Abstract
Morphological dative in Norwegian dialects
Highlights
The inflectional category of case was present in the Old Scandinavian languages, and it is still used in modern Faroese and Icelandic
The dative case in Mainland Scandinavian is today most often present on noun phrases and pronouns governed by a preposition, one finds dative marking on indirect and direct objects after
NALS Journal certain verbs, as well as on noun phrases governed by certain adjectives
Summary
The inflectional category of case was present in the Old Scandinavian languages, and it is still used in modern Faroese and Icelandic. There still exist Norwegian and Swedish dialects that display relics of the former Germanic four-case system and the retained cases is – morphologically speaking – most often dative, whereas the opposition between nominative and accusative has been largely lost. Reinhammar 1973; Sandøy 1985; Delsing 2003, Hanssen 2010, Anderson 2010, Åfarli & Fjøsne 2012, Mæhlum & Røyneland 2012, Eyþórsson et al 2012). It is not a fully productive phenomenon in any dialect, and its appearance tends to be limited to definite noun phrases and pronouns preceded by certain prepositions (this tendency is already mentioned in Aasen 1848:111). The dative case in Mainland Scandinavian is today most often present on noun phrases and pronouns governed by a preposition, one finds dative marking on indirect and direct objects after
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