Marie Herget Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Herget Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie Herget |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1319-1957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A question of clefts and a clefting of questions
Presupposition and focus are expressed by cleft constructions in Danish like in many other Indo-European languages. When these two functions need to be mapped onto an interrogative construction, they can be expressed by a content interrogative (hvem gjorde det ‘Who did it?’). However, as a special possibility in Danish (as well as in other Scandinavian languages) the functions of interrogativity, presupposition and focus can also readily be expre…
Two diminutives in Viöl Danish
This paper analyses the diminutive system of Viöl Danish, a now extinct Scandinavian dialect once spoken in the former Duchy of Schleswig (Northern Germany). We argue that the dialect had two productive diminutive constructions: a suffixal diminutive in - kǝn and a ‘gender-shift’ diminutive involving only a change in grammatical gender. While the two constructions shared the core meaning ‘small’, they had different semantic extensions and connota…
Justifying threats
All verbal threats are phrased and communicated by a sender that may be represented within the threatening message in the form of first-person pronouns (1PPs). Seeking to understand the sender's self-representation in linguistic threats better, we have developed a coding scheme for what we term discourse functions in threatening messages and applied it to utterances containing a 1PP, extracted from a corpus of written, Danish threats. Unsurprisin…
Grammar is background in sentence processing
Boye and Harder (2012) claim that the grammatical–lexical distinction has to do with discourse prominence: lexical elements can convey discursively primary (or foreground) information, whereas grammatical elements cannot (outside corrective contexts). This paper reports two experiments that test this claim. Experiment 1 was a letter detection study, in which readers were instructed to mark specific letters in the text. Experiment 2 was a text-cha…
Foregrounding of subordinate clauses by word order
In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the "subordinate clause" word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of "main clause" word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this "Main Clause Phenomena" (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important …
Foregrounding of subordinate clauses by word order
In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the "subordinate clause" word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of "main clause" word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this "Main Clause Phenomena" (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important …
Foregrounding of subordinate clauses by word order
In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the "subordinate clause" word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of "main clause" word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this "Main Clause Phenomena" (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important …
Grammar is background in sentence processing
Boye and Harder (2012) claim that the grammatical–lexical distinction has to do with discourse prominence: lexical elements can convey discursively primary (or foreground) information, whereas grammatical elements cannot (outside corrective contexts). This paper reports two experiments that test this claim. Experiment 1 was a letter detection study, in which readers were instructed to mark specific letters in the text. Experiment 2 was a text-cha…
Justifying threats
All verbal threats are phrased and communicated by a sender that may be represented within the threatening message in the form of first-person pronouns (1PPs). Seeking to understand the sender's self-representation in linguistic threats better, we have developed a coding scheme for what we term discourse functions in threatening messages and applied it to utterances containing a 1PP, extracted from a corpus of written, Danish threats. Unsurprisin…
A question of clefts and a clefting of questions
Presupposition and focus are expressed by cleft constructions in Danish like in many other Indo-European languages. When these two functions need to be mapped onto an interrogative construction, they can be expressed by a content interrogative (hvem gjorde det ‘Who did it?’). However, as a special possibility in Danish (as well as in other Scandinavian languages) the functions of interrogativity, presupposition and focus can also readily be expre…
Two diminutives in Viöl Danish
This paper analyses the diminutive system of Viöl Danish, a now extinct Scandinavian dialect once spoken in the former Duchy of Schleswig (Northern Germany). We argue that the dialect had two productive diminutive constructions: a suffixal diminutive in - kǝn and a ‘gender-shift’ diminutive involving only a change in grammatical gender. While the two constructions shared the core meaning ‘small’, they had different semantic extensions and connota…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Danish (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sentence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)