Generics as a paradigm: A corpus-based study of Norwegian [article]

Anna Kurek-Przybilski
2021 Zenodo  
This paper examines generics as a part of human cognition, rooted in speakers' language knowledge in form of a grammatical paradigm. The paradigm proposed in this paper is based on a broader understanding of the notion, as presented in Diewald (2009) and Diewald & Smirnova (2010) among others. The matrix of the noun forms used in Norwegian in generic contexts is based on the models proposed by Radden & Dirven (2007), Radden (2009) and Pettersson (1976). The models of generics were adjusted to
more » ... e data from the Norwegian language, collected in this corpus-based study.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5675856 fatcat:esc74nzwi5eoffb44mnpnx3y44