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Exploring spontaneous-event marking though parallel corpora: Translating English ergative intransitive constructions into Norwegian and Swedish

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

English ergative verbs in one-participant constructions such as ‘The door opens’ often correspond to reflexive verbs or -S forms in Norwegian and Swedish. Following Kemmer (1993) such constructions profile spontaneous event meaning and belong to the middle domain. This study uses corpus methodology to explore spontaneous-event marking in Norwegian and Swedish from the point of view of Kemmer’s suggested two-cycle development path for middle marking in the Scandinavian languages. The results suggest that there are differences in the middle systems in the Scandinavian languages to the effect that Norwegian has completed Kemmer’s two cycles, whereas Swedish has not. Further, there is tentative indication that ergative verbs are on the increase in both Norwegian and Swedish for certain Subjects and in discipline-specific contexts, possibly due to influence from English.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

230-250

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Languages in Contrast

Volym

15

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Nyckelord

  • contrastive linguistics
  • corpus-based approach
  • ergative alteration
  • ergative verbs
  • parallel corpora
  • spontaneous-event marking
  • the middle voice
  • English/Norwegian/Swedish

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1387-6759