Jan Terje Faarlund ( Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Linguistics

The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers a continuum of mutually intelligible languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. It is descriptive in nature, with examples drawn from reference grammars, research literature, corpora of various sorts, and the author's own research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198817918
• ISBN-10: 0198817916
• Artikelnr.: 54675797

Autorenporträt

Jan Terje Faarlund is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo, having previously held positions at the Universities of Trondheim and Chicago. His main fields of research are the North Germanic languages, syntactic theory, diachronic syntax, and Mesoamerican languages. He is the author of A Grammar of Chiapas Zoque (OUP, 2012) and The Syntax of Old Norse (OUP, 2004), and is the recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Nominals
3: The adjective phrase
4: The prepositional phrase
5: The verb phrase
6: The finite clause
7: The independent sentence
8: Subordinate clauses
9: Anaphor binding
10: Coordination and ellipsis