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dc.contributor.authorVangsnes, Øystein A
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-01T09:22:20Z
dc.date.available2022-07-01T09:22:20Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-22
dc.description.abstractThere is considerable variation related to the form of exclamatives across North Germanic varieties (see Delsing 2010 and Abels and Vangsnes 2010). However, in the Nordic Syntax Database there is only information about one particular and somewhat special kind of exclamative construction, here termed ‘measureless quantificational exclamative’ and exemplified by the Swedish example in (1). (1) Vad bilar det var här! (Swedish) what cars it was here ‘What a lot of cars there are here!’ Measureless exclamatives convey a surprise over a presupposed large quantity of the kind of object denoted by the noun in the fronted wh-phrase, and they do so despite the fact that there is no overt quantifier in the phrase (compare gloss and translation). The construction is known from English and has for instance been recently discussed in Rett (2008: 148ff). The wh-item used in this construction is the one that is otherwise used in queries for objects, i.e. the item corresponding to the pronominal use of English what.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVangsnes ØA. Measureless quantificational exclamatives. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. 2014;1:475-485en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1205512
dc.identifier.doi10.5617/nals.5416
dc.identifier.issn2387-2667
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/25706
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Osloen_US
dc.relation.journalNordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals/system/archives/126/original/exclamatives.pdf
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleMeasureless quantificational exclamativesen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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