Annotated corpus sample retrieved from Sketch Engine including 16 nomination verbs in 4 languages (Dutch: kronen 'crown', verkiezen 'elect', promoveren 'promote', uitroepen 'proclaim; English: crown, elect, promote, proclaim; French: couronner 'crown', élire 'elect', promouvoir 'promote', proclamer 'proclaim'; Spanish: coronar 'crown', elegir 'elec...
Denna uppsats undersöker kontinuativer i elva germanska språk genom en kvantitiv och kvalitativ analys av korpusdata. Syftet är att undersöka om den lexikala förändring som beskrivs hos kontinuativer i svenska av Britse (2022) kan observeras i andra germanska språk. Studien ämnar även undersöka polysemin hos kontinuativer och föreslå en...
Published in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
In this paper I reconstruct two separative argument structure constructions for West Germanic: one involving a genitive of origin and one involving an instrumental in the process of being subsumed under the dative. Although neither genitives nor instrumentals/datives are typically used to refer to literal origins in space in any of the languages un...
This study addresses gender assignment in six North Scandinavian varieties with a three-gender system: Old Norse, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Old Swedish, Nysvenska, Jamtlandic, and Elfdalian. Focusing on gender variation and change, we investigate the role of various factors in gender change. Using the contemporary Swedish varieties Jamtlandic and Elfdal...
Published in Lingua Posnaniensis
The inscription discovered in 1931 on the remains of a cinerary urn near Sedschütz, Upper Silesia, was at first proposed to be runic. Later analysed as a Germanic text written in Roman characters, the long-obscure Iron Age inscription has only recently been republished after being moved from the museum where it was originally conserved. Presumably ...
Published in Linguistics
In this paper, we introduce the issue of adjective order and show that different approaches vary in their answers to the question of how fine-grained the semantic categories determining adjective order are. We report on a corpus study that we conducted and that illustrates that a clear answer to the question of what general factors exactly determin...
Published in Open Linguistics
This paper deals with the influence of animacy on affectedness. German, like other Germanic languages, requires oblique marking of the inanimate undergoer argument of verbs of contact by impact (e.g. hit, kick, bite), whereas the animate undergoer argument takes non-oblique marking. Inanimacy does not necessarily result in oblique marking; undergoe...
This paper deals with Modal Complement Ellipsis (MCE) in Czech from a comparative perspective. We show that Czech MCE displays a mixed behaviour in comparison with languages like English, Dutch and French. Like English, it allows for various extractions from the ellipsis site and for different subjects in ACD constructions. Like French and Dutch, i...
Published in STUF - Language Typology and Universals
This paper discusses the properties of phrasal compounds in English, German, Turkish and Sakha, a Turkic language. Two questions are addressed: 1. What is the formal status of elements building (phrasal) compounds? 2. How can we distinguish compounds from phrasal forms? A number of traditional definitions and criteria are discussed, and the result ...
