26.844, Books: Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: Bentzen, Rosenkvist, Johannessen (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:44:22
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: Bentzen, Rosenkvist, Johannessen (eds.)

 


Title: Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax 
Subtitle: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 221  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.221 


Editor: Kristine Bentzen
Editor: Henrik Rosenkvist
Editor: Janne Bondi Johannessen

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027257048 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027257048 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027257048 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally
categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international
attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic
than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative isolation for
about 1000 years, a number of interesting linguistic archaisms have been
preserved and innovations have developed. This volume provides seven papers
about Övdalian morphology and syntax. The papers, all based on extensive
fieldwork, cover topics such as verb movement, subject doubling, wh-words and
case in Övdalian. Constituting the first comprehensive linguistic description
of Övdalian in English, this volume is of interest for linguists in the fields
of Scandinavian and Germanic linguistics, and also historical linguists will
be thrilled by some of the presented data. The data and the analyses presented
here furthermore challenge our view of the morphosyntax of the Scandinavian
languages in some cases – as could be expected when a new language enters the
linguistic arena.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Elfdalian (qer)
                     Faroese (fao)
                     Icelandic (isl)
                     Swedish (swe)

Language Family(ies): North Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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