Hans-Olav Enger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 981828 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hans-Olav Enger |
| PRENOMES | Hans-Olav |
| SOBRENOME | Enger |
| ASSINATURA | ENGER H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Meta-morphomic patterns in North Germanic
The paper presents examples of meta-morphomes (a kind of morphomic patterns, involving syncretisms) in North Germanic. There has been some debate over the notion of such patterns, and the aim is therefore to present relatively clear cases. Five cases are presented, involving inflection in verbs, nouns and adjectives. The syncretisms are all ‘unnatural’; they do not make much sense for syntax, semantics or phonology. While patterns that are obviou…
Type frequency is not the only factor that determines productivity, so the Tolerance Principle is not enough
Inflection classes that have many members often gain members from classes that have fewer. While this tendency is often pointed out in diachronic linguistics, the American psycholinguist Charles Yang (2016) goes further. He claims this to be always the case, so that minority classes cannot be productive at the expense of majority classes, and that productivity actually can be predicted. By this view, productivity is a direct function of type freq…
The loss of inflection as grammar complication
The loss of inflectional categories is often thought of as a type of simplification. In this paper we present a survey of phenomena involving the reduction of adjective agreement in Scandinavian, using examples from Norwegian, and discuss their diachronic origins, including a new account of the development of indeclinability in adjectives such as kry ‘proud’. These examples each involve lexically restricted non-canonical inflection – syncretism, …
Det umulige er mulig
Artikkelen tar for seg spørsmålet om defektivitet i grammatiske mønstre er en absolutt egenskap i seg sjøl. Nærmere bestemt undersøker vi adjektiver som angivelig mangler nøytrumsform og adjektiver som angivelig er be-grensa til predikativ eller attributiv posisjon. Ved hjelp av data fra Leksiko-grafisk bokmålskorpus argumenterer vi for at det er mer fornuftig å forkla-re slike defekte mønstre som konvensjonelt uvanlige snarere enn gramma-tisk um…
The semantics of Scandinavian pancake constructions
A classical topic in the syntax of the mainland Scandinavian languages is so-called pancake clauses where there seemingly is disagreement between the subject and the predicative adjective, as in Pannekaker er godt ‘Pancakes( f ): indf:pl be: prs good: n:sg ’; the subject is in the plural, whereas the predicative adjective is in the neuter singular. According to one of the several approaches, these clauses display a type of semantic agreement. Rec…
Scandinavian pancake sentences revisited
This paper defends the analysis of Scandinavian ‘pancake sentences’ as semantic or referential agreement (Enger 2004). Alternative analyses assuming that pancake sentences are to be analysed as syntactic agreement (Josefsson 2009), have some drawbacks. Notably, the distinction between different kinds of gender is not well motivated; the connection between different uses of the neuter is lost, and the use of ‘light verbs’ and of invisible elements…
Inflectional change, ‘sound laws’ and the autonomy of morphology
Traditional views of inflectional changes often run as follows: A morphological opposition expressed by affixes is disturbed by sound changes. It is then left to morphology to ‘clean up the mess’; morphology is merely reactive. If, however, morphology can operate “by itself” (Aronoff 1994, Carstairs-McCarthy 1994, 2001, 2010, Maiden 2004, 2005), one would not expect this classical scenario to be the entire truth. The present paper pursues the hyp…
Morphological theory and grammaticalisation
Definiteness, Gender, and Hybrids
In some Norwegian dialects, such as older Oslo dialect, the noun mamma ‘mother’ unexpectedly appears to be masculine. The Nordreisa dialect (Northern Norwegian) goes one step further. The word looks like it is masculine, but only in the definite form. This is an unusual “split” because gender mixture is normally based on number, not definiteness (but we find some few corroborative examples in other Norwegian dialects and different, but converging…
How do words change inflection class? Diachronic evidence from Norwegian
The role of core and non-core semantic rules in gender assignment
Scandinavian pancake sentences as semantic agreement
This paper deals with Scandinavian sentences where the predicative adjective apparently disagrees with its subject, such as pannekaker er godt ‘pancakes-pl. is good-neut.sg.’, vodka er sunt ‘vodka-masc. is healthy-neut.sg.’. In this paper, the use of neuter in such sentences is seen as a case of semantic agreement. Thereby, pancake sentences comply with Corbett's (1979) agreement hierarchy. The controllers in pancake sentences are low on the indi…
On the relation between gender and declension
This paper examines the relation between gender and declension in Norwegian. Traditionally, one has assumed that genders are the basis for predicting declensions in that language. More recently, it has been suggested that declensions are the basis for predicting genders — in all languages that have both. Diachronic data examined in this paper indicate that the relation between gender and declension is complex: For most Norwegian nouns, declension…
A possible constraint on non-affixal inflection
The Story of Scandinavian -S(t)retold
Article THE STORY OF SCANDINAVIAN -s(t)RETOLD: GRAMMATICALISING A CLITIC TO A DERIVATIONAL AFFIX was published on January 1, 2002 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 36, issue Historica-vol-23-1-2)
The Value of Cognitive Grammar in Typological Studies
This paper shows that Cognitive Grammar is valuable for typological studies. The Norwegian and Russian reflexive-middle-passive systems are analysed comprehensively and compared. Whereas Cognitive Grammar is compatible with the typological tradition (represented by Kemmer), it needs amendment in certain important respects. The main theoretical contribution of the paper is that the Cognitive Grammar notions of “instantiation”, “prototype”, “entren…
On substractive back-formation in Scandinavian nouns
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On substractive back-formation in Scandinavian nouns
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The Value of Cognitive Grammar in Typological Studies
This paper shows that Cognitive Grammar is valuable for typological studies. The Norwegian and Russian reflexive-middle-passive systems are analysed comprehensively and compared. Whereas Cognitive Grammar is compatible with the typological tradition (represented by Kemmer), it needs amendment in certain important respects. The main theoretical contribution of the paper is that the Cognitive Grammar notions of “instantiation”, “prototype”, “entren…
The Story of Scandinavian -S(t)retold
Article THE STORY OF SCANDINAVIAN -s(t)RETOLD: GRAMMATICALISING A CLITIC TO A DERIVATIONAL AFFIX was published on January 1, 2002 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 36, issue Historica-vol-23-1-2)
A possible constraint on non-affixal inflection
Scandinavian pancake sentences as semantic agreement
This paper deals with Scandinavian sentences where the predicative adjective apparently disagrees with its subject, such as pannekaker er godt ‘pancakes-pl. is good-neut.sg.’, vodka er sunt ‘vodka-masc. is healthy-neut.sg.’. In this paper, the use of neuter in such sentences is seen as a case of semantic agreement. Thereby, pancake sentences comply with Corbett's (1979) agreement hierarchy. The controllers in pancake sentences are low on the indi…
On the relation between gender and declension
This paper examines the relation between gender and declension in Norwegian. Traditionally, one has assumed that genders are the basis for predicting declensions in that language. More recently, it has been suggested that declensions are the basis for predicting genders — in all languages that have both. Diachronic data examined in this paper indicate that the relation between gender and declension is complex: For most Norwegian nouns, declension…
The role of core and non-core semantic rules in gender assignment
How do words change inflection class? Diachronic evidence from Norwegian
Definiteness, Gender, and Hybrids
In some Norwegian dialects, such as older Oslo dialect, the noun mamma ‘mother’ unexpectedly appears to be masculine. The Nordreisa dialect (Northern Norwegian) goes one step further. The word looks like it is masculine, but only in the definite form. This is an unusual “split” because gender mixture is normally based on number, not definiteness (but we find some few corroborative examples in other Norwegian dialects and different, but converging…
Scandinavian pancake sentences revisited
This paper defends the analysis of Scandinavian ‘pancake sentences’ as semantic or referential agreement (Enger 2004). Alternative analyses assuming that pancake sentences are to be analysed as syntactic agreement (Josefsson 2009), have some drawbacks. Notably, the distinction between different kinds of gender is not well motivated; the connection between different uses of the neuter is lost, and the use of ‘light verbs’ and of invisible elements…
Inflectional change, ‘sound laws’ and the autonomy of morphology
Traditional views of inflectional changes often run as follows: A morphological opposition expressed by affixes is disturbed by sound changes. It is then left to morphology to ‘clean up the mess’; morphology is merely reactive. If, however, morphology can operate “by itself” (Aronoff 1994, Carstairs-McCarthy 1994, 2001, 2010, Maiden 2004, 2005), one would not expect this classical scenario to be the entire truth. The present paper pursues the hyp…
Morphological theory and grammaticalisation
The semantics of Scandinavian pancake constructions
A classical topic in the syntax of the mainland Scandinavian languages is so-called pancake clauses where there seemingly is disagreement between the subject and the predicative adjective, as in Pannekaker er godt ‘Pancakes( f ): indf:pl be: prs good: n:sg ’; the subject is in the plural, whereas the predicative adjective is in the neuter singular. According to one of the several approaches, these clauses display a type of semantic agreement. Rec…
Det umulige er mulig
Artikkelen tar for seg spørsmålet om defektivitet i grammatiske mønstre er en absolutt egenskap i seg sjøl. Nærmere bestemt undersøker vi adjektiver som angivelig mangler nøytrumsform og adjektiver som angivelig er be-grensa til predikativ eller attributiv posisjon. Ved hjelp av data fra Leksiko-grafisk bokmålskorpus argumenterer vi for at det er mer fornuftig å forkla-re slike defekte mønstre som konvensjonelt uvanlige snarere enn gramma-tisk um…
The loss of inflection as grammar complication
The loss of inflectional categories is often thought of as a type of simplification. In this paper we present a survey of phenomena involving the reduction of adjective agreement in Scandinavian, using examples from Norwegian, and discuss their diachronic origins, including a new account of the development of indeclinability in adjectives such as kry ‘proud’. These examples each involve lexically restricted non-canonical inflection – syncretism, …
Type frequency is not the only factor that determines productivity, so the Tolerance Principle is not enough
Inflection classes that have many members often gain members from classes that have fewer. While this tendency is often pointed out in diachronic linguistics, the American psycholinguist Charles Yang (2016) goes further. He claims this to be always the case, so that minority classes cannot be productive at the expense of majority classes, and that productivity actually can be predicted. By this view, productivity is a direct function of type freq…
Meta-morphomic patterns in North Germanic
The paper presents examples of meta-morphomes (a kind of morphomic patterns, involving syncretisms) in North Germanic. There has been some debate over the notion of such patterns, and the aim is therefore to present relatively clear cases. Five cases are presented, involving inflection in verbs, nouns and adjectives. The syncretisms are all ‘unnatural’; they do not make much sense for syntax, semantics or phonology. While patterns that are obviou…
Philosophy (17 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (17 obras) · Linguistics (16 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Noun (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Mathematics (8 obras) · Inflection (7 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 obras)