På väg mot en förståelse av fenomenet inkongruent predikativ : ett försök att beskriva och förklara fenomenet samt skildra dess forskningshistoria / Sandy Åkerblom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Åkerblom, Sandy, author.

Series:

Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A ; 82.

Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 0347-8971 ; 82

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Scandinavian languages--Agreement.

Scandinavian languages.

Scandinavian languages--Topic and comment.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lund : Lund University, 2020.

Language Note:

Text in Swedish, summary in English.

Summary:

This thesis examines so-called pancake sentences, an agreement anomaly found in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. In these languages, predicative adjectives typically agree with their subjects in number and grammatical gender. However, with certain subjects the predicative takes a t-form, corresponding to singular neuter, regardless of the number and gender of the subject. Such sentences are commonly referred to as pancake sentences. The construction in question has been studied since the early 20th century and a great number of analyzes of the phenomenon has been presented. The general aim of this thesis is to generate further understanding of the phenomenon by approaching it from three angles: 1) To scrutinize the research history, with respect to how the phenomenon has been described and explained, and with respect to which background assumptions and ideals the analyzes are grounded in, 2) To describe the phenomenon, firstly by extracting well-founded assumptions and observations from the research history, and secondly by carrying out further empirical studies to complete the picture, 3) To explain the well-known tendency that the disagreeing form occurs with bare subjects, but not with definite ones.

Notes:

Doctorol dissertation Lund University, Sweden, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218).

ISBN:

9789189213296

9189213297

OCLC:

1248723632