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58 Controlling for Movement: Reply to Wood 2012∗ Dennis Ott Humboldt University of Berlin Abstract In a recent squib, Wood 2012 provides an argument against the Movement Theory of Con- trol, which treats Control as A-movement, similar to Raising. His argument is based on Control configurations in Icelandic object-extraposition constructions for which no move- ment derivation can be plausibly assum
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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
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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Scandinavian Relative Clause Extractions Apparent restrictions ∗ Fredrik Heinat & Anna-Lena Wiklund Linnaeus University & Lund University Abstract This brief article investigates the restrictions on Mainland Scandinavian relative clause extraction that have figured in the literature on island constraints. The con- clusion is that none of these restrictions can be regarded as constraints on relativ
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56 Mapping Teacher Beliefs and Practices About Multilingualism: The Development of the MultiBAP Questionnaire Pia Sundqvist, Henrik Gyllstad, Marie Källkvist and Erica Sandlund Introduction and Aims While language-diverse English classrooms are under-researched in Sweden (Källkvist et al., 2017), teachers are gaining firsthand experience through teaching language-diverse student groups, thus gaini
WPSS.final2.jonsson.2024 Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 111 (2024), 71–87 Ditransitive passives in Faroese and the role of case Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson University of Iceland Abstract Passives of ditransitive verbs in Faroese have been widely discussed in the literature (see Barnes 1986, Henriksen 2000:69, Eyþórsson 2012, Thráinsson et al. 2012:269–273, Galbraith 2018 and Petersen 2020:223–22
Kristinardottir-Jonsson Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 107 (2022), 32–46. Prepositional vs. indirect objects in Icelandic Iðunn Kristínardóttir & Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson University of Iceland Abstract A corpus study of the Prepositional Object Construction (POC) in Icelandic shows that the POC is basically restricted to ditransitive verbs encoding motion or entailing successful transfer (Kri
A binary system of complementizers Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 90 (2012) 1-21 A binary system of complementizers in Cimbrian relative clauses Ermenegildo Bidese* – Andrea Padovan # – Alessandra Tomaselli # University of Trento / MIT* – University of Verona # Abstract The system of Cimbrian relative clauses manifests itself in a complex scenario: two different complementizers occur in thi
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Sigurdsson Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 101 (2018), x-xx. Icelandic declarative V1: a brief overview. Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson Lund University Abstract This squib is a brief state of the art overview of declarative V1 in Icelandic, old and modern. Three (relevant) types of such clauses are discussed: Narrative Inversion, with an overt topical subject directly after the verb, Presentati
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Mayumi Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 93 (2014) 102-136 Scandinavian Verb Particle Constructions and the Intonational Properties∗ Mayumi Hosono, Leiden University Abstract In this paper, I discuss Scandinavian verb particle constructions from the perspective of the intonational properties of the Scandinavian languages. I show with experimental data that the final pitch peak occurs on the ma
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Wpss88 WORKING PAPERS IN SCANDINAVIAN SYNTAX 88 Henrik Rosenkvist Verb raising and referential null subjects in Övdalian 1–20 Kari Kinn Overt non-referential subjects and subject-verb agreement in Middle Norwegian 21–50 Mayumi Hosono Verb movement as tense operator movement 51–80 Jim Wood & Einar Frey Sigur!sson Icelandic verbal agreement pronoun antecedent relations 81–130 Eva Klingvall On non-co
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Callegari & Angantýsson_version 3_18th_dec Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 109 (2023), 41–62 Non-subject initial clauses and the left periphery in Icelandic: A distributional approach Elena Callegari & Ásgrímur Angantýsson University of Iceland Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of preverbal constituent placement in Icelandic V2 sentences, with a focus on the frequency and
In their 2001 paper Bloom & Kiel make a distinction between what would be concerned as a rewarding notion of linguistic influence and one that is, according to the authors, close to trivial The possibility of linguistic influence on thought Jordan Zlatev and Johan Blomberg Department of Cognitive Semiotics Lund University Abstract In this chapter, we address four obstacles that stand in the way fo
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Gunlög Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 93 (2014), 26–50 Pseudocoordination in Swedish with gå ‘go’ and the “surprise effect”* Gunlög Josefsson Lund University Abstract. Pseudocoordination is a construction where two verbs or VPs appear to be conjoined by what looks like the conjunction och ‘and’. In my paper I focus on pseudocoordination with gå ‘walk, go’ as Verb 1, in particular cases wher
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Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 105, 2021, 18–44 Icelandic Case Syncretism and the Syntax-Morphology Interface Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and Jim Wood The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and Yale University Abstract In this paper, we provide an initial overview of an understudied area of Icelandic morphosyntax, namely the effect of case syncretism of the acceptability of a variety
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Semiosis beyond signsTP Semiosis beyond Signs. On a Two or Three Missing Links on the Way to Human Beings Göran Sonesson, Dept. of semiotics/Centre for cognitive semiotics, Lund University Goran.sonesson@semiotik.lu.se Abstract: Human beings are special in mastering, apart from sign, a number of semiotic resources embedded already in perception, which is not differentiated, but which may still be
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Case assignment and the linear order of coordinated verbs* Jim Wood Yale University Einar Freyr Sigurðsson The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Oddur Snorrason Queen Mary University of London Abstract In this paper, we draw on corpus data to show that in Icelandic, verbs that assign distinct cases can be coordinated and share a single object: the verb on the right determines the case
From a Sensorimotor to a Sensorimotor++ Account of Embodied Conceptual Cognition Joel Parthemore Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, University of Lund, Sweden joel.parthemore@semiotik.lu.se Abstract. Since the publication of O'Regan and Noë's original article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2001, which rst set out the senso- rimotor account by which sensory experience and motor engagement are ine
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On past participles and their external arguments Eva Klingvall, Lund University Abstract Swedish makes a morphological distinction between participles used in per- fect contexts, perfect participles, and participles used in passive contexts, past participles. In most contexts, the former appear with the external argument as a subject DP, while the latter realize the external argument as an adjunct
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WPSS_Forgotten factors in the development of dependent clauses in Swedish as a second language_definitive Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 95 (2015), 33–43 Forgotten Factors in the Development of Dependent Clauses in Swedish as a Second Language Martje Wijers Ghent University Abstract This paper is concerned with the acquisition of Swedish dependent clauses. In a longitudinal study of Belgian
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