19.2989, Books: General Ling/Morphology/Phonology/Syntax: Herslund

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Title: Danish 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 382  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: Michael Herslund

Paperback: ISBN: 3895863963  Pages: 128 Price: Europe EURO 49.40


Abstract:

Note: This is the second printing of a previously announced book.

Danish, a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, is spoken by about 5.5
million people in Denmark and by minorities in Schleswig (Northern
Germany). It is also used as a second language in Greenland and the Faroe
Islands. In its phonology, Danish is like the other Scandinavian languages
a two accent language, the two word tones of Swedish and Norwegian
correspond to presence and absence of a glottal catch (the so called stød).
A rather simple consonantal system is supplemented by an extraordinary rich
array of vowels. The morphology is like that of the other Scandinavian
languages relatively simple: no inflection for case, no inflection for
person in the verb, and only two verb tenses, present and preterite, but
contrary to both English and German there is an inflectional passive.

This morphological simplicity is however compensated for syntactically by
an extended use of prepositions in the transitivity system, and a heavy
reliance on prosody, and especially morpheme and word order, both within
the phrase and within the clause, so that Danish grammarians tend to view
the topology as an independent semiotic level and indeed the basic
organisational principle of Danish syntax. Major focuses will therefore be
on topics such as transitivity and word order. 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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