Eva Skafte Jensen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Eva Skafte Jensen plays a role.

Title

Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003

Edited by Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 312 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics

Articles

Thode Hougaard, Tina, Eva Skafte Jensen, Marianne Rathje, Jonathan White and Camilla Wide 2023 Chapter 3. Variations in opening and closing forms in email correspondence in Danish and Swedish It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole and Roel Vismans (eds.), pp. 61–91 | Chapter

In this study, we investigate how differences and similarities in opening and closing greetings in professional emails in academia manifest themselves in Danish and Swedish. Our data consist of a corpus of 595 emails (primary data) and two surveys with 1836 respondents (supportive data). An… read more

Skafte Jensen, Eva 2016 The history of nominative -er in Danish and Swedish: A case of exaptation? Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 287–316 | Article

A much cited example of exaptation is the development whereby the old case marker of the nominative in the masculine singular -er evolves into a derivative suffix changing adjectives into nouns in Swedish (Norde 2001, 2002, 2009; Heine 2003: 168; Narrog 2007). Recent studies based on Old and Middle… read more

Skafte Jensen, Eva 2003 Case in Middle Danish: A double content system Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 221–236 | Article