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Prepositions, Conjunctions & Complex Sentences

Prepositions, conjunctions, the BIFF word-order rule and subordinate clause structure
Textgrammatik: kohesion i svensk diskurs
text grammar: cohesion devices in Swedish discourse
reference, connectives, ellipsis
Devices that tie sentences together into a coherent text
Sociolingvistik: standardsvenska vs regionala dialekter
sociolinguistics: standard Swedish vs regional dialects in register
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Register choice interacts with regional dialect background
Pragmatik: artighet och talhandlingar
pragmatics: politeness and speech acts in Swedish
du-reform legacy, indirectness
Swedish politeness norms shifted significantly after the du-reform
Samtalsanalys: diskursmarkörer
conversation analysis: discourse markers
alltså, liksom, ju, väl
Small words that structure the flow of spoken interaction
Tekniskt/akademiskt register
technical/academic register features
nominal style, passive voice
Formal Swedish favors nouns and passives over everyday phrasing
Språkförändring: engelska lånord och syntaktisk förenkling
language change: English loanwords and syntactic simplification
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Ongoing shifts observable in contemporary spoken/written Swedish
Språkkontakt: lågtyska och franska lånordslager
language contact: Low German and French historical loanword layers
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Major historical borrowing waves shaped Swedish vocabulary
Svenska som ett pluricentriskt språk
Swedish as a pluricentric language
Sweden Swedish vs Finland Swedish
Two national standard varieties with their own norms
Andraspråksforskning om svenska som främmande språk (SFI)
SLA research on Swedish as a foreign language
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Studies on how learners progress through Swedish's grammar
Korpuslingvistiska resurser för svenska
corpus linguistics resources for Swedish
Språkbanken, SUC corpus
Digital corpora used for studying and processing Swedish