8. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. English

Goddard, Cliff; Karlsson, Susanna

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“…The seven verba sentiendi discussed here each have slightly different pragmatic functions when used to frame a subsequent C-element. A detailed analysis is beyond the scope of this paper; the reader is referred to Imo (2006Imo ( , 2007 and (2009), as well as Günthner & Imo (2003) for details about German; for Swedish, see Saari (1986) and Karlsson (2006), as well as Goddard & Karlsson (2008). We will only point out some of the main characteristics.…”

Section: Pre-positioned Verba Sentiendimentioning

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“…The inversion signals that the verbum sentiendi expression is linked to the prior utterance as an addition or a follow-up and thus depends on it (see Lindström & Karlsson 2005). 7 As Goddard and Karlsson (2008) point out, English I think is polysemous and translates most of the German and Swedish expressions above (with the exception of ich mein/jag menar which is closer to I mean). 8 Cf.…”

Section: Pre-vs Post-positioned Verba Sentiendi As Subjective Stancementioning

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Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction

Auer

Lindström

2016

Language Sciences

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In this paper, we argue that the suggested mirror-equivalence of 'left-' and 'right-' adjoined or -positioned constituents in syntax is misleading from the point of view of Interactional Linguistics and needs to be replaced by a positionally sensitive grammatical analysis, in which pre-and post-positioning is seen in the context of the sequential unfolding of conversation in time. We show this on the basis of various examples from conversational German and Swedish. Our main empirical focus is on pre-and post-positioned verba sentiendi expressions of the type ich denke… or jag tror (cf. English 'I think'). A quantitative analysis shows that these expressions have an uneven distribution in pre-and post-position, as well as in different discourse genres. In a sequential analysis, we can see a positionally sensitive differentiation with respect to syntactic integration and interactional meaning, especially with reference to the dynamics of stance taking and turn taking.

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Section: Pre-positioned Verba Sentiendimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pre-vs Post-positioned Verba Sentiendi As Subjective Stancementioning

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Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction

Auer

Lindström

2016

Language Sciences

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“…In this language, the English sentence this thing is small, would be translated as samting ia i smol (Levisen 2016). In Danish, ting functions as an allolex of noget (Levisen 2012), and in Swedish, three allolexes for SOMETHING have been identified: något, någonting, and sak (Goddard & Karlsson 2008, Löfstrand 2013, Arle 2018. Mandarin Chinese has three variants shénme, mŏshì and dōngxī (Wong & Ye 2016, Goddard 2018; see also Tien 2009), Arabic has one: shayᵓ (Habib 2017(Habib , 2019.…”

Section: Cross-linguistic and Metalinguistic Perspectivesmentioning

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The syntax of something: Evaluative affordances ofnogetin Danish construction grammar

Levisen

2020

Nord J Linguist

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This paper explores ‘the evaluative noget construction’ in Danish. The construction consists of noget ‘something’ juxtaposed by a noun in an evaluative frame such as e.g. Det er noget pjat, ‘It’s nonsense’. With a starting point in cross-linguistic studies on something, the paper moves on to explore core members of this evaluative class in Danish, providing a detailed semantic analysis of the construction’s core configurations. The affordance of noget ‘something’ to mean ‘something bad’ is a key to understanding the construction, and from this general premise the class of evaluatives take off in multiple negative directions, providing a snapshot of the Danish linguaculture of evaluation. The paper argues for a Cultural Construction Grammar that can bring together the lexicogrammatical integrationism of construction grammar approaches with the linguacultural holism of the research in ethnosyntax. The goal is to provide high-definition analysis of complex, language-specific constructions in a simple, globally translatable metalanguage.

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“…Enligt Fortescue (2001, s. 17) delar många språkbrukare intuitivt upp sitt kognitiva spektrum i hörnstenarna knowing, remembering, thinking och understanding (jfr en tjugo år tidigare och delvis liknande indelning i minne, tänkande och kunskap-tro-åsikt i Viberg, 1980, s. 14). I svenskan har vi inte endast en motsvarighet till engelskans think, eller italienskans pensare, utan behöver tänka, tycka och tro för att täcka motsvarande semantiska fält (Viberg, 2005, s. 142-151, se även Aijmer, 1988, s. 87, 1997Goddard & Karlsson, 2008;Grahn, 2012, s. 45). På svenska skulle det kognitiva spektret som motsvarar Fortescues hörnstenar därmed kunna indelas i de semantiska fälten veta, minnas, tänka, tycka, tro och förstå.…”

Section: Kognitionsverb -Avgränsning Och Indelningunclassified

Kognitionsverb i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska handledningssamtal

Nelson

Henricson

2019

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I denna studie undersöker vi vilka kognitionsverb sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska studenter och handledare använder i akademiska handledningssamtal och i vilken omfattning de olika verben används. Materialet består av svenskspråkiga ämnes- och språkhandledningssamtal som spelats in vid universitet och högskolor i Sverige och i Finland. Resultatet av den kvantitativa och kontrastiva analysen visar att antalet och andelen kognitionsverb är högre i det sverigesvenska materialet. I båda materialsamlingarna använder handledarna fler kognitionsverb än studenterna. De finlandssvenska studenterna bidrar dock med fler kognitionsverb än de sverigesvenska studenterna. I analysen noteras vissa nyansskillnader vad gäller vilka semantiska fält som betonas och förekomsten av specifika kognitionsverb.

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8. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. English

Cited by 12 publications

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Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction

Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction

The syntax of something: Evaluative affordances ofnogetin Danish construction grammar

Kognitionsverb i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska handledningssamtal

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