Briana Van Epps

Biographic Data

ID9287290
NAMEBriana Van Epps
GIVEN NAMESBriana
FAMILY NAMEVan Epps
SIGNATUREVAN EPPS B
AFFILIATIONSLund University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • Gender Assignment in Six North Scandinavian Languages

    Open AccessBriana Van Epps, Gerd Carling et al.ARTICLEJournal of Germanic Linguistics2021

    This study addresses gender assignment in six North Scandinavian varieties with a three-gender system: Old Norse, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Old Swedish, Nysvenska, Jamtlandic, and Elfdalian. Focusing on gender variation and change, we investigate the role of various factors in gender change. Using the contemporary Swedish varieties Jamtlandic and Elfdalian as a basis, we compare gender assignment in other North Scandinavian languages, tracing the evol…

  • Patterns of gender assignment in the Jamtlandic variety of Scandinavian

    Open AccessBriana Van Epps, Gerd CarlingARTICLENordic Journal of Linguistics2020

    In this study, we present an analysis of gender assignment tendencies in Jamtlandic, a language variety of Sweden, using a word list of 1029 items obtained from fieldwork. Most research on gender assignment in the Scandinavian languages focuses on the standard languages (Steinmetz 1985; Källström 1996; Trosterud 2001, 2006) and Norwegian dialects (Enger 2011, Kvinlaug 2011, Enger & Corbett 2012). However, gender assignment principles for Swedish …