Deviant word order in Swedish poetry

Petzell, Erik Magnusson; Hellberg, Staffan

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.02.008

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“…This seems to be especially true of rules involving word order (see e.g. O'Neil 2001, Eythórsson 2009, Fabb 2010, Thoms 2010, Magnusson Petzell & Hellberg 2014, Häussler et al 2019. Linguists disagree as to whether the rules of poetic language should be seen as an extension of the 'standard' rules of the relevant language, or at least as rules permitted by UG in some languages (see e.g.…”

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V2 violations in different variants of Icelandic: A common denominator?

Angantýsson,

Nowenstein,

Thráinsson

2023

Nord J Linguist

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In this article, we report on a number of violations of (or exceptions to) the so-called V2 constraint in different variants of Icelandic. The main purpose is to investigate what these violations can tell us about the nature of the V2 constraint, its vulnerability, the limits of syntax, and about children’s ability to sort out what is relevant and what is not in the input they hear during the acquisition period. Three main explanatory possibilites are taken under consideration: the use and acceptance of sentences with V2 violations in Icelandic (i) is due to English influence, (ii) indicates an expansion of patterns existing in the language for language-internal reasons, (iii) is due to a task effect. In brief, our results support (i) for heritage Icelandic but not for non-heritage Icelandic, while different subsets of our data are best accounted for in terms of either (ii) or (iii).

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V2 violations in different variants of Icelandic: A common denominator?

Angantýsson,

Nowenstein,

Thráinsson

2023

Nord J Linguist

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“…The concept of dialect as well as that of a standard variety are problematic. In Sweden, a spoken standard variety is an abstract notion, or ideal, that is rarely found in real conversations, but rather used by announcers on TV and in the performing arts (Thelander 1996, Teleman 2003, Magnusson Petzell & Nilsson 2015). Standard Swedish has been described as the opposite of dialects and sociolects (Josephson 2004), and does not reveal the geographical or social background of a speaker (Teleman 2003).…”

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Something old, something new: Some processes for dialect change in Sweden

Nilsson¹

2017

Nord J Linguist

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The traditional dialects of Sweden are changing. In order to investigate how these changes may be proceeding, the use of traditional dialect and new linguistic features have been analyzed in three separate dialect areas: Inland West Sweden, Coastal West Sweden and Torsby in Northern Värmland. The focus is on how much of the traditional dialect used in the mid-20th century is still in use in each location, and what is replacing it in the process of change; this is done by analyzing speakers’ realizations of a total of 137 traditional dialect variables and 18 new variables. In some locations, dialects are leveling towards the standard, more or less rapidly. In others, there is a clear dialect shift to the urban Gothenburg variety or to the use of acombilect, which is a mix of traditional dialect variants, standard variants, new variants and urban variants. Similarities and differences between these separate processes are discussed, with special attention given to the reasons behind dialect change.

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Deviant word order in Swedish poetry

Cited by 2 publications

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V2 violations in different variants of Icelandic: A common denominator?

V2 violations in different variants of Icelandic: A common denominator?

Something old, something new: Some processes for dialect change in Sweden

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