Variation in Nominal Possessive Expressions : Case Studies from Danish and Swedish / Alicja Piotrowska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piotrowska, Alicja, author.

Series:

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 22.

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 22

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danish language--Possessives--Case studies.

Danish language.

Danish language--Variation--Case studies.

Swedish language--Possessives--Case studies.

Swedish language.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Case Studies from Danish and Swedish

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an account of the variation between two possessive constructions in Danish and Swedish: the s-genitive (husets tak ‘the house’s roof’), and the prepositional construction (taket på huset ‘the roof of the house’). Present-day corpus data, as well as historical data (texts from 1250–1550) are explored. Through statistical and qualitative analysis, various factors that influence the choice between the two constructions are identified. The book offers new data on the genitive variation in Danish and Swedish. The approach is also novel as two closely related Scandinavian languages are compared from both a historical and a contemporary perspective.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004682184

900468218X

Publisher Number:

110.1163/9789004682184 DOI