles appearing herein are previously unpublished reports of ongoing research activities and may subsequently appear, revised or unrevised, in other publications. The WPSS
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kanske-wpss-2012-aut-final.dvi Finiteness in Swedish∗ Fredrik Heinat, Stockholm University Abstract This paper investigates tenseless finite clauses in Swedish. In certain contexts the finite perfect auxiliary,ha ‘have’, is optional. These contexts are finite non-V2 clauses and V2 clauses in which the V2 position is filled by a modal adverb, for examplekanske‘maybe’. The analysis of these tenseles
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Already Egerland Jonas Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 97 (2016), 14–22 Enough already! On directive modal particles in English and Swedish1 Verner Egerland and Dianne Jonas Lund University and Goethe University Frankfurt Abstract In non-standard American English, an innovative usage of already has emerged as the result of a translation borrowing from Yiddish. In this usage, already appears
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La grammatica della narrazione: Swedish så and the narrative domain Verner Egerland Lund University Abstract The Swedish particle så is attested in different usages. In one of these, så introduces assertive clauses forming the foreground, or the skeleton, of a narrative. It is argued that, if the distribution of this particular particle is to be captured in a theory of syntax, such a theory needs
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1 Icelandic let-causatives and case1 Jim Wood2 Abstract The verb láta ‘let/make’ in Icelandic provides a unique opportunity to understand the behavior of symmetric versus asymmetric DAT-NOM constructions. In this paper, I take a close look at láta and examine a set of cases where DAT-NOM verbs are embedded under láta, resulting in the otherwise nominative object becoming accusative in some cases a
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Negation on the Move: The Pragmatics of Negative Preposing in Icelandic * Elena Callegari Ásgrímur Angantýsson University of Iceland Abstract This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic constraints on Negative Preposing (NP) in Ice- landic, with a focus on the preposing of negation in finite clauses with an overt subject. While negation in Icelandic typically appears post-verbally, we show tha
