33.1068, Books: Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish: Larsson, Petzell (eds.)

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Subject: 33.1068, Books: Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish: Larsson, Petzell (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:20:28
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish: Larsson, Petzell (eds.)

 


Title: Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish 
Series Title: Open Germanic Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/329 


Editor: Ida Larsson
Editor: Erik M. Petzell

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103256 Pages: 360 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This volume explores morphosyntactic change in the Late Modern Swedish period
from the 18th century and onwards. This period is interesting, for a number of
reasons. This is when Swedish is established as a national standard language.
New genres emerge, and the written language becomes more generally available
to all speakers. We also sometimes find diverging developments in the
different North Germanic languages, and some of the much-discussed differences
between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are established during this period. In
addition, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the traditional dialects undergo
more dramatic changes than ever. Yet, the Late Modern Swedish period has
previously received fairly little attention in the syntactic literature. This
volume aims to remedy this, with studies that cover several different
grammatical domains, including case and verbal syntax, word order and
agreement, and grammaticalization in the nominal domain. The study by Cecilia
Falk investigates the possibility of promoting an indirect object to subject
in a passive, that emerges during the period. A chapter by Fredrik Valdeson
studies change in the use of ditransitive verbs, from a constructional
perspective. Three chapters are concerned with word order change. The study by
Ida Larsson and Björn Lundquist investigates the development of a strict word
order in particle constructions. Adrian Sangfelt studies the possibility of
having adverbials (and other constituents) between the separate verbal heads
in complex VPs in the final stages of the shift from OV to VO order. Erik M.
Petzell investigates embedded verb placement and agreement morphology in the
Viskadalian dialect, which on the surface seems to contradict the Rich
Agreement Hypothesis. Mikael Kalm discusses the emergence of different kinds
of adverbial infinitival clauses in the standard written language compared to
Övdalian. Finally, the study by Lars-Olof Delsing is concerned with a case of
grammaticalization in the nominal domain, specifically the development of the
gradable adjectives mycket ‘much’ and lite ‘little’ into quantifiers.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Swedish (swe)


Written In: English  (eng)

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