Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Kiel University
Sabrina Goll (Europa-Universität Flensburg) has now published her Kiel dissertation on South Schleswig Danish (open access). In this study, she analyses characteristic structural features of this Danish variety based on a questionnaire survey from a sociolinguistic, contact linguistic and construction grammar perspective.
A new website about Diasystematic Construction Grammar is available online at dcxg.org. The website contains a more or less up-to-date DCxG bibliography, a glossary that provides basic definitions of key concepts, and an overview of research using DCxG. I hope you’ll find it useful – and if so, please let me know if you have … Read more
A new volume that co-edited by me and my colleagues from the University of Gothenburg has just been published: 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 … Read more
The third workshop in the series Constructions in the Nordics (CxGN) will be held at Kiel University, 19 and 20 September 2022. The workshop – which I am organising together with Anna Hagel, and Prentice – brings together construction grammarians from the Nordic countries as well as Nordic linguists from outside the Nordics. See the … Read more
On 16 and 17 November, the workshop on Constructions in the Nordics (CxGN), which I am organising together with colleagues from Gothenburg, will take place for the second time, after a first meeting in Kiel last year – this time, however, necessarily in an online format. The workshop brings together construction grammarians from the Nordic … Read more