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The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals
ISSN: 1383-4924
SJR: 19

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Giving content to expletive es in German

Hinterhölzl, Roland

2024 The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

doi:10.1007/s10828-023-09146-2

The present paper proposes an alternative analysis of so-called expletive es in German. It is argued that es has semantic content that serves to anchor the utterance in the context. In particular, I argue that es constitutes a weak demonstrative element binding a situation argument. The account...
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The acquisition of grammatical alternates: a comparison of Italian and Norwegian possessives

Velnić, Marta

2024 The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

doi:10.1007/s10828-023-09150-6

Possessive alternates (prenominal and postnominal) have mirrored properties in Italian and Norwegian when taking into consideration frequency, derivation, and markedness; i.e., the variant that is base-generated in one language is considered the derived one in the other language. Thus, in both...
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The morphosyntax of Gothic preverb compounds: incorporation and applicativisation

Tan, Tamisha L.

2024 The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

doi:10.1007/s10828-024-09151-z

Gothic preverb compounds illustrate several interesting characteristics, including multiple preverb stacking, idiomatisation, tmesis (i.e., separation by clitics), and P-copying (i.e., multiple pronunciation of the preverb). This paper is a close examination of the morphosyntax of these...
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Root suppletion in Swedish as contextual allomorphy

Adamson, Luke James

2024 The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

doi:10.1007/s10828-023-09148-0

The present article provides a case study of the forms corresponding to the meaning ‘small’ in Swedish, which exhibit a number-based suppletive alternation: descriptively, liten appears in the singular while små appears in the plural. We demonstrate that this alternation is best treated as...

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