New publications: Constructional Approaches to Nordic languages & The Devil is in the schema

A new volume that co-edited by me and my colleagues from the University of Gothenburg has just been published:

  • Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice (eds.). 2023. Constructionist approaches to Nordic languages (Constructional Approaches to Language 37). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/cal.37.

This volume presents a number of recent studies on Scandinavian languages from a construction grammar perspective, covering a wide range of topics: from syntactic to phonological phenomena, from language change to language acquisition.

My contribution is on taboo-avoiding constructions in Swedish and covers both phonetic schemas and radical coercion:

  • Höder, Steffen. 2023. The Devil is in the schema: a constructional perspective on Swedish taboo-avoiding strategies. In Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice (Hgg.), Constructionist approaches to Nordic languages (Constructional Approaches to Language 37), 81–113. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/cal.37.04hod.