Övdalian from 1909 to 2009
We present a number of morphological and syntactic properties that Övdalian is reported to have according to the literature. They are classified into four categories, of which we study in particular those two that make Övdalian stand out amongst the Scandinavian languages: the category of those features that Övdalian shares with the Insular Scandinavian languages, and the category of Övdalian innovations. We compare these with what we find in the Övdalian Speech Corpus, which contains searchable recordings from the 21st century. Interestingly, we find that the verbal morphology is robust, whereas case morphology is losing ground. Syntactic innovations like referential null subjects, negative concord, subject doubling, and lack of object shift are still present in the language.
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Read about it: Johannessen, Janne Bondi, Priestley, Joel, Hagen, Kristin, Åfarli, Tor Anders & Øystein Alexander Vangsnes. 2009. The Nordic Dialect Corpus. An advanced research tool. In Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA 2009 [NEALT Proceedings Series 4], Krisstiina Jokinen & Eckhard Bick (eds). Tartu: Tartu University.
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