North Germanic Negation - Munin

INTRODUCTION
Map 1: The area of North Germanic
Green: Insular North Germanic
Blue: Mainland North Germanic (dark blue: Swedish; light blue: Norwegian; violet: Danish)
The selection of varieties is partly pragmatically motivated. Thanks to the Nordic Centre of Excellence
in Microcomparative Syntax (NORMS), I have been given the opportunity to participate in several
dialectological fieldwork trips, and I have included the varieties from the NORMS fieldworks I have
participated in (Northern Ostrobothnia in Finland, Senja in Norway, Älvdalen in Sweden and Fosen in
Norway). My focus on Norway has furthermore directed me to the varieties of (North-) Western
Norway and the one of Setesdal, which show some interesting distributional properties regarding
the negative markers. The Oslo dialect is chosen first and foremost because of the large speech
corpus Norsk talespråkskorpus – Oslodelen (henceforth NoTa (Tekstlaboratoriet, ILN, University of
Oslo)). Because of its size, it may serve as a baseline and reference point for the investigation of the
other varieties.
It would be preferable to include in-depth studies of, for instance, other Swedish varieties and
some of the Danish varieties, but for practical reasons, this has not been done. They are, however,
included and to some degree discussed in general overviews of the various structures.
The object of study in the dissertation is elaborated on in section 1.2.2.
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