Studies in Ovdalian Morphology and Syntax : New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language PDF
Edited by Bentzen Kristine Bentzen, Rosenkvist Henrik Rosenkvist, Johannessen Janne Bondi Johannessen
Part of the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series
Description
Ovdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers.
Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention.
However, Ovdalian 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 Ovdalian morphology and syntax.
The papers, all based on extensive fieldwork, cover topics such as verb movement, subject doubling, wh-words and case in Ovdalian.
Constituting the first comprehensive linguistic description of Ovdalian 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.
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- Pages:237 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:22/01/2015
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:237 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:22/01/2015
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- ISBN:9789027269133
