Pseudo-coordinations in Faroese
- Author(s): Caroline Heycock 1 and Hjalmar P. Petersen 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Edinburgh, UK2 University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn
- Source: Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies , pp 259-280
- Publication Date August 2012
In this article we describe the system of pseudo-coordinations in Faroese − coordinations in the verbal system in which the second conjunct appears in fact to be subordinated to the first − in the light of previous discussions of this phenomenon in Scandinavian. We discuss pseudo-coordinations − mainly, but not exclusively, with verbs of posture in the first conjunct − that have an aspectual interpretation (e.g. sit and ...); and also pseudo-coordinations where the second conjunct alternates with an infinitive clause (e.g. try and ...). We conclude with an overview of the distribution of pseudo-coordinations in Germanic, and offer some suggestions as to how they may have arisen in Faroese.
- Affiliations: 1: University of Edinburgh, UK; 2: University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn
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