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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Ett lexikografiskt 100-årsjubileum
- 2004
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Ingår i: LMS-Lingua. - 0023-6330. ; 2004:5, s. 31-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artikeln beskriver tillkomsten av den första svensk-engelska skolordboken (1904) samt dess viktigaste föregångare och efterföljare.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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EVERY 3 in OED: A grammatically neglected determiner (or two)
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures. - 1654-6970. ; 15:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is not unusual for grammar books to treat the determiner every as having one function only, viz. that of more or less parallelling each, disregarding cases such as There is every reason and I wish you every happiness. The present article is an attempt to redress the balance by critically assessing presentations in some of the major grammar books and in the canonical set of five dictionaries for learners. The end result is a tentative description of three different uses of every, EVERYeach, EVERYpossible and EVERYcomplete.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Existential there and catenative concord. Evidence from the British National Corpus
- 2011
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). - 1654-6970. ; 10:1, s. 29-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On the basis of a 100-million word corpus of British English, the article demonstrates that it is fairly common in the production of native speakers to use the singular form "seems" after "existential there" even when the notional subject is a plural, more so in spoken than in written production. The near-synonym "appear" as a catenative verb shows the same tendency, though less strongly. The results raise pedagogical questions as to the assessment of the performance of learners in the area in question.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Factual fumbles. Some examples of encyclopaedic shortcomings in English dictionaries for learners.
- 2013
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Ingår i: Language, football and all that jazz : a festschrift for Sölve Ohlander/ Gunnar Bergh, Rhonwen Bowen & Mats Mobärg (eds.). - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789173467582
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article identifies and discusses three cases of inadequate or factually wrong definitions in dictionaries of English for learners. It deplores the fact that factual errors tend to live on through allegedly revised editions, even in cases where the wording has been retouched.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Framtid i förändring. Hur länge kommer att dröja sig kvar?
- 2008
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165. ; 18, s. 143-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Swedish there is no inflectional verb form to indicate future time. To some extent the present tense can be used, but two constructions use auxiliaries. The main forms are traditionally given as skall and kommer att, with the latter cited as having the infinitive marker att of the main verb linked to it, much like the tradition for ought to in English grammar. Bona fide modal auxiliaries in Swedish take an infinitive without the infinitive marker att, and kommer has been developing in that direction for the last few decades. Standard grammars and usage guides still tend to regard the use of kommer plus a bare infinitive as only marginally acceptable. The present article discusses the position today of kommer on a kline where the extremes are the full main verb and the bona fide auxiliary. Corpora of newspaper texts show that the dropping of att after kommer occurred marginally in the period from the 1960s through the 1990s, with strong acceleration starting around 2000. A recent experiment in which Swedish university students translated two sentences from English into Swedish, demonstrated two things very clearly: (1) The dropping of att after kommer is characteristic of young speakers and very much age-related; (2) The dropping of att increases for all age-groups when there is a distance (created by interposed words) between kommer and the infinitive of the main verb. A report in English on the experiment has been e-published in Nordic Journal of English Studies 6:1. Keywords: auxiliary, corpus, grammaticalization, informant, language change, Swedish, tense.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Frequency matters
- 1996
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 90:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This brief note is intended as a word of warning concerning the interpretation of indications of word frequencies in the COBUILD dictionary. "Word" in that frequency count stands for "string of letters", with no regard for meaning or pronunciation.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Från kryddad gris till plågoris. Om hur SPAM blev spam
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nog ORDAT? Festskrift till Sven-Göran Malmgren den 25 april 2008.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article discusses how the trademark SPAM may have developed into the common noun "spam". The commonly accepted Monty Python background is questioned.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Galna kor och varma korvar. Om strukturer i flerledade sammansättningar
- 1997
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Ingår i: Språkvård. - 0038-8440. ; 1997:1, s. 26-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article discusses the ambiguity of compounds and phrases with three or more constituents, including problems concerning writing conventions such as hyphenation in such structures.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Genusaspekter på kommer utan att
- 2009
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Ingår i: Svenskläraren. - 0346-2412. ; 2009:4, s. 26-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- On the basis of a survey among Swedish students it is concluded that the grammaticalization of "kommer" as an indicator of future time goes faster among young men than among young women, at least in the category of students (high achievers) participating in the elicitation experiment.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Givet att det rör sig om engelska
- 2020
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Ingår i: Språktidningen. - 1654-5028. ; 2020:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A fairly brief note to challenge the claim made in the journal that the construction "givet att" has developed independently and internally in Swedish. The note demonstrates that it is rather a copy of the English construction "given that", which has a much longer history.
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