Project description
Searching for a core meaning of impersonal pronouns in Germanic languages
The EU-funded IPG_CORE project will analyse and compare grammatical features of impersonal pronouns in the German, Norwegian and Swedish languages, taking into consideration their meaning within and outside of attitude contexts (communicative events that facilitate interpretation). Essentially, it intends to determine whether the behaviour of impersonal pronouns in Germanic languages originates from a single impersonal core meaning. The project will collect and classify data from real-world examples and survey results. It will also integrate existing theories on semantic behaviour of pronominal phrases in attitude contexts and results on pronominal structures. Overall, it will further our understanding of the complex nature of impersonal pronouns in Germanic languages.
Objective
"IPG_CORE examines the grammatical properties of German, Norwegian, and Swedish impersonal pronouns outside of and inside attitude contexts (i.e. sentential arguments of attitude verbs, like ""believe""). The aim is to provide new linguistic data and theoretical results that allow us to settle the question whether the behaviour of impersonal pronouns can be traced back to a single impersonal core meaning. I will conduct this investigation using empirical methodology developed in corpus linguistics (i.e. corpus studies) and linguistic typology (i.e. questionnaire studies). In addition, I will incorporate two lines of theoretical research into the current discussion that have so far been pursued independently of the research on impersonal pronouns: the semantic behavior of (pro)nominal expressions in attitude contexts and results on pronominal typology.
The ideal environment to tackle both the empirical and theoretical aspects of IPG_CORE is the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo (UiO). Close collaborations with my supervisor Prof. Patel-Grosz and the colleagues at the department, scientific and practical support, high-level training opportunities, one-of-a-kind resources (e.g. the Oslo Multilingual Corpus), and an overall inspiring working atmosphere distinguish the UiO as the ideal place to bring IPG_CORE to a fruitful conclusion."
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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0313 Oslo
Norway
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