An introduction to the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC)
In this paper, the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) is introduced, described and briefly discussed. The SSAC was first observed in the 1940s, and it has not yet been subject to any detailed linguistic analysis. The usage of the SSAC has been examined in a corpus study and via a questionnaire, and...
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| description | In this paper, the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) is introduced, described and briefly discussed. The SSAC was first observed in the 1940s, and it has not yet been subject to any detailed linguistic analysis. The usage of the SSAC has been examined in a corpus study and via a questionnaire, and the results indicate, but do not confirm, that it truly is a specifically south Swedish syntactic construction. It appears in two main variants (with and without an adverbial expressing speaker attitude) and it displays a number of interesting syntactic properties (the subject must be pronominal, direct objects are disallowed, etc). From a typological perspective, there seem to be equivalent constructions in at least Japanese (no da) and English (it is that). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d19fa25ee84940fab59931a8ec4a31102022-12-22T03:11:15ZengSeptentrio Academic PublishingNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics1503-85992007-04-0134110.7557/12.9792An introduction to the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC)Henrik Rosenkvist0The Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund UniversityIn this paper, the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) is introduced, described and briefly discussed. The SSAC was first observed in the 1940s, and it has not yet been subject to any detailed linguistic analysis. The usage of the SSAC has been examined in a corpus study and via a questionnaire, and the results indicate, but do not confirm, that it truly is a specifically south Swedish syntactic construction. It appears in two main variants (with and without an adverbial expressing speaker attitude) and it displays a number of interesting syntactic properties (the subject must be pronominal, direct objects are disallowed, etc). From a typological perspective, there seem to be equivalent constructions in at least Japanese (no da) and English (it is that).https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/97cleft constructioncorpus studyEnglishJapanesequestionnaireSouth Swedish Apparent Cleft |
| spellingShingle | Henrik Rosenkvist An introduction to the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics cleft construction corpus study English Japanese questionnaire South Swedish Apparent Cleft |
| title | An introduction to the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) |
| title_full | An introduction to the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) |
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| title_short | An introduction to the South Swedish Apparent Cleft (SSAC) |
| title_sort | introduction to the south swedish apparent cleft ssac |
| topic | cleft construction corpus study English Japanese questionnaire South Swedish Apparent Cleft |
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