Table of contents
Chapter 1.
Introduction
Nordic languages and construction grammar
1
Chapter 2.
Life at the intersection
The lateral relations of
han mannen,
mannen, and
den mannen
24
Chapter 3.
One man’s [ɕœtː] is another man’s [kʰøð̞]
Sound correspondence constructions in Interscandinavian
decoding
55
Chapter 4.
The Devil is in the schema
A constructional perspective on Swedish taboo-avoiding
strategies
81
Chapter 5.
Meaning integration in pseudocoordination
114
Chapter 6.
Construction grammar in domain-specific discourse
A contrastive analysis of
existential constructions in
Swedish, Norwegian and Dutch weather reports
145
Chapter 7.
The entrenchment of semi-schematic time constructions by German foreign
language learners of Swedish
179
Chapter 8.
Danish verb prefixes and the schematizing transitive prefix
construction
212
Chapter 9.
Minimizers as negative reinforcers in Norwegian
247
Index
277