Browsing Det humanistiske fakultet (HF) by Journals "Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics"

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    • Adjunct control in German, Norwegian, and English 

      Høyem, Inghild Flaate; Fischer, Silke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper presents an overview of adjunct control in German, Norwegian, and English, comprising adverbial infinitives, adverbial present and past participle constructions, as well as adverbial small clauses headed by the ...

    • Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English 

      Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper presents a comparative syntactic account of participial adjuncts in German and English. While the typological literature describes German participial adjuncts as much more restricted than their English counterparts ...

    • A comparison of Norwegian and Spanish L1 acquisition of possessive constructions 

      Fábregas, Antonio; Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In language acquisition studies, there is a recurring debate regarding how to account for non-target-consistent utterances produced by young children. Anderssen and Westergaard (Lingua 120:2569–2588, 2010) study the ...

    • 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 ...

    • Language mixing within verbs and nouns in American Norwegian 

      Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Grimstad, Maren Berg; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents case-studies of language mixing within verbs and nouns in the heritage language American Norwegian, which refers to varieties spoken by Norwegian immigrants to the US and their descendants. The paper ...

    • The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison 

      Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      It is well known that grammatical gender systems may change historically. Previous research has documented loss of the feminine gender in several Norwegian dialects, including those spoken in Oslo and Tromsø (Lødrup in ...