Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Alexiadou, Artemis"
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Editorial: The Grammar of Multilingualism
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016) -
From the Origins of Government and Binding to the Current State of Minimalism
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2021)This chapter provides a review of the current Chomskyan approach to the study of human language, known as the Minimalist Program. It offers an overview of the central ideas that were central in shaping the program, in ... -
Germanic diminutives: a case study of a gap in Norwegian
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
On the division of labor between roots and functional structure
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2017)This chapter argues that there is a typology of languages according to how much meaning a root encodes independently of its syntactic categorization. This typology is illustrated by an in-depth discussion of three languages: ... -
The asymmetric nature of V2: Evidence from learner languages
Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje; Alexiadou, Artemis (Chapter, 2019) -
The structural configurations of root categorization
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2017)This paper discusses the syntax of roots by way of looking at four different views discussed in the literature: (i) roots merged as complements, (ii) roots merged as modifiers, (iii) roots merged either as complements or ... -
Til en ung en kjekk en kar: Indefinite determiner spreading in Scandinavian and beyond
Anderssen, Merete; Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2019)This study investigates multiple indefi nite determiners in structures involving adjectival modifi cation in a Norwegian dialect. Determiner spreading has been observed in numerous non-standard Germanic varieties but has ... -
Units of Language Mixing: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Language mixing is a ubiquitous phenomenon characterizing bilingual speakers. A frequent context where two languages are mixed is the word-internal level, demonstrating how tightly integrated the two grammars are in the ... -
V3 in Germanic: A comparison of urban vernaculars and heritage languages
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2018)It is well known that varieties of Germanic do not display a strict V2 system whereby the finite verb is in the second position in main clauses. In this paper, we compare the Germanic heritage language American Norwegian ... -
V3 in Germanic: A Comparison of urban vernaculars and heritage languages
Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2018)It is well known that varieties of Germanic do not display a strict V2 system whereby the finite verb is in the second position in main clauses. In this paper, we compare the Germanic heritage language American Norwegian ...