The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.
Tor A. Åfarli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tor A. Åfarli plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions
Tor A. Åfarli
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 7] 1992. xii, 177 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact: Language mixing in Dakkhini Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity, Álvarez González, Albert, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 27–49 | Chapter
In this paper, we lay the groundwork for an explanation of the language mixing outcomes witnessed in the grammar of contemporary Dakkhini, which is the result of long-term diachronic contact between Hindi/Urdu and Telugu. We argue that an Exoskeletal Frame Model is well suited to account both for… read more
2016 Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness: Evidence from impersonal sentences in Norwegian dialects and in English Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 171–188 | Article
I argue in this article that agreement is not an essential ingredient of T/finiteness. Using the mechanism of valuation of unvalued features, I argue that unvalued agreement features in T only exist if there is visible subject – verb agreement in the language/dialect. Correspondingly, I argue that… read more
2015 Hybrid Verb Forms in American Norwegian and the Analysis of the Syntactic Relation between the Verb and its Tense Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 161–177 | Article
English roots/stems that are nonce borrowed into American Norwegian regularly show Norwegian tense inflection. In this article, I use data of such hybrid verb forms as a starting-point for an investigation of the general theoretical analysis of the morpho-syntactic relation between a verbal stem… read more
2014 Introduction: Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2014 Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 153–170 | Article
Mainstream core grammar theory, still to some extent relying on the idealized speaker in a homogeneous speech community, is ill equipped to handle different kinds of periphery data, like code-switching data and other types of language mixing data. In this paper, we defend a model of grammar that we… read more
2013 On the syntax of the accusative/dative alternation in spatial PPs in Norwegian dative dialects In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 9–26 | Article
This paper investigates the systematic alternations between accusative and dative case that is found with spatial prepositions in Norwegian dative dialects. This case alternation is correlated with directional and locative interpretations respectively, and is a phenomenon well known from other… read more
2009 Variability in L2 acquisition of Norwegian DPs: An evaluation of some current SLA models Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications, García Mayo, María del Pilar and Roger Hawkins (eds.), pp. 175–199 | Article
2007 Do verbs have argument structure? Argument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
I argue that the mainstream view of the lexicon-syntax interface whereby a verb’s lexically specifi ed argument structure is projected as syntactic structure is wrong. Instead, I argue for the neo-constructionist view that what we perceive as the argument structure of the verb is really determined… read more
2006 Passive and argument structure Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 373–382 | Article
This paper argues that argument structure does not exist in the sense of a lexical specification of the number and types of arguments of a given verb, but, rather, that argument structure is essentially syntactic, stemming from an interaction between independently generated (syntactic) frames and… read more