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Scandinavian Studies in Germany
Humanities, 2022 Scandinavian Studies in Germany are usually conceived of as comparative literary and cultural studies, encompassing the historical and current spaces where Northern Germanic languages were or are spoken.
Roland Scheel
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Germanic diminutives: a case study of a gap in Norwegian [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2023 It is well known that German and Dutch have productive diminutive morphology. What is much less discussed is the fact that several other Germanic languages do not have such productive morphology, notably the Scandinavian languages.
A. Alexiadou, Terje Lohndal
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English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 The article talk examines the distribution of relativising strategies in English in a cross-Germanic perspective, arguing that English is quite unique among Germanic languages both regarding the number of available options and their distribution.
Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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WEAK AND STRONG ADJECTIVES IN OLD NORSE: AN EXAMINATION OF KONUNGS SKUGGSJÁ [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 All early Germanic languages distinguish between a weak and a strong adjectival declension. This contrast is traditionally described in terms of definiteness, the strong declension expressing indefinite reference and the weak one definite reference. Such
Terje WAGENER
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Definiteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languages
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2023 This paper examines definiteness marking in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage variety of Norwegian spoken in the US. The description adds another language to the much-studied variation within Scandinavian nominal phrases.
Yvonne van Baal
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What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English
SELIM, 2023 McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian ...
Cynthia L. Allen
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Gender Assignment in Six North Scandinavian Languages: Patterns of Variation and Change
Journal Of Germanic Linguistics, 2021 This study addresses gender assignment in six North Scandinavian varieties with a three-gender system: Old Norse, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Old Swedish, Nysvenska, Jamtlandic, and Elfdalian.
Briana Van Epps, G. Carling, Y. Sapir
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Soot in the Saami and Germanic languages
Scandinavian Philology, 2022 This paper examines the Scandinavian terminology for ‘soot’ in connection with a number of Saami appellatives with a view to deciding which of them are native and which result from borrowing. Special attention is paid to the problem of adopting loanwords
K. Witczak, M. Rychło
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Mìžnarodnij fìlologìčnij časopis, 2022 The paper describes the category of voice in Old Germanic languages on the basis of historical linguistics. The inventory of voice precategory constructions in Gothic-Scandinavian and West German areas has been outlined.
O. Shapochkina
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Etymology and Comparative Phonology of North Germanic Personal Names in the Primary Chronicle [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The paper presents comparative analysis of the names of North Germanic origin in the Primary Chronicle. In Section 1, the author analyses the spelling of the names of the ambassadors who participated in the conclusion of the Treaty of Prince Igor with ...
Sergey L. Nikolaev
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