New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics / / ed. by Janet Duke, Martin Hilpert, Christine Mertzlufft, Jan-Ola Östman, Michael Rießler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bradley, Jeremy,; Braunmüller, Kurt,; Duke, Janet,; Habicht, Külli,; Hilmarsson-Dunn, Amanda,; Hilpert, Martin,; Iosad, Pavel,; Johannessen, Janne Bondi,; Jónsdóttir, Margrét,; Karjus, Andres,; Kristinsson, Ari Páll,; Kuznetsova, Natalia,; Larsson, Ida,; Mertzlufft, Christine,; Metslang, Helle,; Pajusalu, Karl,; Rießler, Michael,; Rosenkvist, Henrik,; Stroh-Wollin, Ulla,; Weinstock, John,; Árnason, Kristján,; Östman, Jan-Ola,
• HerausgeberIn: Duke, Janet,; Hilpert, Martin,; Mertzlufft, Christine,; Rießler, Michael,; Östman, Jan-Ola,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

This book offers a survey of current work in Nordic and General Linguistics, with a special focus on language contact. The papers in this book were presented at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL) in Freiburg. The ICNGL conference series aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Scandinavian and other languages, between researchers from the Nordic countries and elsewhere. The present volume focuses on language contact, which has always been a topic of great interest in Nordic Linguistics. Additionally, the contributions in this book address issues of phonology, morpho-syntax, syntax, and grammaticalization. The book is meant to be a snapshot of Nordic Linguistics as it is practiced today, reflecting at the same time its established research traditions as well as its forages into new methodologies and theories.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introducing new trends in Nordic linguistic research -- Section 1: Language contact -- Competing tendencies in Germanic pronominal and deictic systems: The most general principle will prevail -- “Pitch accent” and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact -- Implications of language contact: Evaluating the appropriateness of borrowings in written Icelandic -- At the frontier: Sámi linguistics gets a boost from outside -- Section 2: Phonology -- Two phonological rarities in Ingrian dialects -- Analysing phonological variation in Faroese -- Section 3: Morphosyntax -- Mari converb constructions – Interpretation and translation -- Han and hon – Anaphoric pronouns in Early Scandinavia -- From accusative to dative (via nominative): The case of fjölga ‘increase’ and fækka ‘decrease’ in Icelandic -- Section 4: Syntax -- A generative interpretation of Diderichsen’s positional grammar -- Evidence for a syntactic Parameter at work in Övdalian -- Embedded word order in Heritage Scandinavian -- Section 5: Grammaticalization -- Through the spyglass of synchrony: Grammaticalization of the exterior space in the Eastern Circum-Baltic -- Conjunctive markers of polar questions in Estonian -- Index