In Search of Universal Grammar

From Old Norse to Zoque

Editor

Terje Lohndal

| Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized thematically with two chapters on each topic: The grammar of the Scandinavian languages (Tor A. Åfarli and Christer Platzack); language policies and sociolinguistics (Unn Røyneland and Peter Trudgill); French (Hans Petter Helland and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen); language change (Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen); lesser-studied languages (Alice Harris and Jerry Sadock); language acquisition (David Lightfoot and Marit Westergaard); and language evolution (Erika Hagelberg and Salikoko Mufwene). This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students to scholars working on any of the areas covered.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.202

Table of Contents

Introduction Terje Lohndal	1–6
Scandinavian
On the syntax of the accusative/dative alternation in spatial PPs in Norwegian dative dialects Tor A. Åfarli	9–26
Spurious topic drop in Swedish Christer Platzack	27–50
Germanic sociolinguistics
“The voice from below”: Norwegian language reforms in the 21st century Unn Røyneland	53–76
Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties Peter Trudgill	77–108
French
Non-finite adjuncts in French Hans Petter Helland	111–130
Topics and the left periphery: A comparison of Old French and Modern Germanic Christine Meklenborg Salvesen	131–172
Language change
The developmental logic of the analytic past in German and Polish: An issue of universalism or areal contact? Werner Abraham	175–194
The diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives Elly van Gelderen	195–218
Lesser-studied languages
Origins of metathesis in Batsbi Alice C. Harris	221–238
Indefinitely definite expressions Jerrold M. Sadock	239–256
Language acquisition
Doing diachrony David Lightfoot	259–274
The acquisition of linguistic variation: Parameters vs. micro-cues Marit Westergaard	275–298
Language evolution
The evolution of language Erika Hagelberg	301–326
Language as technology: Some questions that evolutionary linguistics should address Salikoko S. Mufwene	327–358
Index	359–362

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2014. Publications received in 2013. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 37:1 ► pp. 133 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Historical linguistics

Languages of South America

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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