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Dear LINGTYP readers,<br>
<br>
<a href="http://langsci-press.org">Language Science Press</a>
announces a new free book in the series "Studies in Diversity
Linguistics":<br>
<br>
Östen Dahl<br>
2015<br>
Grammaticalization in the North: <span id="productTitle"
class="a-size-large">Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian
vernaculars<br>
279 pp.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/73">http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/73</a><br>
<br>
Like all LangSci books, this book is freely downloadable from the
LangSci website (PDF). A hard copy is available from Amazon (.com:
USD 25, .co.uk: GBP 20, .de: €26.75)<br>
<br>
Language Science Press is a <a
href="http://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2014/04/15/three-scenarios-for-the-future-of-linguistics-publishing/">scholar-owned</a>
publisher supported by the DFG and the LangSci Community. Please
get in touch with me if you are interested in contributing to
LangSci Press or supporting it.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Martin Haspelmath<br>
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Synopsis:<br>
</span> This book looks at some phenomena within the grammar of the
noun phrase in a group of traditional North Germanic varieties
mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland, usually seen as Swedish
dialects, although the differences between them and Standard Swedish
are often larger than between the latter and the other standard
Mainland Scandinavian languages. In addition to being conservative
in many respects – e.g. in preserving nominal cases and subject-verb
agreement – these varieties also display many innovative features.
These include extended uses of definite articles, incorporation of
attributive adjectives, and a variety of possessive constructions.
Although considerable attention has been given to these phenomena in
earlier literature, this book is the first to put them in the
perspective of typology and grammaticalization processes. It also
looks for a plausible account of the historical origin of the
changes involved, arguing that many of them spread from central
Sweden, where they were later reverted due to the influence from
prestige varieties coming from southern Scandinavia. <br>
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Martin Haspelmath <br>
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History <br>
Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a><br>
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