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Piotrowska, Alicja,

Variation in Nominal Possessive Expressions : Case Studies from Danish and Swedish / Case Studies from Danish and Swedish Alicja Piotrowska. - 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations. - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 22 Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024 . - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 22. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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ISBN: 9789004682184

Standard No.: 110.1163/9789004682184 DOI

LCCN: 2023040009

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Danish language--Possessives--Case studies.
Danish language--Variation--Case studies.
Swedish language--Possessives--Case studies.

LC Class. No.: PD3398.P66

Dewey Class. No.: 439.75/5