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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Old Norse; for discussion, see Section 2.2.1.1 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: mentioned in multiple sources
- Current bibliographic coverage: essentially complete
- Total references: 17
- Last updated: December 2022, minor changes and reorganization from dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.1.1
Summary
Research on modern pseudocoordination in mainland Scandinavia has traced similar usage to during or following the Old Norse period, although it does not appear to have been a prominent feature throughout the Old Norse period. Compare also Icelandic, including historical usage.
Possible pseudocoordination in Old Norse
Coseriu, Eugenio. 1966. «Tomo y me voy» Ein Problem vergleichender europäischer Syntax. Vox romanica: Annales helvetici explorandis linguis romanicis destinati 25. 13–55.
Coseriu, Eugenio. 1977. «Tomo y me voy»: Un problema de sintaxis comparada europea. In Estudios de lingüística románica, 79–151. Madrid: Editorial Gredos.
Ekberg, Lena. 1993. The Cognitive Basis of the Meaning and Function of Cross-Linguistic TAKE and V. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 8. 21–42. https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.8.03ekb [Page 21]
Hilpert, Martin & Christian Koops. 2008. A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates. Diachronica 25(2). 242–261. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.25.2.06hil
Holm, Gösta. 1958. Syntaxgeografiska studier över två nordiska verb. Uppsala & Wiesbaden: Lundequist & Harrassowitz. [Pages 190–212,230–231]
Josefsson, Gunlög. 1991. Pseudocoordination - A VP + VP coordination. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 47. 130–156. [Page 154]
Lewy, Ernst. 1951. Ein Nachtrag. Finnisch-ugrische Forschungen 30. 284–288. [Pages 286–287]
Hesse, Andrea. 2009. Zur Grammatikalisierung der Pseudokoordination im Norwegischen und in den anderen skandinavischen Sprachen. Tübingen: Francke. [Page 130]
Sandøy, Helge. 1986. “Han er at og kjem seg”: om ein vestnordisk aspektkonstruksjon. Bergen: Nordisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen. [Pages 117–118]
van der Gaaf, W. 1934. The connection between verbs of rest (lie, sit, and stand) and another verb, viewed historically. English Studies 16(1–6). 81–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138383408596619 [Pages 86–87]
Vannebo, Kjell Ivar. 2003. Ta og ro deg ned noen hakk: on pseudocoordination with the verb ta ‘take’ in a grammaticalization perspective. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 26(2). 165–193. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0332586503001070
Vannebo, Kjell Ivar. 2003. «Ta og ro deg ned noen hakk.» Pseudokoordinering med ta i et grammatikaliseringsperspektiv. In Jan Terje Faarlund (ed.), Språk i endring: indre norsk språkhistorie, 255–278. Oslo: Novus.
Vogel, Petra M. 2007. Anna ist essen! Neue Überlegungen zum Absentiv. In Ljudmila Geist (ed.), Kopulaverben und Kopulasätze: intersprachliche und intrasprachliche Aspekte, 253–284. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110938838.253 [Pages 258–259]
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2007. The syntax of tenselessness: tense/mood/aspect-agreeing infinitivals. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197839 [Pages 191–192]
Wimmer, Ludvig F. A. 1903. Oldnordisk læsebog med anmærkninger og ordsamling. København: V. Pios Boghandel. [Page 292]
Transitive TAKE NP AND construction in Old Norse
Åfarli, Tor Anders & Chet Creider. 1987. Nonsubject Pro-Drop in Norwegian. Linguistic Inquiry 18(2). 339–345. [Pages 341–342]
Nygaard, M. 1906. Norrøn Syntax. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard). [Pages 16–19]