Modern Swedish is an article language which in the course of its history has developed both definite and indefinite articles. The present study focuses on the grammaticalization of the postponed definite -IN, etymologically the demonstrative pronoun hinn 'yon' and the indefinite EN, whose source is the numeral 'one'. Both grammaticalizations originate with textual uses of the forms: the demonstrative to mark anaphora and the numeral to mark new, persistent referents. The processes are interdependent: the indefinite article does not grammaticalize before the grammaticalization of the definite has been triggered and its development restricts the spread of the definite article to specific uses. Since both grammaticalizations have the same sour...
The informants produce complex NPs already in their first narratives. The form of NPs poses signific...
Swedish is well known for the fact that it appears to show two reflexes of definiteness in its defin...
The Mainland Scandinavian languages have variants of two indefinite singular articles, en (`a'/`an')...
The definite article in the Modern Nordic languages is a suffix, etymologically related to a demonst...
The definite article in the Modern Nordic languages is a suffix, etymologically related to a demonst...
The present paper studies the earliest stages of the grammaticalization of indefinite article in Old...
This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icela...
The present paper studies the earliest stages of the grammaticalization of indefinite article in Old...
Modern Swedish uses both a free, pre-adjectival, definite article and a definite suffix on the noun ...
The study investigates the development of definiteness in two groups of Rus-sian-speaking learners o...
This article takes up the much debated questions of how and when the definite forms of nouns emerged...
Swedish is well known for the fact that it appears to show two reflexes of definiteness in its defin...
The article deals with the extension of definite markers into the domain of indefinite NPs in Scandi...
There are two primary goals for this study – first, to analyse definiteness and article use in spont...
This paper deals with the development of three different definiteness markers in Old Scandinavian: t...
The informants produce complex NPs already in their first narratives. The form of NPs poses signific...
Swedish is well known for the fact that it appears to show two reflexes of definiteness in its defin...
The Mainland Scandinavian languages have variants of two indefinite singular articles, en (`a'/`an')...
The definite article in the Modern Nordic languages is a suffix, etymologically related to a demonst...
The definite article in the Modern Nordic languages is a suffix, etymologically related to a demonst...
The present paper studies the earliest stages of the grammaticalization of indefinite article in Old...
This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icela...
The present paper studies the earliest stages of the grammaticalization of indefinite article in Old...
Modern Swedish uses both a free, pre-adjectival, definite article and a definite suffix on the noun ...
The study investigates the development of definiteness in two groups of Rus-sian-speaking learners o...
This article takes up the much debated questions of how and when the definite forms of nouns emerged...
Swedish is well known for the fact that it appears to show two reflexes of definiteness in its defin...
The article deals with the extension of definite markers into the domain of indefinite NPs in Scandi...
There are two primary goals for this study – first, to analyse definiteness and article use in spont...
This paper deals with the development of three different definiteness markers in Old Scandinavian: t...
The informants produce complex NPs already in their first narratives. The form of NPs poses signific...
Swedish is well known for the fact that it appears to show two reflexes of definiteness in its defin...
The Mainland Scandinavian languages have variants of two indefinite singular articles, en (`a'/`an')...