Syntactic Variation and Change
Edited by David Håkansson, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:1 (2017) iii, 148 pp.
David Håkansson
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Håkansson plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Articles
2017 Introducing syntactic variation and change Syntactic Variation and Change, Håkansson, David, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Introduction
2013 A variationist approach to syntactic change: The case of subordinate clause word order in the history of Swedish Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Auer, Peter, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), pp. 129–144 | Article
This article focuses on word order in subordinate clauses in the history of Swedish, mainly Old Swedish (c. 1225–1526) and Early Modern Swedish (1526–1732). In Old Swedish, subordinate clauses could have the same word order as main clauses with respect to the internal order between the finite verb… read more
2013 Null referential subjects in the history of Swedish Journal of Historical Linguistics 3:2, pp. 155–191 | Article
This article is concerned with null referential subjects in Old Swedish (ca. 1225–1526), and addresses the problem of why the scope for such subjects has been reduced during the history of Swedish. Within diachronic syntax it has been a common assumption that syntactic change is caused by changes… read more