Danish: An Essential Grammar

Lundskær-Nielsen, T; Holmes, Philip

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“…There is still a multitude of evidence (both written and spoken data with informants with different L1s) showing that inversion is difficult for L2 learners whose L1 lacks obligatory inversion, such as Finns (Karlsson 2017; see Lund 1997 for L2 Danish and Saarik 2006 for L2 Norwegian). Next, the central results from previous research in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish as L2s are summarised, as these closely related Scandinavian languages follow similar rules for word order (Allan et al 2000;Strandskogen/Strandskogen 1995).…”

Section: Previous Research: Word Order In L2 Scandinavian Languagesmentioning

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Subject-verb Word Order in Narratives in Swedish by Immersion and Non-immersion Students

Nyqvist

2021

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The Swedish V2 word order has been considered a notorious source of difficulty for L2 learners due to its strict rules. This study explores subject-verb word order in texts written in Swedish by 12-year-old and 15-year-old Finnish-speaking immersion students and by 16-year-old non-immersion students. Although the L1 of the informants lacks obligatory inversion, the analyses show that informants in all three groups have reached a high accuracy level in several aspects of word order in main clauses. However, the informants struggle with challenges that are similar to those detected in previous research: inversion is omitted in its obligatory occasions in main clauses but simultaneously overused in subordinate clauses where word order is canonical. In main clauses, the challenges focus on declarative main clauses with inversion. In subordinate clauses, on the contrary, the challenges focus on questions.

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Subject-verb Word Order in Narratives in Swedish by Immersion and Non-immersion Students

Nyqvist

2021

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“…In principle, objects and animals (except for very beloved pets) would be inquired about with hvilket/hvilken (which, inflected for gender), as in ( 24) (Allan et al, 2000) but in the data collected for this study, such inquiries were absent.…”

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The question–response system of Danish

Heinemann

2010

Journal of Pragmatics

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This paper provides an overview of the question-response system of Danish based on 350 questions. The questions were sampled from nine video recordings of naturally occurring conversations, each featuring two to four native speakers of Danish. The video recording took place while the participants were having a break from the activity they were engaged in, such as working or taking a bicycle trip on their holiday. The participants consist of 19 female and 5 male speakers, ranging from 3 to 86 years of age and coming from various parts of Denmark. In the following, the overview will be presented as an overview of the Danish question-response system. This does not exclude the possibility of variation based on speakers' gender, age, social class or geographical location within Denmark. However, no significant variation was found between individual speakers of Danish in this study.The questions were collected and coded according to a coding scheme developed at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics (Stivers and Enfield, 2010). This entails, among other things, that an utterance was coded as a question (and hence included in the study) if the utterance was either a formal question (lexical, morphological, syntactic or prosodic interrogative marking) or a functional question (an utterance that effectively seeks to elicit information, confirmation or agreement).The coding scheme forms the base for the following sections, in which I describe the lexico-grammatical options for formulating questions (section 2), the range of social actions implemented through questions (section 3) and the relationship between questions and responses (section 4). I identify features where Danish differs from other languages in the comparative question-response coding project (see Enfield et al., 2010) and discuss possible implications of this variation.

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Germanic verb particle variation

Vikner¹

2017

Elements of Comparative Syntax

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Danish: An Essential Grammar

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Subject-verb Word Order in Narratives in Swedish by Immersion and Non-immersion Students

Subject-verb Word Order in Narratives in Swedish by Immersion and Non-immersion Students

The question–response system of Danish

Germanic verb particle variation

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