Nouns, Articles & Gender

Historisk utveckling av den skandinaviska suffixartikeln

Historical development of the Scandinavian suffixed definite article

A defining shared innovation across the Scandinavian languages

Komparativ skandinavisk substantivmorfologi

Comparative Scandinavian noun morphology

Swedish vs Norwegian vs Danish

Closely related but structurally distinct nominal systems

Dubbel bestämdhet som areellt skandinaviskt drag

Double definiteness as a Scandinavian areal syntactic feature

Shared across Swedish, Norwegian, and some Danish varieties

Diakron förlust av kasusmarkering på substantiv

Diachronic loss of case marking on nouns from Old Swedish

Old Swedish nouns once carried a fuller case system

Grammatikalisering av demonstrativ till bestämd artikel

Grammaticalization of demonstratives into definite suffixes

A textbook example of grammaticalization in Germanic languages

Teorier om genustilldelning: semantiska vs arbiträra faktorer

Gender assignment theory: semantic vs arbitrary factors

Linguists debate how predictable Swedish gender really is

Substantivmorfologi i svenska dialekter

Noun morphology in Swedish dialects

e.g. Scanian, Norrland dialects

Regional dialects sometimes preserve older or divergent patterns

Beräkningsmässig morfologisk analys av substantivböjning

Computational morphological analysis of Swedish noun inflection

Automated systems must model all five declension classes

Korpusbaserad frekvens av deklinationsklasser

Corpus-based frequency of declension classes

Data shows which noun patterns are most and least productive

Svensk nominal morfologi inom germansk typologi

Swedish nominal morphology within Germanic typology

How Swedish's noun system compares to German, English, and others