Sune Gregersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 8840652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sune Gregersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sune |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregersen |
| SIGNATURE | GREGERSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3387-4340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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…
An evidential perfect in Wangerooge Frisian
This paper analyses the use of verbal tense forms in Wangerooge Frisian, a West Germanic language spoken on the Wadden Sea island Wangerooge until the early twentieth century. Specifically, the use of the present, past, and perfect constructions is investigated in a corpus of texts from the nineteenth century. It is argued that the Wangerooge Frisian perfect could be used as a non-firsthand evidential strategy marking the propositional content as…
Regularized modal verbs in Middle English dialects
The article investigates an overlooked development in the history of the English modals, namely the regularization of their plural inflection in Middle English (e.g. prs.ind.pl shulleþ for expected shullen ). Using the LAEME and eLALME atlases and a number of electronic corpora, I document the frequency and dialectal distribution of such regularized modal verbs. It is shown that regularized shall was fairly common in Late Middle English, regulari…
Restrictions on past-tense passives in Late Modern Danish
This article investigates a case of lexical restrictions on a voice construction, specifically Danish past-tense passives. Present-Day Danish has both a periphrastic and an inflectional passive construction, but in the past tense, most ablaut (strong) verbs cannot form the inflectional passive (e.g. ∗ \ast skreves ‘was written’, ∗ \ast bares ‘was carried’). Various explanations for these restrictions have been proposed in the literature, but thei…
Language death, modality, and functional explanations
The article is an in-depth review of Petar Kehayov’s monograph The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic (De Gruyter Mouton, 2017). The book investigates the development of mood and modality in four moribund Finnic languages spoken in the Russian Federation: Votic, Ingrian, Central Lude, and Eastern Seto. After a detailed summary of the book, I discuss a number of issues relating to (a) the semantic map used to a…
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Language death, modality, and functional explanations
The article is an in-depth review of Petar Kehayov’s monograph The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic (De Gruyter Mouton, 2017). The book investigates the development of mood and modality in four moribund Finnic languages spoken in the Russian Federation: Votic, Ingrian, Central Lude, and Eastern Seto. After a detailed summary of the book, I discuss a number of issues relating to (a) the semantic map used to a…
Regularized modal verbs in Middle English dialects
The article investigates an overlooked development in the history of the English modals, namely the regularization of their plural inflection in Middle English (e.g. prs.ind.pl shulleþ for expected shullen ). Using the LAEME and eLALME atlases and a number of electronic corpora, I document the frequency and dialectal distribution of such regularized modal verbs. It is shown that regularized shall was fairly common in Late Middle English, regulari…
Restrictions on past-tense passives in Late Modern Danish
This article investigates a case of lexical restrictions on a voice construction, specifically Danish past-tense passives. Present-Day Danish has both a periphrastic and an inflectional passive construction, but in the past tense, most ablaut (strong) verbs cannot form the inflectional passive (e.g. ∗ \ast skreves ‘was written’, ∗ \ast bares ‘was carried’). Various explanations for these restrictions have been proposed in the literature, but thei…
An evidential perfect in Wangerooge Frisian
This paper analyses the use of verbal tense forms in Wangerooge Frisian, a West Germanic language spoken on the Wadden Sea island Wangerooge until the early twentieth century. Specifically, the use of the present, past, and perfect constructions is investigated in a corpus of texts from the nineteenth century. It is argued that the Wangerooge Frisian perfect could be used as a non-firsthand evidential strategy marking the propositional content as…
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…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Danish (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · Verb (2 works)