Torodd Kinn

List of John Benjamins publications for which Torodd Kinn plays a role.

Title

Academic Voices: Across languages and disciplines

Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Torodd Kinn

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 148] 2006. x, 309 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

In Norwegian, the noun vis ‘manner’ is commonly used to head compounds. It is the historical source of several suffixes: derivational suffixes in adverbs and adjectives and an inflectional suffix on measure nouns. Thus, compounding has given rise to both derivation and inflection. These… read more
Kinn, Torodd 2023 Chapter 5. Meaning integration in pseudocoordinationConstructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (eds.), pp. 114–144 | Chapter
Pseudocoordination in Scandinavian languages looks like VP coordination but has a number of characteristics which have led some researchers to regard it as not representing coordination. Research on pseudocoordination has often focused on grammaticalization of the first verb. But most… read more
Kinn, Torodd 2018 Pseudocoordination in Norwegian: Degrees of grammaticalization and constructional variantsGrammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 75–106 | Chapter
Pseudocoordination in the Scandinavian languages is often claimed to involve grammaticalization. Such coordination is exemplified by Norwegian sitte og lese ‘be reading’ (literally: ‘sit and read’), gå og se ‘go and see’, and løpe rundt og leke ‘run around and play’, where the first verb in some… read more