16 articles in this issue
Peter Svenonius
This special five-volume edition is both Nordlyd number 31 and the Proceedings for the Nineteenth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Here I provide a little background for the conference and the Proceedings.SCL 19 was held in Tromsø on January 10–12,... see more
Tavs Bjerre
Danish has a small group of words traditionally referred to as spatial adverbs. These adverbs are characterized by having three distinct forms, two directional forms, -Ø (1a) and -ad (1b), and a stative form –e (1c) which also occurs in source PPs (1d):H... see more
Olga Borik, Paz González, Henk Verkuyl
A way of improving on the description of the English tense system in Reichenbach [1947] is achieved by changing its matrix 3x3 design into a 2x2x2 set up, formed by 3 basic oppositions:present vs. pastsynchronous vs. posteriorincompleted vs. completed act... see more
Maria Glushko
The article focuses on corpus quantitative investigation of English diachronic morphology with respect to irregularregular verb classes. General tendencies of the evolution of English verb paradigm are analyzed. Three groups of English verbs have been obs... see more
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Liliane Haegeman
In this paper, we offer an analysis for the prenominal possessordoubling construction (PPDC) as it occurs in Germanic, paying particularattention to the differences between Norwegian and West Flemish. Ouranalysis implements recent theoretical proposals co... see more
Silke Hamann
This article deals with the class of retroflex segments in Norwegian. The question is handled whether the phonotactic restrictions on retroflexes to occur mainly only in coda position cannot be better described in terms of the availability of the retrofle... see more
Anya Hogoboom
This article examines an anomalous construction in Norwegian that appearsto be leftward extraction of a subject out of a wh island. Thisextraction seems to be allowed out of a free relative clause in adjunctposition, under certain semantic conditions. T... see more
Anders Holmberg
The paper investigates the consequences of combining the following two assumptions: (a) The English negation n’t is an inflection, and (b) suffixed forms are derived in the syntax by head movement with left-adjunction. An immediate consequence is that Neg... see more
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition.Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations. A change is initiated when (a population of) learners converge on a gramm... see more
Patrycja Jablonska
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Britta Jensen
In this paper I examine the distributional and typological constraints on subjects of imperatives in English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish and aim to account for all the facts call for explanation (interpretation of imperative subject, word order variati... see more
Janne Bondi Johannessen
Correlative words like either, both and neither have not been adequately discussed in the literature. Schwarz (1999) and Larson (1985) give an account of some of them (mainly either) in terms of reduction and movement, respectively, but their theories, a... see more
Kyle Johnson
This paper examines the connection between certain island phenomena for long distance movement, and matching island conditions on focus projection. Based on a description of focus projection that Lisa Selkirk and Michael Rochemont formulate, I take the ba... see more
Frank Joosten
The issue of what is usually, but also misleadingly called the count-mass distinction, i.e. the distinction between nouns that can be counted (e.g. a car, two cars, many cars) and nouns that cannot (e.g. *a sand, *two sands, *many sands, sand, much sand),... see more
Marit Julien
In the so-called 'double definiteness' varieties of Scandinavian(Norwegian, Swedish, and Faroese), a definite nominal phrase that containsno adjective or numeral has a suffixed article but no prenominaldeterminer. But if there are adjectives or numerals ... see more
Elsi Kaiser
Research on reference resolution has shown that there exists a connection between the form of a referring expression and the accessibility/salience of its referent. More specifically, the most salient referents – i.e. those currently at the center of atte... see more