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Verbs & Present Tense

Four verb conjugation groups, no person/number agreement and the infinitive marker att
Morfologisk teori: stam + tempussuffix, inget personmärke
Morphological theory: stem + tense suffix, no person marking
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Swedish verbs encode far less than German or Greek verbs do
Diakron förlust av person-/talböjning
Diachronic loss of person/number agreement
Old Swedish to Modern Swedish
This simplification happened gradually over centuries
Starka vs svaga verbklasser: germansk ablaut
Strong vs weak verb classes: historical Germanic ablaut patterns
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A shared inheritance across all Germanic languages
-s-passivet/deponenssystemet
The -s passive/deponent system
grammaticalized from reflexive -sik
Traces back to an Old Norse reflexive pronoun suffix
Verb-partikelkonstruktioner: syntaktisk vs lexikal analys
Verb-particle constructions: syntactic vs lexical analysis
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Linguists debate how tightly bound these combinations really are
Lätta verb och kausativa konstruktioner
Light verb and causative constructions in Swedish
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Certain verbs function more grammatically than lexically
Integrationsmönster för lånordsverb
Loanword verb integration patterns
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Borrowed verbs are readily assigned to one of the four groups
Beräkningsmässig morfologisk analys av verbparadigm
Computational morphological analysis of Swedish verb paradigms
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Automated systems must model all four conjugation classes
Komparativ skandinavisk verbmorfologi
Comparative Scandinavian verb morphology
Swedish vs Norwegian vs Danish agreement loss
All three lost person agreement, but at different historical rates
Korpusbaserad frekvens av böjningsgruppers produktivitet
Corpus-based frequency of verb group productivity in neologisms
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New verbs (from loans or coinages) mostly join Group 1