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Scandinavian gender agreement revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Olof Eriksson
Olof Eriksson
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Department of Romance languages, University of Göteborg
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In a recent article published in this journal (Faarlund, 1977), an attempt was made to account for the problem raised by the well-known fact that Scandinavian languages often use the neuter form of the predicative adjective in cases where the non-neuter form would seem to be called for by the ordinary rules of gender agreement.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1979 , pp. 93 - 105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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