The acquisition of compositional definiteness in Norwegian

This paper aim to explain why the prenominal definiteness marker found in modified structures only is acquired much later than the suffixal definite article in Norwegian. The coexistence of the two definiteness markers is the result of the so-called double definiteness phenomenon in Norwegian which...

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Main Author: Merete Anderssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008-02-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/132