Original version
Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. 2014, 1, 28-33
Abstract
This chapter is about the quantifier somme 'some' found in some Norwegian dialects in addition to nokon (NN)/noen (BM) 'some, any'. The quantifier somme in the written language is used less in Bokmål Norwegian than in Nynorsk Norwegian, according to the Norwegian Reference Grammar (Faarlund et al. 1997:222 - 3). Faarlund et al. claim that it is used in the plural more often than in the singular, that it is a partitive quantifier denot ing a part of a whole, and that it also denotes specific reference. The main pattern is not unlike some in Standard English (although Sandøy: 1996 shows that in some dialect s there are more subtle semantic distinctions).