30.2609, Books: The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian: Faarlund

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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:50:46
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian: Faarlund

 


Title: The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-syntax-of-mainland-scandinavian-9780198817918 


Author: Jan Terje Faarlund

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198817918 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 90


Abstract:

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term
that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
and parts of Finland. The continuum of mutually intelligible standard
languages, regional varieties, and dialects stretching from southern Jutland
to eastern Finland share many syntactic patterns and features, but also
present interesting syntactic differences. In this volume, Jan Terje Faarlund
discusses the main syntactic features of the national languages, alongside the
most widespread or typologically interesting features of the non-standard
varieties. Each topic is illustrated with examples drawn from reference
grammars, research literature, corpora of various sorts, and the author's own
research. The framework is current generative grammar, but the volume is
descriptive in nature, with technical formalities and theoretical discussion
kept to a minimum. It will hence be a valuable reference for students and
researchers working on any Scandinavian language, as well as for syntacticians
and typologists interested in Scandinavian facts and data without necessarily
being able to read Scandinavian.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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