Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian
Edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 1] 2017. v, 343 pp.
Caroline Heycock
List of John Benjamins publications for which Caroline Heycock plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art
Edited by Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2019 Restrictions on “Low” person agreement in Dutch specificational copular constructions Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, Berns, Janine and Elena Tribushinina (eds.), pp. 130–146 | Article
Agreement between the verb and its arguments as a predominant phenomenon in language has received major attention in the theoretical literature. One specific aspect under discussion concerns differences between number and person agreement, with the latter being the more restricted one (restricted… read more
2017 Variation in copular agreement in Insular Scandinavian Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 233–276 | Chapter
This paper explores the syntax of agreement in Insular Scandinavian in copular clauses with two potential goals for agreement. Data from three production experiments – one in Faroese and two in Icelandic – establish several new facts. First, in both languages agreement with the second nominal (DP2)… read more
2017 Introduction Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2012 Pseudo-coordinations in Faroese Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 259–280 | Article
In this article we describe the system of pseudo-coordinations in Faroese − coordinations in the verbal system in which the second conjunct appears in fact to be subordinated to the first − in the light of previous discussions of this phenomenon in Scandinavian. We discuss pseudo-coordinations −… read more
1992 Layers of Predication and the Syntax of the Copula Predication, De Caluwé, Johan, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe (eds.), pp. 95–123 | Article