Sentence-initial indefinite subjects in English and Norwegian

dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-05T19:17:42Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-05T19:17:42Z
dc.date.created	2018-04-09T18:47:32Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.identifier.citation	Hasselgård, Hilde . Sentence-initial indefinite subjects in English and Norwegian. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). 2018, 9(1), 93-114
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10852/71205
dc.description.abstract	The present study uses the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus to investigate the frequency and use of indefinite noun phrases as subjects in English and Norwegian. Since subjects in both languages tend to appear clause-initially, indefinite subjects represent a deviation from the information principle. The clearest difference between the languages is the greater frequency of indefinite subject NPs in English. The lexicogrammatical features of the indefinite subjects and their immediate contexts are relatively similar in both languages. The indefinite subjects most commonly occur with intransitive verb phrases, and often in clauses with presentative or generic meaning. Translation correspondences of indefinite subjects show that the subject NP is retained in congruent form in the majority of cases, but more changes are made in translations from English into Norwegian than the other way round. This is taken to support the findings of the contrastive analysis and furthermore indicates that the light subject constraint is applied more strictly in Norwegian than in English.
dc.description.abstract	Sentence-initial indefinite subjects in English and Norwegian
dc.language	EN
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title	Sentence-initial indefinite subjects in English and Norwegian
dc.type	Journal article
dc.creator.author	Hasselgård, Hilde
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cristin.unitname	Britisk-amerikansk
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dc.identifier.cristin	1578457
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dc.identifier.jtitle	Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS)
dc.identifier.volume	9
dc.identifier.issue	1
dc.identifier.startpage	93
dc.identifier.endpage	114
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v9i1.1506
dc.identifier.urn	URN:NBN:no-74342
dc.type.document	Tidsskriftartikkel
dc.type.peerreviewed	Peer reviewed
dc.source.issn	1892-2449
dc.identifier.fulltext	Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/71205/1/1506-Article%2BText-6640-2-10-20180424.pdf
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