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Incongruent pronominal case in the Swedish dialect of Västra Nyland (Finland)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2013

Henrik Jørgensen
Henrik Jørgensen*
Affiliation:
Department of Aesthetics and Communication, University of Aarhus, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark. norhj@hum.au.dk
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Abstract

This paper reports on field work conducted during 1994 in Västra Nyland (Finland) in order to obtain independent and current documentation of the incongruent case forms in the dialect, as reported by Lundström (1939). The data collected substantiated the existence of incongruent case forms in the dialect, but the actual use of such forms could not be traced any longer. Due to this, several details in the actual use of certain incongruency types could not be clarified. The loss of case incongruency in this dialect area raises the question of how a vernacular can change such a grammatical feature. According to Emonds (1986), such losses cannot be remedied, but this is exactly the case here. The changing status of a modern Scandinavian dialect seems to be the only way to explain this change.

Keywords

case incongruencydialect statuslanguage acquisitionlanguage change
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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 35 , Special Issue 3: Case Variation and Change in the Nordic Languages , December 2012 , pp. 251 - 268
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2013

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