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 ...

Most of this chapter will deal with the preproprial article, which is far more common in the Nordic languages than its postproprial counterpart. However, we will also briefly touch upon the latter, since this is also ...

[...] Omission of finite HAVE has no semantic effects, and examples without auxiliary can be interpreted either as present or as past perfects depending on context. Possessive HAVE is never omitted, and no other auxiliaries ...

Imperative clauses in the Nordic languages typically display V1 word order. The referential subject is normally absent, with the exception of Icelandic , where it is normally overt ( Einarsson 1967:159 , Thráinsson 2007:6 ...

The paper deals with the assumed correlation between morphological and syntactic phenomena, especially the one that has its roots in a parametric approach to syntax since (Chomsky 1981). Its main focus is on testing ...

The study looks at 4 variants of negative clitics in Norwegian, how frequently they are used and which types of verbs they combine with. Using corpora of spoken Norwegian, we look at how diffierent variants of the negative ...