Terje Lohndal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Terje Lohndal plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0166-0829
Journal
ISSN 1879-9264 | E-ISSN 1879-9272
Title
In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque
Edited by Terje Lohndal
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] 2013. vi, 361 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
Formal approaches to bi- and multilingual grammars rely on two important claims: (i) the grammatical architecture should be able to deal with mono- and bi-/multilingual data without any specific constraints for the latter, (ii) features play a pivotal role in accounting for patterns across and… read more
2024 Modeling multilingual grammars: Constraints and predictions Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 104–114 | Article
2023 Variable V2 in Norwegian heritage language: An effect of crosslinguistic influence? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:2, pp. 133–162 | Article
This paper discusses possible attrition of verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language by investigating a corpus of spontaneous speech produced by 50 2nd–4th generation heritage speakers in North America. The study confirms previous findings that V2 word order is generally stable… read more
2017 Variation and change in Norwegian wh-questions: The role of the complementizer som Syntactic Variation and Change, Håkansson, David, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell (eds.), pp. 8–43 | Article
In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh-questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical… read more
2015 Be careful how you use the left periphery Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article
The paper evaluates two left-peripheral analyses of gapping: one cartographic analysis, and a second Minimalist analysis, which aligns the left-peripheral movement of gapping with fronting for contrastive effects. It is shown that there are similar problems for both these analyses, in particular… read more
2013 Introduction In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2009 Chapter 9. The Copula cycle Cyclical Change, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.) | Article
2007 On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 287–310 | Article
The suffixed definite article in Modern Norwegian developed from a clitic in Old Norse. Such a change creates interesting theoretical questions as to how we can account for this difference in phrase structural terms, and how such a change manifests itself. This paper discusses exactly this question… read more