This book explores the hypothesis that subordinators are modal markers. More specifically, it
argues that general subordinators (or complementizers), such as the Germanic that, if, and …

This book studies insubordination using Germanic data. On a descriptive level, it
distinguishes a wide number of (previously undescribed) types of complement and …

This paper examines cyclical changes involving complementisers, for instance, whether in
the history of English. Whether starts out as a pronoun and after frequent topicalisation is …

Det stora avhandlingsäventyret mot slutet av mitt långa arbetsliv har på många sätt påmint
om mitt livs första förvärvsarbete när jag som stewardess på M/S Northern Clipper stävade …

A case of degrammaticalization in Northern Swedish Page 312 A case of
degrammaticalization in northern Swedish* Henrik Rosenkvist Lund University 1 …

Prepositions already formed a grammatical category in the Common German language. N
ew Scandinavian prepositions were established during the preliterary and the early literary …

In the fourth scene of Bertolt Brecht's “The Life of Galilei”, the astronomer tries to convince
the Grand Duke and two accompanying scholars that the planet Jupiter has moons. The two …

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 conjunctions …