Torben Juel Jensen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Torben Juel Jensen plays a role.
Articles
2016 What do(es) you mean? the pragmatics of generic second person pronouns in modern spoken Danish The referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences, De Cock, Barbara and Bettina Kluge (eds.), pp. 417–446 | Article
In modern Danish, the most frequently used pronoun for generic reference is man, developed from the noun man(d) ‘man’. Recently, though, the second person singular pronoun du has gained ground, in parallel to similar recent developments in other languages. A large-scale, longitudinal study of the… read more
2015 Word order variation and foregrounding of complement clauses: Exploring the meaning of sentence adverbials as signals of word order Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. 69–86 | Article
Through mixed models analyses of complement clauses in a corpus of spoken Danish we examine the role of sentence adverbials in relation to a word order distinction in Scandinavian signalled by the relative position of sentence adverbials and finite verb (V>Adv vs. Adv>V). The type of sentence… read more