While the Swedish negator inte may be doubled in a final clause-external position, in both standard Swedish and dialects, many dialects also allow a final, clause-internal particle (e, i or ai) in negated clauses. FNPs occur in a coherent area around the Baltic Sea, and in contrast with doubling… read more
This chapter contains a presentation and an analysis of Övdalian subject doubling. After discussing elicitation techniques and methods, I present the actual data. Next, I turn to the syntactic restrictions of the construction, demonstrating that a V2-context (i.e., a root context), an initial… read more
In modern Swedish, the word typ has several functions and meanings. Until about 1930 however, typ had only a nominal function – the other uses of typ have developed during the 20th century. In this article we track the changes of typ, from a noun to a preposition, and then to an adverb and to a… read more