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Om svenska konjunktioner och deras historia

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Summary, in English

Swedish conjunctions differ from subjunctions by being able to combine main clauses with each other. At the beginning of the literary period (13th century) Swedish had conjinctions meaning 'and', 'or', 'but', all of them with a Proto-Germanic origin. During the following centuries a few causal/explanatory and consecutive/conclusive conjunctioms were added: ty, for, so. In this article it s argued that these conjunctions were originally established as subjunctions which later became used also as conjunctions. The formal differentiation between conjunctions and subjunctions may be related to the rise of the particular syntactic structure of Swedish subordinate clauses in early modern time. It is interesting to note that the development unexpectedly occurred from hypotax to paratax, not the other way round.

Department/s

Publishing year

2012

Language

Swedish

Pages

59-92

Publication/Series

Arkiv för nordisk filologi

Volume

127

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

ANF

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Old Swedish
  • Early Modern Swedish
  • language change
  • grammaticalization
  • conjunctions
  • subjunctions
  • main clauses
  • subordinate clauses.

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0066-7668