Grammaticalization in the North: Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian vernaculars

This book looks at some phenomena within the grammar of the noun phrase in a group of traditional North Germanic varieties mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland, usually seen as Swedish dialects, although the differences between them and Standard Swedish are often larger than between the latter and th...

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Main Author: Dahl, Östen (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Language Science Press 2015
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