Bøger i Empirical Approaches to Lingui serien

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

"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 pa 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"--