Kari Kinn

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

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL)

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, B. Richard Page and Laura Catharine Smith

ISSN 2452-2120

Articles

Kinn, Kari 2017 Null arguments in old Norwegian: Interaction between pronouns and the functional categories of the clause Register Variation and Syntactic Theory, Massam, Diane and Tim Stowell (eds.), pp. 309–346 | Article

In this paper I propose a new analysis of null arguments in Old Norwegian. I argue that the option of null realization in Old Norwegian correlates with a distinction between φP and DP pronouns in the sense of Déchaine & Wiltschko (2002), and that this distribution can be captured by a version of… read more

Kinn, Kari 2014 The cognitive status of null subject referents in Old Norse and their Modern Norwegian counterparts Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 173–200 | Article

This paper investigates the distribution of pronouns in Old Norse and Modern Norwegian, focusing mainly on Old Norse referential null subjects and their counterparts in Modern Norwegian. The theoretical starting point is the Givenness Hierarchy of Gundel et al. (1993), which predicts that null and… read more