Negation & Questions

BIFF-regeln som minnesregel för bisatsordföljd

The BIFF rule as a mnemonic for subordinate clause word order

A teaching device capturing a genuine syntactic constraint

Negation och V2: teoretisk syntaktisk analys

Negation and V2: theoretical syntactic analysis of adverb placement

Formal syntax explains why inte moves in subordinate clauses

Diakron utveckling av inte

Diachronic development of inte

originally "not a step"

inte descends from a phrase literally meaning "not a step"

Komparativ skandinavisk negationsplacering

Comparative Scandinavian negation placement

Swedish vs Danish vs Norwegian

Related languages place their negators somewhat differently

Pragmatik i frågebildning

Pragmatics of question formation: information-seeking vs rhetorical

The same syntax can serve quite different communicative goals

Licensieringsmiljöer för negativ polaritet

Negative polarity licensing environments beyond inte

Certain non-negative contexts can also license these words

Sociolingvistisk variation i negation och taggpartiklar

Sociolinguistic variation in negation and tag particle use

Formal and casual Swedish differ subtly in these patterns

Beräkningsmässig tolkning av negationens räckvidd

Computational parsing of Swedish negation scope for NLP

Determining exactly what a negator applies to is a real challenge

Korpusanalys av BIFF-regelns efterlevnad

Corpus-based analysis of BIFF-rule adherence in spoken vs written Swedish

Data shows the rule is followed more strictly in writing than speech

Inlärningssvårigheter: bisatsordföljd för andraspråksinlärare

SLA challenges: subordinate clause word order for learners

One of the most persistently difficult areas for Swedish learners