Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language

• Autor principal: Janne Bondi Johannessen (auth)
• Otros Autores: Kristine Bentzen (auth), Henrik Rosenkvist (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2015
• Colección: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
• Materias: theoretical linguistics; Sweden; Övdalian language; historical linguistics; syntax
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative isolat...