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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Published by Brill 2015.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The Nordic languages differ with respect to word order in infinitives under causative lade ‘let’ (and cognates), in cases where the agent of the embedded verb is unspecified (see e.g. Taraldsen 1984, Platzack 1986a, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper investigates aspects of the noun phrase from a Scandinavian heritage language perspective, with an emphasis on noun phrase-internal gender agreement and noun declension. Our results are somewhat surprising ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
[...] 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 ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
All the Scandinavian languages have overt non-referential subjects in e.g. impersonal or existential constructions and with weather-verbs like rain. It is, however, well known that the properties of the non-referential ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
In many Nordic varieties, a perfect participle or supine form occurs in the complement of a verb which otherwise takes an infinitive, as in (1) below (see e.g. Thráinsson et al. 2004: 234–236).[1] This is typically only ...
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A conditional sentence consists of two parts: a condition and a consequent. The consequent is realized as a matrix clause, and the condition is realized as a subordinate clause (as part of the matrix consequent). In the ...
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Unlike English, the Nordic languages have non-finite forms of certain modal verbs (e.g. kunne/kunna ‘can inf.’), and these modals can be embedded under other modals, as in the Swedish example in (1) (see e.g. Thráinsson & ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Unlike English, the Mainland Scandinavian languages have a complementizer som in embedded questions with a subject gap; see the Swedish example in (1a) (and cf. Teleman et al. 1999/4: 555 ff.). This is sometimes referred ...