Recent papers and talks produced by NORMS partners on topics of Scandinavian Syntax and Dialectal Variation
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Recent NORMS publications from Tromsø
Anderssen, Merete. In prep. The Acquisition of Compositional Definiteness in Norwegian: A lexical insertion account of the prolonged omission of the prenominal determiner in modified structures.
Anderssen, Merete. In prep. The Acquisition of Compositional Definiteness. (working title) Tromsø Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings from Workshop on Language Acquisition, Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 2006.
Anderssen, Merete and Marit Westergaard (eds.). 2007. Tromsø Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings from Workshop on Language Acquisition, Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 22, 2006.
Bentzen, Kristine. 2005. What's the better move? On verb placement in Standard and Northern Norwegian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 28.2, special issue on “Dialects and Linguistic Theory”, 153-188.
Bentzen, Kristine. 2007. The degree of movement in Northern Norwegian. In Bentzen and Vangsnes (eds.) Scandinavian Dialect Syntax, Nordlyd 34: 127-146.
Bentzen, Kristine. 2007. Order and Structure in embedded clauses in Northern Norwegian. PhD dissertation, CASTL, UiT, Norway.
Bentzen, Kristine. Forthcoming. Kronoby revisited: Verb movement in Northern Ostrobothnian embedded non-V2 contexts. To appear in Vangsnes, Hrafnbjargarson and Østbø, Solf Proceedings, Nordlyd 35.
Bentzen, Kristine. Submitted. Subject positions and their interaction with verb movement.
Bentzen, Kristine and Øystein A. Vangsnes (eds.). 2007. Scandinavian Dialect Syntax 2005, special issue of Nordlyd – Tromsø University Working Papers in Language & Linguistics. Tromsø: The University Library of Tromsø.
Bentzen, Kristine, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund. 2007. The Tromsø guide to the Force behind V2. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 79:93-118.
Bentzen, Kristine, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund. 2007. Extracting from V2. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 79:119-128.
D'Alessandro, Roberta, Susann Fischer and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson 2008. On agreement restrictions. In: R. D'Alessandro, S. Fischer, and G. H. Hrafnbjargarson. Agreement Restrictions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000595
D'Alessandro, Roberta, Susann Fischer, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (eds.). 2008. Agreement Restrictions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hrafnbjargarson, Gunnar Hrafn. 2007. Generating a lexicon of Scandinavian Modals. In Bentzen and Vangsnes (eds).
Hrafnbjargarson, Gunnar Hrafn. 2008. Substantiverte adjektiv: Det er verste jeg har hørt. In Janne Bondi Johannessen and Kristin Hagen (eds). Språk i Oslo. Ny forskning omkring talespråk. Novus Forlag, Oslo.
Hrafnbjargarson, Gunnar Hrafn, Kristine Bentzen, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund Submitted. Extracting from V2 in Scandinavian.
Hrafnbjargarson, Gunnar Hrafn. 2008. Liberalizing modals and floating clause boundaries. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 82:103-130.
Hróarsdóttir, Þorbjörg, Anna-Lena Wiklund, Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson. 2007. The afterglow of verb movement. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 80.
Hróarsdóttir, Þorbjörg, Anna-Lena Wiklund, Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson. Submitted. Three types of verb movement.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi, Joel Priestley, Kristin Hagen, Tor A. Åfarli, Øystein A. Vangsnes. 2009. The Nordic Dialect Corpus – an Advanced Research Tool. Published in: NEALT Proceedings Series (ISSN 1736-6305), Vol. 4.
Kupisch, Tanja, Merete Anderssen, Ute Bohnacker, Neal Snape. In press. Article Acquisition in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish. In: The Georgetown University Round Table proceedings 2007, Georgetown University Press.
Lightfoot, David and Marit Westergaard. 2007. ‘Language Acquisition and Language Change: Inter-relationships.’ Language and Linguistics Compass 1 (5), 396-416.
Lindstad, Arne Martinus, Anders Nøklestad, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Øystein Alexander Vangsnes. 2009. The Nordic Dialect Database: Mapping Microsyntactic Variation in the Scandinavian Languages. NEALT Proceedings Series 2009 ;Volum 4.
Lundquist, Björn and Gillian Ramchand. To appear. Verbs of contact in English, Swedish and German. Proceedings from CGSW 23-24
Lundquist, Björn. 2008. Participles and Nominalizations in Swedish. Dissertation, University of Tromsø, December 2008.
Lundquist, Björn. Submitted. On Noun-Verb conversion in Swedish. Submitted to Nordlyd special issue on Nanosyntax.
Lundquist, Björn. Submitted. Telicity, Stativity and the Progressive in Swedish, English and Russian. (to be) submitted to Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax.
Lundquist, Björn. To appear. Restrictions on refexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles. To appear in Nordlyd, Working papers from Related to Reexives workshop
Rice, Curt and Øystein A. Vangsnes. 2005. Introduction. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 28(2), Special issue on Dialects and Linguistic Theory, 149-152.
Svenonius, Peter. 2005. How Phonological is Object Shift? Theoretical Linguistics 31.1/2:215-240. Prepublication version available at lingBuzz/000058".
Svenonius, Peter. To appear. Review of Toivonen's (2003, Kluwer) Non-projecting Words. Language. Available at lingBuzz/000189.
Svenonius, Peter and Chris Kennedy. 2006. Northern Norwegian Degree Questions and the Syntax of Measurement, in Phases of Interpretation, ed. by Mara Frascarelli, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. 133-161.
Svenonius, Peter and Christopher Kennedy. 2006. Northern Norwegian Degree Questions and the Syntax of Measurement. In: Phases of Interpretation, edited by Mara Frascarelli. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
Svenonius, Peter and Gillian Ramchand Forthcoming. Mapping a Parochial Lexicon onto a Universal Semantics, to appear in Limits of Syntactic Variation, ed. by M.T. Biberauer. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Svenonius, Peter. 2006. The Emergence of Axial Parts, Nordlyd 33.1:49-77.
Svenonius, Peter. 2007. Interpreting Uninterpretable Features, Linguistic Analysis 33.3-4:375-413. ISSN 0098-9053
Svenonius, Peter. 2007. 1...3-2, In Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, ed. by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 239-288.
Svenonius, Peter. 2007. Adpositions, Particles, and the Arguments they Introduce, in Argument Structure, ed. by Eric Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Giorgos Spathas. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 71-110.
Svenonius, Peter. Forthcoming. Paradigm Generation and Northern Sámi Stems, to appear in The Bases of Inflectional Identity, ed. by Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Nevins, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 73-100.
Svenonius, Peter. Forthcoming. The position of adjectives and other phrasal modifiers in the decomposition of DP, to appear in Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse ed. by Louise McNally and Chris Kennedy. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 16-42.
Svenonius, Peter. Forthcoming. Projections of P, to appear in Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, ed. by Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlacil, Berit Gehrke, and Rick Nouwen. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Svenonius, Peter. Forthcoming. Spatial P in English, to appear in Cartography of Syntactic Structure, vol. 6, ed. by Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Svenonius, Peter. Forthcoming. Case alternations in the Icelandic Passive and Middle, to appear in Passives and Impersonals in European Languages, edited by Satu Manninen, Diane Nelson, Katrin Hiietam, Elsi Kaiser, and Virve Vihmann. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. 2005. Microparameters for Norwegian wh-grammars. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 5, 187-226.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. 2007. Scandinavian Dialect Syntax (before and after) 2005. Nordlyd 2007;34(1):7-24.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. 2008. On peripheral doubling in Scandinavian. In Barbiers et al. (eds.) Microvariations in Syntactic Doubling; Syntax & Semantics 36, 419-441. Emerald, Bingley.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. 2008. Decomposing manner how in colloquial Scandinavian. Studia Linguistica 62:1, 119-141.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. 2008. Omkring adnominalt åssen/hvordan i Oslo-målet [On adnominal åssen/hvordan ‘how’ in the Oslo dialect]. In Johannessen and Hagen (eds.): Språk i Oslo. Ny forskning omkring talespråk. [Language in Oslo. New research about spoken language]. Novus, Oslo, 50-62.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. 2008. What kind of Scandinavian? On interrogative noun phrases across North Germanic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 31:2, 227-251.
Vangsnes, Øystein A. Forthcoming. The polyfunctionality of which in Övdalian. To appear in K. Bentzen and H. Rosenkvist (eds.) Studies in Övdalian Syntax, John Benjamins.
Westergaard, Marit and Øystein A. Vangsnes. 2005. WH-questions, V2, and the Left Periphery of three Norwegian dialect types. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 8:119-160.
Westergaard, Marit and Kristine Bentzen. 2007. The (Non-) Effect of Input Frequency on the Acquisition of Word Order in Norwegian Embedded Clauses. In Insa Gülzow and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the Limits of Frequency as an Explanatory Concept, [Studies on Language Acquisition], 271-306. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Westergaard, Marit. 2005. ‘Norwegian Child Language and the History of English: The Interaction of Syntax and Information Structure in the Development of Word Order.’ In: Kevin McCafferty, Tove Bull and Kristin Killie (eds.), Contexts - Historical, Social, Linguistic. Studies in Celebration of Toril Swan, 293-310. Bern: Peter Lang.
Westergaard, Marit. 2005. Optional word order in wh-questions in two Norwegian dialects: a diachronic analysis of synchronic variation. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 28.2, special issue on “Dialects and Linguistic Theory”, 269-296.
Westergaard, Marit. 2005. The development of word order in Norwegian child language: the interaction of input and economy principles in the acquisition of V2. Dr. philos. dissertation, University of Tromsø.
Westergaard, Marit. 2006. ‘Triggering V2: The amount of input needed for parameter setting in a Split-CP model of word order.’ In Adriana Belletti, Elisa Bennati, Cristiano Chesi, Elisa DiDomenico and Ida Ferrari (eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2005, 564-577. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Westergaard, Marit. 2007a. ‘Learning and Unlearning V2: On the Robustness of the Triggering Experience in a Historical Perspective.’ In M. Cecilia Picchi and Alan Pona (eds.) Proceedings of the XXXII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, 193-207. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.
Westergaard, Marit. 2007b. 'English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Word Order Inconsistencies from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.' STiL - Studies in Linguistics: CISCL Working papers on language and cognition, University of Siena, 159-178.
Westergaard, Marit. 2007c. ‘English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Word Order Inconsistencies from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.’ Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 43(2). (Revised version of Westergaard 2007b).
Westergaard, Marit. 2008. ‘Acquisition and Change: On the Robustness of the Triggering Experience for Word Order Cues.’ Lingua 118.12, 1841-1863.
Westergaard, Marit. 2008. ‘Hvordan barn lærer språk: En sammenligning mellom ordstilling i engelsk og norsk.’ [How children learn language: A comparison between word order in English and Norwegian]. BARN 3, 21-35.
Westergaard, Marit. 2009. ‘Usage-based vs. Rule-based Learning: The Acquisition of Word Order in Wh-Questions in English and Norwegian.’ Journal of Child Language 36.5. 1023-1051.
Westergaard, Marit. 2009. ‘The Development of Word Order in Old and Middle English: The Role of Information Structure and First Language Acquisition.’ Diachronica 26.1, 65-102.
Westergaard, Marit. 2009. 'Microvariation as Diachrony: A View from Acquisition.' Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 12.1, 49-79.
Westergaard, Marit. 2009. The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, Infor¬mation Structure and Economy. [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 145], Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Westergaard, Marit. Forthcoming. ‘Verb Movement and Subject Placement in the Acquisition of Word Order: Pragmatics or Structural Economy?’ In Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Pilar Larranaga and John Clibbens (eds.), First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners. [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders]0, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Westergaard, Marit. Forthcoming. ‘Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective.’ In Paola Crisma and Guiseppe Longobardi (eds.), Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Westergaard, Marit. Forthcoming. ‘Subject positions and information structure: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.’ Accepted for publication in Studia Linguistica.
Westergaard, Marit. Forthcoming. ‘The Syntax-Morphology Interface: Finiteness and Word Order in Norwegian and English Child Language.’ First Language, special issue on interfaces in language acquisition.
Westergaard, Marit. Submitted. ‘Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development.’
Westergaard, Marit. Submitted. ‘Acquisition and Change: On the Robustness of the Triggering Experience in a Historical Perspective.’
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2005. The syntax of tenselessness: on copying constructions in Swedish. Fil. dr. dissertation, Umeå University.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2007. The Syntax of Tenselessness: Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals. Studies in Generative Grammar 92. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2008. Tense/Mood/Aspect-doubling. In Barbiers et al. Microvariations in Syntactic Doubling: Syntax and semantics 36. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Kristine Bentzen, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir. 2007. Rethinking Scandinavian verb movement. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 10 (3): 203-233.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena, Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir. 2009. On the distribution and illocution of V2 in Scandinavian that-clauses. Lingua 119: 1914-1938.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2008. Creating Surprise in Complex Predication. In Svenonius, P. and Tolskaya, I. Tromsø Working Papers on Language & Linguistics: Nordlyd 35, special issue on Complex Predicates.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2009. In search of the force of dependent V2: A note on Swedish. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 83:27-36.