Mari Nygård

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mari Nygård is involved.

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Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis: Clausal architecture and licensing conditions

Mari Nygård

This book develops a grammar model which accounts for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. This is a previously unexplored area, which has also been sparsely investigated internationally. The model takes an exoskeletal view, where lexical items are inserted late and where syntactic structure is… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2] 2018. xii, 245 pp.

Articles

Nygård, Mari and Heidi Brøseth 2021 Norwegian teacher students’ conceptions of grammar Pedagogical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 129–152 | Article

This paper explores the conceptions of grammar of first-year teacher students (N = 235) in Norway. A conventional content analysis is used to analyse the answers from the first part of a survey exploring the teacher students’ views of grammar through the following questions: Q1. How would you… read more

Nygård, Mari 2014 Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 171–190 | Article

In Norwegian discourse ellipses, elements in the left edge of the clause are most frequently elided. Yet, a topic drop analysis is argued to be empirically too narrow, since occasionally the whole C-domain is silent. I propose an analysis which combines semantic and structural restrictions:… read more