The syntax of mainland Scandinavian / Jan Terje Faarlund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943- author.

Series:

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandinavian languages--Syntax.

Scandinavian languages.

Physical Description:

xii, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. The continuum of mutually intelligible standard languages, regional varieties, and dialects stretching from southern Jutland to eastern Finland share many syntactic patterns and features, but also present interesting syntactic differences. In this volume, Jan Terje Faarlund discusses the main syntactic features of the national languages, alongside the most widespread or typologically interesting features of the non-standard varieties. Each topic is illustrated with examples drawn from reference grammars, research literature, corpora of various sorts, and the author's own research. The0framework is current generative grammar, but the volume is descriptive in nature, with technical formalities and theoretical discussion kept to a minimum. It will hence be a valuable reference for students and researchers working on any Scandinavian language, as well as for syntacticians and typologists interested in Scandinavian facts and data without necessarily being able to read Scandinavian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943- Syntax of mainland Scandinavian.

ISBN:

0198817916

9780198817918

OCLC:

1049599188