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- Andersson Lilja, Peter
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The fast case. Constructionalization of a Swedish concessive
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - : Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 37:2, s. 141-167
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of grammatical markers has been described from several theoretical perspectives over the last decade: Grammaticalization Theory (Hopper & Traugott 2003, Heine, Claudi & Hunnemeyer (1991), the Minimalist Program (Roberts & Roussou 2003, van Gelderen 2004), and Lexical-Functional Grammar (Vincent 2001), see also the overview in (Borjars & Vincent 2010). It has recently been addressed in Construction Grammar, where it is argued that a shift towards a constructional perspective on change may yield new insights into the workings of grammaticalization (Bergs & Diewald 2008, Hoffmann & Trousdale 2013, Traugott & Trousdale 2013). This paper should be taken as a contribution to a constructional view on grammaticalization. It is about the rise of the concessive subordinator fast(än) in the history of Swedish occurring in a construction or clause type called UNIVERSAL CONCESSIVE CONDITIONAL (Haspelmath & Köning 1998), in Swedish GENERALISERANDE BISATS (SAG 1999). The Swedish fast , etymologically (and still productively) as an adjective in the meaning ‘steady’, ‘robust’ is used as an intensifier,‘very’, ‘much’, in early Modern Swedish, eventually established as a concessive marker ‘even if’, ‘although’ in the 18th century. The conventionalization of a concessive inference is highly interesting and may be traced back to specific constructions in the 16th and 17th centuries. On the basis of an extensive corpus study, I analyze the critical contexts and discuss the development as constructional change rather than lexical change, arguing that a remapping between form and function takes place in concessive conditional constructions due to processes of inferencing and mismatch.
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- Andersson, Peter, 1974
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The fast case. Constructionalization of a Swedish concessive
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 37:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of grammatical markers has been described from several theoretical perspectives over the last decade: Grammaticalization Theory (Hopper & Traugott 2003, Heine, Claudi & Hunnemeyer (1991), the Minimalist Program (Roberts & Roussou 2003, van Gelderen 2004), and Lexical-Functional Grammar (Vincent 2001), see also the overview in (Borjars & Vincent 2010). It has recently been addressed in Construction Grammar, where it is argued that a shift towards a constructional perspective on change may yield new insights into the workings of grammaticalization (Bergs & Diewald 2008, Hoffmann & Trousdale 2013, Traugott & Trousdale 2013). This paper should be taken as a contribution to a constructional view on grammaticalization. It is about the rise of the concessive subordinator fast(än) in the history of Swedish occurring in a construction or clause type called UNIVERSAL CONCESSIVE CONDITIONAL (Haspelmath & Köning 1998), in Swedish GENERALISERANDE BISATS (SAG 1999). The Swedish fast , etymologically (and still productively) as an adjective in the meaning ‘steady’, ‘robust’ is used as an intensifier,‘very’, ‘much’, in early Modern Swedish, eventually established as a concessive marker ‘even if’, ‘although’ in the 18th century. The conventionalization of a concessive inference is highly interesting and may be traced back to specific constructions in the 16th and 17th centuries. On the basis of an extensive corpus study, I analyze the critical contexts and discuss the development as constructional change rather than lexical change, arguing that a remapping between form and function takes place in concessive conditional constructions due to processes of inferencing and mismatch.
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- Andréasson, Maia, 1960
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Object shift in Scandinavian languages: The impact of contrasted elements
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 36:2, s. 187-217
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues for a unified analysis of mainland Scandinavian pronominal object shift and Icelandic full NP shift. Building on data showing the impact of accessibility on object placement in Swedish, Danish and Icelandic, I propose an Optimality Theoretic analysis where semantic/pragmatic constraints involving accessibility, information structure and contrast interact, but are ranked lower than syntactic constraints on, for example, verb placement. Finally, the impact of prosody on pronominal object shift is discussed.
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- Ask, Sofia, 1969-
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"She had it coming?" : An experimental study of text interpretation in a police classroom setting
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 41:2, s. 133-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate how modifications of reporting verbs, modality, style and use of quotation marks in an authentic police report can lead to different interpretations by two groups of trainee police officers. Data was collected through an experiment in a classroom setting, where police trainees discussed two versions of the same police report in focus group discussions. The trainees' statements were categorised into three themes: impression of the victim, impression of the accused, and assessment of the situation's severity. The results show that modifications such as formal or informal choice of words and the use of scare quotes proved to be influential linguistic modifications. In contrast, variation of reporting verbs and modality appeared less significant. The two versions of the text created different impressions of both the victim and the accused, and the interpretations of the severity of the situation depicted in the text varied between the two trainee groups. This highlights the importance of further study of the linguistic constructions of victims and perpetrators in police texts, in order to ensure credibility and equality before the law.
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- Bentzen, Kristine, et al.
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Object shift in spoken mainland Scandinavian : a corpus study of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 36:2, Special Issue, s. 115-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent work on Object Shift (OS) suggests that this is not as uniform an operation as traditionally assumed. In this paper, we examine OS in the spontaneous speech of adults in large Danish, Norwegian and Swedish child language corpora in order to explore variation with respect to OS across these three languages. We evaluate our results against three recent strands of accounts of OS, namely a prosodic/phonological account, an account in terms of cognitiv status, and an account in terms of information structure. Our investigation shows that there is both withing-language and across-language variation in the application of OS, and that the three accounts can explain some of our data. However, all accounts are faced with challenges, especially when explaining exceptional cases.
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- Blomberg, Frida, et al.
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Swedish and English word ratings of imageability, familiarity and age of acquisition are highly correlated
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 38:3, s. 351-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At present, there is no comprehensive psycholinguistic database containing Swedish words with ratings of word properties such as e.g. imageability, although researchers carrying out psycholinguistic studies in Swedish face the need to be able to control for and systematically vary such properties. The present study addressed this issue by investigating the possibility of transferring English word ratings to Swedish. Imageability, familiarity and age of acquisition (AoA) ratings were obtained for a sample of Swedish words (N = 99). These ratings were then compared with the corresponding English ratings from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Psycholinguistic Database (Coltheart 1981) using Spearman correlation. Swedish and English word ratings were found to be highly correlated for imageability and AoA, and moderately correlated for familiarity. Following these results, we suggest that, in general, ratings of these variables can be reliably transferred between the two languages, although some caution should be taken, since for some individual words, some ratings might differ substantially for their Swedish and English translations.
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- Bohnacker, Ute, 1969-
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The clause-initial position in L2 Swedish declaratives : word order variation and discourse pragmatics
- 2010
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - 0332-5865 .- 1502-4717. ; 33:2, s. 105-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a recent study of the clause-initial position in verb-second declaratives (the prefield), Bohnacker & Rosén (2008) found significant differences between native Swedish and German concerning the frequencies with which constituents occurred in the prefield, as well as qualitative differences concerning the mapping of information structure and linear word order: Swedish exhibited a stronger tendency than German to place new information, the so-called rheme, later in the clause. Swedish-speaking learners of German transferred these patterns from their L1 to German. Their sentences were syntactically well-formed but had Swedish-style prefield frequencies and a strong pattern of Rheme Later, which native Germans perceive as unidiomatic, as an acceptability judgment and a rewrite-L2texts task showed. The present study extends Bohnacker & Rosén's work in three ways. Learners of the reverse language combination (L1 German, L2 Swedish) are investigated to see whether similar phenomena also manifest themselves there. Secondly, written and oral data from highly advanced learners are examined to see whether the learners’ persistent problems can be overcome by extensive immersion (3, 6 and 9 years of L2 exposure). Thirdly, besides investigating theme–rheme (old vs. new information), some consideration is given to another information-structural level, background vs. focus. The learners are found to overuse the prefield at first, with non-Swedish, German-style frequency patterns (e.g. low proportions of clause-initial expletives and high proportions of clause-initial rhematic elements). This is interpreted as evidence for L1 transfer of information-structural or discourse-pragmatic preferences. After 6 and 9 years, a substantial increase in clause-initial expletive subjects, clefts and lightweight given elements is indicative of development towards the target. The findings are related to current generative theorizing on the syntax-pragmatics interface, where it is often maintained that the integration of multiple types of information is one of the hardest areas for L2 learners to master.
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