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The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic [PDF]
, 2021 This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The
Dominika Skrzypek
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English as North Germanic [PDF]
Language Dynamics and Change, 2016 The present article is a summary of the book English: The Language of the Vikings by Joseph E. Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund. The major claim of the book and of this article is that there are lexical and, above all, syntactic arguments in favor of considering Middle and Modern English as descending from the North Germanic language spoken by the ...
Jan Terje Faarlund, Joseph Emonds
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Proto-Germanicaiin North and West Germanic [PDF]
Folia Linguistica, 2017 AbstractProto-Germanic (PGmc.)aiin stressed syllables shows varied outcomes in Germanic languages (ā, ē, ei), with many of these developments being conditioned by different phonological contexts. This article presents a reconstruction that unifies this variation by assuming that the monophthongisation spread over ‘Germania’ in two waves with different ...
Arjen Versloot
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The North Germanic Dialect Continuum
, 2020 The modern North Germanic languages family consists of mutually intelligible languages spoken in mainland Scandinavia (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) and the insular languages Faroese and Icelandic. The languages have a common origin but have now diverged to such an extent that there are three different language continua with a large number of ...
Charlotte Gooskens
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The explananda in North Germanic Tonogenesis
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"The article discusses two explananda relating to tonogenesis in North Germanic: A) the origin of a tonal representation, B) the origin of a lexical distinction. Tradition has largely focused on B before A. I elucidate the assumptions of B > A hypothesis and argue that it fails to properly address the phonologization of lexical tones. The alternative
Tomas Riad
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North Germanic Negation. A Microcomparative Perspective
, 2013 Avhandlinga undersøker distribusjonen til nordgermansk setningsnegasjon fra et strukturelt og geografisk perspektiv innenfor rammene til chomskyansk generativ grammatikk. Negasjonens distribusjon er undersøkt i følgende strukturer: (i) I hovedsetninger i forhold til invertert subjekt og pronominelle objekt; (ii) i undersetninger i forhold til subjekt ...
Christine B. Østbø Munch
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Prosodic complexity and mora counting in North Germanic
Abstract This paper proposes a typology of word-prosodic complexity applied to Modern North Germanic languages, including tonal word accents in Swedish and Norwegian, and different accent systems in Danish dialects ( Section 1 ).
Hans Basbøll
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The North Germanic Morphosyntax of Modern English [PDF]
Joseph Emonds, Jan Terje Faarlund
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
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