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BOOKS

forthcoming: Language contact -- New Perspectives(co-edited with Cornelius Hasselblatt & Bob de Jonge). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2009: Degrammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2004: Up and down the cline -- the nature of grammaticalization ed. by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde & Harry Perridon. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

1997: The history of the genitive in Swedish. A case study in degrammaticalization. Dissertation, University of Amsterdam.

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ARTICLES

Note on pfd-files: In order to be able to read the downloadbable papers in pdf-format, you will need a recent version of Adobe Reader (which can be downloaded here), otherwise some of the diacritic characters I use will not be visible.

Papers in preparation. Comments welcome!

2009a. Degrammaticalization: three common controversies. To be published in What's new in grammaticalization? by Ekkehard König, Elke Gehweiler & Katerina Stathi. (pdf of penultimate version)

2009b. Lehmann's parameters revisited. Submitted for review to the proceedings of New reflections on grammaticalization 4. (pdf)

Published papers

2008. East Scandinavian på; a preposition of the ‘third kind’. In Kees Dekker, Alasdair MacDonald & Hermann Niebaum (eds) Northern voices. Essays on Old Germanic and related topics offered to Professor Tette Hofstra (= Germania Latina VI), 383-398. Leuven: Peeters. (pdf of final draft)

2006a. Demarcating degrammaticalization: the Swedish s-genitive revisited. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 29:2, 201-238. [link to NjL website]

2006b. Van suffix tot telwoord tot bijwoord: degrammaticalisering en (re)grammaticalisering van tig [From suffix to numeral to adverb: degrammaticalization and (re)grammaticalization of Dutch tig. TABU 35:1/2, 33-60. [pdf of final draft]

2005: Adverb och adjektiv på -vis i svenskan [Swedish adverbs and adjectives in -vis]. In Gunilla Byrman, Jan Einarsson, Solveig Hammarbäck, Maria Lindgren & Per Stille Svenskans Beskrivning 27, 233-245. Växjö: Växjö University Press. [pdf of final draft]

2004: Introduction (with Olga Fischer & Harry Perridon). In Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde & Harry Perridon (eds) Up and down the cline – the nature of grammaticalization. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-16.

2002: The final stages of grammaticalization: affixhood and beyond. In Ilse Wischer & Gabriela Diewald (eds) New reflections on grammaticalization. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 45-65.

2001a: Deflexion as a counterdirectional factor in grammatical change. In: Language Sciences 23:2-3, 231-264.

2001b: The loss of lexical case in Swedish. In Jan Terje Faarlund (ed.) Grammatical relations in change. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 241-272.

2001c: The history of the genitive in Swedish — the full story. A reply to Lars-Olof Delsing. In: Nordic journal of linguistics 24:1, 107-118.

2000a: The grammaticalization of adpositions in the history of Swedish. In: Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (ed.) Proceedings of The Xth Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics. Reykjavík: Institute of Linguistics, 177-187.

2000b: Nya perspektiv på de medellågtyska lånordens böjning i fornsvenskan [New perspectives on the inflection of Middle Low German loan-words in Old Swedish]. In: Ernst Håkon Jahr (ed.) Språkkontakt — Innverknaden frå nedertysk på andre nordeuropeiske språk [Language contact. Low German influence on other Northern European languages] (= Nord 2000:19). København: Nordisk Ministerråd, 217-234.

1999: Förlust av kasus och sekundära prepositioner i fornsvenskan [Deflexion and secondary adpositions in Old Swedish]. In: TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek [Journal of Scandinavian studies] 20:2, 25-64.

1998: Grammaticalization versus reanalysis. The case of possessive constructions in Germanic. In: Richard M. Hogg & Linda van Bergen (eds) Historical Linguistics 1995 II: Germanic Linguistics. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 211-222.

1997a: Från kasusändelse till enklitisk determinator: genitivens historia i svenskan [From case ending to enclitic determiner: the history of the genitive in Swedish]. In: Patrik Åström (ed.) Studier i svensk språkhistoria 4 [Studies in Swedish language history 4]. Stockholm: Institutionen för nordiska språk, 147-154.

1997b: Middle Low German - Middle Scandinavian language contact and morphological simplification. In: Multilingua 16:4, 389-409.

1995: The development of case marking in Swedish. In: Per Bærentzen (ed.) Aspekte der Sprachbeschreibung. Akten des 29. Linguistischen Kolloquiums 5. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 165-168.

1994: De lågtyska lånorden och kasussystemets förenkling i svenskan [Middle Low German loan-words and deflexion in Swedish]. In: U.B. Kotsinas & J. Helgander (eds) Dialektkontakt, språkkontakt och språkförändring i Norden [Dialect contact, language contact and language change in Scandinavia]. Stockholm: Institutionen för nordiska språk, 98-106.

1990: Koppelwerkwoorden in het Ndjuka [Copula in Ndjuka]. Ms., Department of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam.

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REVIEWS

fc. Review of Laurel J. Brinton & Elizabeth Closs Traugott Lexicalization and language change. In: Language.

2003: Review of J.T. Faarlund Språk i  endring. Indre norsk språkhistorie. 2003. Oslo: Novus Forlag. In: Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek 24:2, 271-282.

2002a: Review of Barry J. Blake Case. Second edition, 2001. In: LINGUIST LIST 13-126. URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-126.html

2002b: Review of L. Koelmans Het Nederlands van Michiel de Ruyter. Morfologie, woordvorming, syntaxis, 2001. In: Mededelingenblad van de Vereniging van Oudgermanisten 16:2, 19-21.

2001: Review of Thorsten Andersson, Eva Brylla & Anita Jacobson-Widding (eds) Personnamn och social indentitet. In: Naamkunde 33:2, 237-245.

1999a: Review of  Michael P. Barnes The Norn language of Orkney and Shetland, 1998. In: Iros. International review of Scandinavian studies, 9.

1999b: Review of Rolf H. Bremmer et al. (eds) Approaches to Old Frisian philology, 1998. In: Iros. International review of Scandinavian studies, 7-8.

1999c: Review of  Cecilia Falk Fornsvenska upplevarverb, 1997. In: Iros. International review of Scandinavian studies, 18-19.

1999d: Review of Arne Torp Nordiske språk i nordisk og germansk perspektiv, 1998. In: Iros. International review of Scandinavian studies, 91.

1998: Review of Kurt Braunmüller (ed.) Niederdeutsch und die skandinavischen Sprachen II, 1995. In: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 50, 247-252.

1994: Review of K. Braunmüller & W. Diercks (eds) Niederdeutsch und die skandinavischen Sprachen I, 1993. In: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 40, 219-223.

1993: Review of L. Elmevik & K.E. Schöndorf (eds) Niederdeutsch in Skandinavien III, 1989. In: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 37, 216-221.

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DOWNLOADABLE PRESENTATIONS

 

 

2007a: "Degrammaticalization in Scandinavian", presented at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg,  January 24, 2007 [ppt]

 

2007b: "Epistemic adverbs at the interface of lexicalization and grammaticalization", presented at TIN-day, University of Utrecht, February 3, 2007 [ppt]

 

2007c: "Three common misunderstandings about degrammaticalization", presented at What's new in grammaticalization? Freie Universität Berlin, May 11-12, 2007 [ppt]

 

2006a: "The diachrony of derivation", presented at TABU-day, University of Groningen,  June 2, 2006 [ppt]

 

2006b: "The grammaticalization of adverbs -- two case studies" presented at the Grammaticalization Colloquium at the University of Fribourg, October 3 , 2006 [ppt]

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POPULAR

2007a: Skåder glasenom på bordenom i Krogenom: naamvallen als stijlmiddel [Case marking as a stylistic device].  Huginn ok Muninn (our students' magazine) 2007:5, 18-23  [pdf of final draft]

2007b: Hur böjs Astrid Lindgrens hjältar? Empirisk språkforskning i ett nötskal [How are Astrid Lindgren's heroes inflected? Empirically based linguistic research in a nutshell]. Huginn ok Muninn 2007:6, [pdf of final draft]

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