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dc.contributor.authorBerg, Ivar
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-29T10:36:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-01T09:55:12Z
dc.date.available2015-11-29T10:36:12Z
dc.date.available2015-12-01T09:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationHaug, Dag Trygve Truslew [Eds.] Historical Linguistics 2013 p. 179-194, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015nb_NO
dc.identifier.isbn9789027248534
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2366359
dc.description.abstractThe four cases of Old Norse were lost in Norwegian during the Late Middle Ages. The present paper examines what happened in more detail, aiming to sort out discernible stages in the deflexion process and suggesting a relative and absolute chronology. Some Modern Norwegian (and Swedish) dialects still retain a dative case, which in itself shows that case inflection did not simply disappear. Two main phenomena will be discussed here: a) Former genitivegoverning prepositions are increasingly found with dative complements, showing that the genitive was lost as a lexical case; and b) changes in the paradigm of some pronouns and especially the demonstrative þessi ‘this’ indicate that marking the dative remained decisive. It thus seems that Norwegian at one stage, presumably much more widely than in present dialects, had a two-case system where dative was the only marked alternative.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Companynb_NO
dc.titleStages in deflexion and the Norwegian dativenb_NO
dc.typeChapternb_NO
dc.date.updated2015-11-29T10:36:12Z
dc.source.journalHistorical Linguistics 2013nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/cilt.334.10ber
dc.identifier.cristin1289778
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 222594nb_NO
dc.description.localcodeJohn Benjamins Publishing Company. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article.nb_NO


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