The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] 2021. vii, 485 pp.
Kristin Melum Eide
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristin Melum Eide plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 231] 2016. vi, 346 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Chapter 15. “Have-less perfects” in Norwegian: An Old Norse heritage The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum and Marc Fryd (eds.), pp. 365–396 | Chapter
The constructions I investigate in this paper can all be subsumed under the heading ‘have-omission’. This is also the traditional analysis, to assume an omission of a semantically superfluous auxiliary in these structures. A different perspective however, and one that I will advocate here, is… read more
2021 Chapter 1. The perfect volume: Papers on the perfect The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum and Marc Fryd (eds.), pp. 1–40 | Chapter
2016 Finiteness, inflection, and the syntax your morphology can afford Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 121–168 | Article
In this paper English and Norwegian are compared with respect to a range of syntactic constructions (negated clauses, negative inversion, polarity questions, declaratives, subjunctives, why-not- constructions and infinitives). The paper also discusses preterit-participle mix-ups in English and… read more
2016 Introduction Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 1–44 | Article
2016 Contradictory parameter settings in one mind: A case study of a Mandarin-Norwegian bilingual’s acquisition of finiteness and V2 in Norwegian Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 309–342 | Article
This paper reports a case study of Mandarin-Norwegian bilingual boy born into a Mandarin-speaking immigrant family in Norway. Mandarin and Norwegian are typologically distinct languages and presumably have contradictory parameters in the domains of finiteness and word order, the focal areas of the… read more
2015 Borrowing Modal Elements into American Norwegian: The Case of suppose(d) Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 256–280 | Article
In a corpus of more than 120 hours of recorded American Norwegian speech we find the word spost, which looks like a non-Norwegian item. This word appears to be in normal use, although Norwegian Americans deny using it. Apparently this is the modal structure ‘be supposed to’ / ‘I suppose’ being… read more
2010 Mood in Norwegian Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 56–70 | Article
2009 Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 91–132 | Article
This paper describes how temporal chains are construed in a syntactic structure. The links in T-chains are local T-heads, where every main verb and auxiliary brings its own tense package. The semantic difference between finite and non-finite T-elements consists in the choice of first argument, the… read more
2009 Finiteness: The haves and the have-nots Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 357–390 | Article
The lack of overt inflectional markings encoding finiteness is a crucial difference between Present Day English (PDE) and modern Mainland Scandinavian languages (MSc). In contrast to previous analyses, our approach considers finiteness a primitive distinction explicitly expressed in verbal forms… read more