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Variation in Nominal Possessive Expressions: Case Studies from Danish and Swedish

Variation in Nominal Possessive Expressions: Case Studies from Danish and Swedish

Piotrowska, Alicja

Hardcover

Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, Book 22

EtymologyGeneral Scandinavian Languages

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ISBN10: 9004682155
ISBN13: 9789004682153
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 29 2023
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This book is an account of the variation between two possessive constructions in Danish and Swedish: the s-genitive (husets tak 'the house's roof'), and the prepositional construction (taket på huset 'the roof of the house'). Present-day corpus data, as well as historical data (texts from 1250-1550) are explored. Through statistical and qualitative analysis, various factors that influence the choice between the two constructions are identified. The book offers new data on the genitive variation in Danish and Swedish. The approach is also novel as two closely related Scandinavian languages are compared from both a historical and a contemporary perspective.

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