In this paper we will discuss cross-linguistic variation in semantic entailment patterns in causa- tive alternations. Previous work has probed this issue with data from elicited semantic judge- ments on paired linguistic forms, often involving linguistic negation and contradiction. We contribute to the debate in the form of a related psycholinguistic experiment that taps into direct judgements ...

There is a fair amount of variation between and within the Scandinavian varieties with respect to binding, anaphors and co­reference restrictions on pronouns and noun phrases. The variation between the languages has been discussed and analyzed in e.g. Holmberg and Platzack (1995) and Thráinsson (2008), and more fine­grained variation within the languages has been discussed by e.g. Tania Strahan ...

The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013) proposes that acquiring properties of the functional morphology is the most challenging part of learning a second language. In the experiment presented here, the predictions of this hypothesis are tested in the second language (L2) English of Norwegian native speakers. Two constructions are investigated that do not match in English and Norwegian: One ...

In the ScanDiaSyn­survey, certain aspects of double object constructions were investigated. For double object verbs in the active diathesis, the focus was on non­selected or "free" indirect objects. More specifically, the question focused on was to which extent non­prototypical ditransitive verbs can take a recipient arguments realized as noun phrases in a position before the direct object. The ...

Det finnes betydelig regional og sosiolingvistisk variasjon i genusssystemet inorsk, hovedsakelig når det gjelder hunkjønnskategorien. Mange morsmåls-talere av norsk har et robust tregenussystem (hankjønn, hunkjønn og intetkjønn),mens andre har et system med kun to genus (felleskjønn og intetkjønn), der alleeller de fleste hunkjønnsformene er erstattet av hankjønnsformer. Uavhengig avdialekt er alle ...

In most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development from three to two genders, involving the loss of feminine) may be refected in processing. We carried out a gender decision task in which speakers were presented with 32 nouns ...

This section covers a wide range of phenomena that are related to what we can call the middle field of the clause. We have included chapters that deal both with the placement of arguments in the middle field (excluding argument structure inside the verb phrase, which is dealt with in the section on the verb phrase, see Lundquist 2014a), and chapters about auxiliaries and verbmorphology. The topic ...

This paper discusses different types of zero-derived de-verbal nominals with a focus on result nominals, simple event nominals and complex event nominals. I argue that zero-derived nominals should be treated on a par with overtly derived nominals. I claim that verbs that have related zero-derived nominals have nominal gender features in their lexical entries in addition to verbal features, like Proc ...