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For the record, that's an almost perfect description of the Scandinavian pitch accent, except it's usually not as simple as "marked for either high or low tone".

Google n-gram for negatived vs. negated. It looks like "negatived" was still slightly more popular in 1952.

I don't have the energy to translate this to a different language right now, but I thought I should answer Viktor since I seem to be the only Norwegian posting here these days. Jeg vil reise til Norge til jul eller etter jul (så i januar). Har dere noen anbefalinger? For eksempel, hva by/er syns der...

I recall some talk about this in Metaphors We Live By, so I'd recommend reading that. Here are some interesting examples of temporal metaphors in English from some Japanese university page (probably originally from somewhere else, but this is the first thing I found). Time is... ...a changer ...a co...

Recently while perusing a Wikipedia article on the Got Talent franchise (don't ask), I came across the phrase "Franchise that's status in [sic] unknown". It took me a while to parse this, but I guess that's is a possessive relative pronoun formed by analogy with whose . It sounds quite natural to m...

Faroese has ð > v in some environments as well, e.g. <maður> [ˈmɛavʊɹ]. Wikipedia has a somewhat misplaced section about the development of historical /ð/ at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_orthography#Glide_insertion. Are the [v]'s before [ʊ] actually directly developed from /ð/ here, though,...

Faroese has ð > v in some environments as well, e.g. <maður> [ˈmɛavʊɹ]. Wikipedia has a somewhat misplaced section about the development of historical /ð/ at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_or ... _insertion.

Norwegian and Swedish have (mostly) initial stress and a high-low pitch system that can appear (roughly) anywhere. In Danish the high pitch has been replaced by stød which is a glottalization thingy that's a bit hard to describe. Actually I would say that the pitch accent always falls on the stress...

It's far from commonly used, but if you're looking for a more Icelandified version there's Mikjáll. It appears in some sagas and has a Wikipedia article: http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikj%C3%A1ll, but it's very rare.

For the record, Faroese has the same dissimilation of /l:/ and /n:/, as do some Norwegian dialects.

You could probably resolve this easily with access to the plaintext. Surely you could find someone who subscribes to Dagbladet to cut 'n paste you a sample story? I probably could, but in light of what Julanga says about fictional creatures from Star Trek in the text I'm going to assume it's just K...

The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has a paywall system for their website version where certain articles (presumably the ones deemed to be sufficiently interesting) are available only to paid subscribers. When you load such articles it shows you the first few paragraphs, but blurs out the rest. Here'...

Isn't part of the reason that most European countries have stricter laws on the books regarding namegiving than the UK and the USA? From what I've seen, most of them require the names be sex-specific or allow unisex given names only in conjunction with a second name which is. Some of the rules have...

All this stuff about surnames becoming unisex names in English is interesting, and also logical since most surnames don't carry very clear implications of gender. I find it funny how English seems to be just about the only European language where this happens. I'm still looking for insight about uni...

Vaguely inspired by the Icelandic foreign name thread from the other day (http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=43059), I'd like to talk about naming conventions in the languages of the world, and in particular I'd like to know a bit about the use of unisex names. I realize that this is probab...

Here's an Icelandic source: http://www.visir.is/10-ara-stulku-neitad-um-vegabref-af-thjodskra/article/2014706259967 (A small correction to your description: The parents are originally British, but the two older children were indeed born in France.) According to the article the passport applications ...

IMD, and in bokmål (inf/pres/past/perf):
fø - før - fødde - fødd
føde - føder - fødte - født

In nynorsk both have fødde in the past tense. Most of the other shortened verbs are inflected similarly to fø.

It seems like most verbs that could potentially have been shortended according to the 1a-pattern do not in fact have short forms in the standard language. There are for example frida/freda, glöda, gräva, skava, skrida, svedja, sveda, svida, suga, såga . SAOB don't give any evidence of a short form ...

Norwegian works like English, with tilbake (or att in some dialects):

I gave it to him Jeg ga ham den; or Jeg ga den til ham.
He gave it back. Han ga den tilbake.

He hit me. Han slo meg.
I hit him back. Jeg slo ham tilbake.

But with deer and sheep , the unmarked plurals go all the way back to Proto-Germanic. (German Tiere and Schafe are innovations.) Do they? According to Wiktionary (not the best source for this stuff, I know, but it should be accurate in this case), Proto-Germanic had the singular *deuzą and the plur...

Norwegian has no simple equivalents for whenever/wherever. However, I can identify at least three different cases where different translations are required. In cases of responses to questions (e.g. "When should I come back?" "Whenever."), you'd use når som helst and hvor som helst . Når and hvor are...

which clusters proved to be surprisingly stable, surviving into english until... what, 1600? and aren't there still some dialects without the rap-wrap merger? it's too bad the (AFAIK and I'm probably wrong) only wl- word to survive into even middle english underwent metathesis to break up the clust...

linguoboy wrote:What do people think of this phrasal verb usage? (I had to reread the sentence to parse it correctly.)

Caribou Coffee may want to curb its online marketing campaign toward the young adult category

Possibly just a typo/eggcorn for "curve toward"?

Travis B. wrote:[ˈnaʔt ˈsefːʁ̩ˤː ˈwʁ̩ˤʔk]

What exactly do you mean by the glottal stop between the /r/ and the /k/? Is it some sort of preglottalization, or do you have a full-blown glottal stop with an independent release in there?

Serafín wrote:ar(C), father/gather = /ɑː/

Wait, there are people with /ɑː/ in "gather"?