Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax : New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language / ed. by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist, Janne Bondi Johannessen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angantýsson, Ásgrímur, Contributor.

Bentzen, Kristine, Contributor.

Bentzen, Kristine, Editor.

Garbacz, Piotr, Contributor.

Johannessen, Janne Bondi, Contributor.

Johannessen, Janne Bondi, Editor.

Rosenkvist, Henrik, Contributor.

Rosenkvist, Henrik, Editor.

Steensland, Lars, Contributor.

Svenonius, Peter, Contributor.

Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander, Contributor.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; 221

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish language--Dialects--Morphology.

Swedish language.

Swedish language--Dialects--Syntax.

Swedish language--Dialects--Sweden--Älvdalen.

Swedish language--Dialects--Sweden--lvdalen.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (v, 232 pp. p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative isolation for about 1000 years, a number of interesting linguistic archaisms have been preserved and innovations have developed. This volume provides seven papers about Övdalian morphology and syntax. The papers, all based on extensive fieldwork, cover topics such as verb movement, subject doubling, wh-words and case in Övdalian. Constituting the first comprehensive linguistic description of Övdalian in English, this volume is of interest for linguists in the fields of Scandinavian and Germanic linguistics, and also historical linguists will be thrilled by some of the presented data. The data and the analyses presented here furthermore challenge our view of the morphosyntax of the Scandinavian languages in some cases – as could be expected when a new language enters the linguistic arena.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Övdalian from 1909 to 2009

On the morpho-syntax of verb/adverb placement and fronting in embedded clauses in Modern Övdalian

Optional V-to-I movement in Övdalian

The syntax and meaning of subject doubling in Övdalian

The polyfunctionality of which in Övdalian

Is there a vocative case in the Övdalian language?

The morphological expression of case in Övdalian

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

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