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The history of Nordic relative clauses / Terje Wagener.
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Wagener, Terje, 1973-
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English
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Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
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xvii, 412 pages ; 24 cm
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PD1717 .W34 2017
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Scandinavian languages
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Clauses
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Series
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 304.
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; volume 304
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Summary note
This book gives an analysis of relative clauses as they evolve throughout the history of (Mainland) Scandinavian, from Ancient Nordic to Early Modern Norwegian.
Notes
"This book is a reworked version of my PhD dissertation from 2014, 'The history of Norwegian relative clauses'."--Acknowledgements
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index.
Contents
Abbreviations of linguistic terms
Abbreviations of sources
Languages and the periods they cover
List of tables
Introduction
A synchronic analysis of 13th century relative clauses in the Nordic languages
Choice of Old Norse and Middle Danish data
Choice of Old Norse data
Choice of Middle Danish data
What is a relative clause?
The syntax of relative complexes : basic assumptions
Typology and delineation
Definition
Free relative clauses and correlative clauses
Adverbial clauses
Non-restrictive relative clauses
Conclusion
Marking NPREL
Relative clauses in Modern Norwegian (with notes on the other Scandinavian languages)
Some methodological remarks
Som-insertion in Modern Norwegian
Free relative clauses in Modern Norwegian
Adverbial clauses in Modern Norwegian
Comparative clauses
Complementation or adjunction?
The determiner-complement (D+CP) analysis
The headway-argument
Other candidates for a D+CP-analysis : comparatives, equatives and degree clauses
The adjunct analysis
Adjuncts are syntactically non-obligatory
RCs are like adjectives
Agreement between the determiner and the relative antecedent
Choice of determiner
A short introduction to Old Norse relative clauses
Referential properties of Old Norse relative complexes
RC-antecedents in Óláfs saga hins helga : some statistics
Reference, uniqueness and specificity
Sá in non-relative contexts
Sá as an anaphoric demonstrative
Sá vs. hinn as a preadjectival determiner
Uniqueness and specificity in relative contexts
ON sá versus the suffixed definite article -inn in relative contexts
Conclusion so far (and two intriguing examples)
Referential properties of sá in relative contexts
Non-specific relative complexes
The potential referent is a kind : sá in non-specific kind-reading relative complexes
The potential referent is an individual : sá in non-specific individual-reading relative complexes
Specific relative complexes
Sá in unique and specific relative complexes
Sá in non-unique and specific relative complexes
Sá in non-restrictive RCs
Scope relations between sá and other determiners
Referential properties of Middle Danish thæn in relative contexts
Referential properties of thæn in Eriks sællandske lov
Referential properties of thæn in Jyske lov
Concluding remarks
Does Old Norse have a relative pronoun?
'Learned-style' relative pronouns
Maling (1977) : ON resumptive pronouns are underlyingly relative pronouns
Sá : a relative pronoun?
Arguments against treating sá as a relative pronoun
No arbitrary rules for deleting relative pronouns
Complementarity with main clause elements : no relative complex : has both a pre- and a postnominal sá
Case properties
Relative pronouns cannot be modified by adjectives
Other possibilities : sá generated to the left of the RC
Relative pronouns in Middle Danish and Old Swedish
Free relative clauses and correlatives
Old Norse relative clauses introduced by bare demonstrative : FRs or semi-FRs?
'True' FRs
Correlative RCs in Old Norse?
Locational clauses
A diachronic analysis of relative clauses in Middle Norwegian, Younger Middle Danish and beyond
Temporal clauses
Do temporal clauses have a relative structure?
Er- relative or temporal complementizer?
Choice of post-1300 Norwegian data
W-pronouns in relative contexts
A brief recapitulation : W-RCs in Old Norse
W- and d-pronouns in relative contexts in Germanic
Native Germanic w-pronouns in relative contexts : relative or indefinite pronouns?
Relative w-pronouns in the post-1300 data
Huar as a relative pronoun
Hwilkin
Old Norse hvílíkr
The different functions of Middle Norwegian hwilkin in relative contexts
Hwilkin as a relative pronoun
R-compounds
Free relative clauses
Free relatives or w-RCs in Middle Norwegian? Possible criteria
An analysis of Middle Norwegian huat in relative contexts
FR-pronouns vs. interrogative pronouns
Why are w-pronouns marginal in Norwegian relative contexts?
W-pronouns in relative contexts in Middle Danish
W-pronouns in relative contexts in Eriks sællandske lov
Hvær
Hvilkin
Hva
Hvat
Other possible correlative constructions
W-pronouns in relative contexts Jyske lov
Hwylk
Hwo
Hwat
Adverbial FRs
Then in Middle Norwegian and beyond
Then as a uniqueness-marking adjectival article
The fate of non-unique sá
Then and non-unique quantifiers
Non-unique, specific then
Simple definites : typical of relative contexts?
Relative complementizers in the Nordic languages
Is/er/ær
Sem/sum/som
bar/ther/thær/der
Ther as a relative complementizer in Middle Norwegian?
Thær in East Nordic
O-RCs in Middle Norwegian : an introduction
Complementizerless constructions that are not O-RCs
The apo koinou construction
Apo koinou in Germanic
Apo koinou in Old Norse
Apo koinou in Middle Norwegian and Early Modern Norwegian
A short note on apo koinou in Middle Danish
Subject relative clauses with a temporal head
Relative clauses with betta bref as antecedent
O-RCs in the literature
O-RCs in other Germanic languages
Swedish and Danish
English
O-RCs in Old Norse? The 'tip-of-the-iceberg'-theory
O-RCs in Middle Norwegian and Middle Danish : a descriptive account
O-RCs 1350-1400
FRs 1350-1400
Temporal clauses 1350-1400
Conclusion 1350-1400
O-RCs 1400-1540
RCs with w-antecedents and FRs 1400-1540
RCs with huar as antecedent 1400-1540
Free relative clauses 1400-1540
Er and som as temporal complementizers
Temporal main clause elements reanalysed as temporal complementizers
Reanalysis of Þá/tha
Reanalysis of main clause temporal nouns
Then tidh
Fyrsta
Reanalysis of main clause prepositions : til pess er and frá Því er
Når-clauses
O-RCs in Middle Danish
O-RCs in Eriks sællandske lov
Complementizers in temporal RCs in Eriks sællandske lov
O-RCs in Jyske lov
Complementizers in temporal RCs in Jyske lov
Theoretical approaches to O-RCs
Predictability (Wasow et al. 2011)
Monoclausality/integration
Fox & Thompson (2007)
Weinert (2004)
O-RCs are more dependent on the antecedent (Hawkins 2004)
Prosodic factors (Jaeger 2006)
Division of labour : where does syntax end and non-syntax start?
An analysis of O-RCs in Middle Norwegian and Middle Danish
Syntactic environments for O-RCs
Relative clauses headed by an antecedent featuring a demonstrative
Relative clauses headed by a w-pronoun/FRs
Lack of complementizer insertion in non-relative contexts
Conclusion so far
Theoretical approaches to O-RCs tested on the Middle Norwegian data
Monoclausality (Fox & Thompson 2007)
Preference hierarchy for subjects of O-marked clauses (Hawkins 2004)
Predictability revisited (Wasow et al. 2011)
Predictability of then and universal quantifiers
Predictability of w-antecedents
Some concluding remarks
Semantic characteristics of relative complexes with O-RCs
Inclusiveness/maximalization
Superlatives and adjectives, non-restrictivity
Comparison between Middle Norwegian and Middle Danish
The tip-of-the-iceberg hypothesis revisited
Why 1400?
A more fixed word order
Increase in the predictability of simple definites
Loss of er as a lexical item
The subsequent development : the 'syntactification' of O-RCs
Syntactification
Obligatory som in subject relative clauses
Disambiguation and the loss of stylistic fronting
The subject requirement
Optional som in non-subject relative clauses
Summary and some concluding remarks
References.
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