Person
Professor Emeritus
- Swedish
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail christer.platzacknordlund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 87 09
Room SOL:L315a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
The last six years I have had the benefit of spending most of my time doing research, due to a grant from The Swedish Scientific Foudation. Beginning with the Spring semester 2010, I am back in the normal situation of doing both teaching and research; I am keeping my appointment as a member of the linguistic research committee.
My research tasks for the moment are entirely grammatical, often with a comparative twist; I am studying backward bidning, stylistic fronting, head movement, do-support in connection with verb phrase ellipsis and verb phrase fronting, and aspects of argument structure. I am also finishing a book manuscript entitled "Den fantastiska grammatiken. En minimalistisk beskrivning av svenskan", which has been accepted for publication at Norstedts.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Parallel A/A-bar movement (research leader)
- Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Comparative (Scandinavian) Syntax (research leader)
I am presently trying to account for certain types of null-subjects in Swedish, which like English must pronounce the subject except when ellided due to coordination (Johan åt hamburgare och drack mjölk) and in cases with Topic drop (Var år Kalle? Sitter där borta). In addition to these types, there are also cases like "I gräset kan (det) finnas ormar" and "Det var (det) bra att du sa". Studying these and other randomly appearing examples, I have found traces of a hidden operation in Swedish which I call "Spurious topic drop" which can be shown to be operative in many of the occasional cases where the subject can be left out. I have been occupied by this research during the spring semester 2011, and part of the material has been presented in an article that will be published in a Festschrift. As a by-product, I have also looked at Split Topicalization (cases like Bilar har han många) from a syntactic point of view, which also has been presented in a paper, aimed for another Festschrift.
Books (1)
Editorships (3)
- Brandtler, J., Molnár, V. & Platzack, C. (2013). (Eds.) Approaches to Hungarian 13: papers from the 2011 Lund Conference. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Josefsson, G., Platzack, C. & Håkansson, G. (2003). (Eds.) The acquisition of Swedish grammar. Language acquisition & language disorders; 33. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Platzack, C. & Teleman, U. (1996). (Eds.) Nordiska studier : femton uppsatser om ord, namn, dialekter, filologi, stilhistoria och syntax : festskrift till Gösta Holm på 80-årsdagen den 8 juli 1996. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 48.
Articles (2)
- Platzack, C. (2007). Surprising facts in Swedish Grammar. Acta Sueco-Polonica, 14, 51-58. Centrum för Multietniska studier, Seminariet i Polens kultur och historia, Uppsala universitet.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2005). Litteraturkrönika 2004. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 120, 259-295. ANF.
Book chapters (20)
- Platzack, C. (2013). Spurious topic drop in Swedish. In Lohndal, T. (Ed.) In search of universal grammar: from Old Norse to Zoque (pp. 27-50). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Platzack, C. (2012). Backward Binding and the C-T Phase : A Case of Syntactic Haplology. In Brugé, L., Cardinaletti, A., Giusti, G. & Poletto, C. (Eds.) Functional Heads : The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 7. Oxford University Press.
- Platzack, C. (2012). Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs. In Ackema, P., Alcorn, R., Heycock, C., Jaspers, D., Van Craenenbroeck, J. & Vanden Wyngaerd, G. (Eds.) Comparative Germanic syntax: the state of the art (pp. 279-309). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Platzack, C. (2012). Split topicalization in Swedish and doubling with det 'it.NEUTER'. In Brandtler, J., Håkansson, D., Huber, S. & Klingvall, E. (Eds.) Discourse and Grammar : a Festschrift in Honor of Valéria Molnár (pp. 411-431). Lund University.
- Platzack, C. (2009). Rörelseverb och argumentstruktur: skillnader mellan nära besläktade språk. In Therkelsen, R. & Skafte Jensen, E. (Eds.) Dramatikken i Grammatikken (pp. 335-354). Institut for Kultur og Identitet. Roskilde Universitet.
- Platzack, C. (2009). Towards a minimal argument structure. In Bernardini, P., Egerland, V. & Granfeldt, J. (Eds.) Mélanges plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l’occasion de son 75ème anniversaire, (pp. 353-371). Lund University: Språk- och litteraturcentrum.
- Platzack, C. (2008). Left branch extraction of nominal modifiers in old Scandinavian. In Eythórsson, T. (Eds.) Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory : The Rosendal Papers (pp. 357-374), 113. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Platzack, C. (2008). Medfött och erövrat i språket. In Beskow, P., Borgehammar, S. & Jönsson, A. (Eds.) Förbistringar och förklaringar. Festskrift till Anders Piltz (pp. 499-505). Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet.
- Platzack, C. (2007). Embedded imperatives. In Wurff, W. v. d. (Ed.) Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar (pp. 181-203), 103. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Platzack, C. (2007). Uninterpretable Features and EPP: A Minimalist Account of Language Buildup and Breakdown. In Liceras, J. M., Zobl, H. & Goodluck, H. (Eds.) The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Platzack, C. (2006). Ett fall där objektet inte kan stå i fundamentet. In Ask, S., Byrman, G., Hammarbäck, S., Lindgren, M. & Stille, P. (Eds.) Lekt och lärt. Vänskrift till Jan Einarsson 2006 (pp. 215-229). Växjö universitet.
- Holmberg, A. & Platzack, C. (2005). The Scandinavian Languages. In Cinque, G. & Kayne, R. S. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax. Oxford University Press.
- Platzack, C. (2005). Böjning och fri ordföljd. En diskussion av en språklig fördom. In Bäcklund, I., Börestam, U., Melander Marttala, U. & Näslund, H. (Eds.) Text i arbete / Text at work. Festskrift till Britt-Louise Gunnarsson den 12 januari 2005. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Uppsala universitet.
- Platzack, C. (2005). Cross-Germanic Promotion to Subject in Ditransitive Passives – a Feature-Driven Account. In Vulchanova, M. & Åfarli, T. A. (Eds.) Grammar and Beyond. Essays in honour of Lars Hellan. Novus Forlag.
- Platzack, C. (2005). Karl XII:s bibel 1703 och svenska språket. In Larsson, T. & Olsson, B. (Eds.) Den gamla översättningen. Karl XII:s bibel och dess receptionshistoria. Föredrag vid en konferens i Lund den 21-25 februari 2003 anordnad av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund. Almqvist & Wiksell.
- Platzack, C. (2005). Satser med efterfrågade objekt – ett konkret exempel på en minimalistisk analys. In Melander, B. (Ed.) Språk i tid. Studier tillägnade Mats Thelander på 60-årsdagen. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Uppsala universitet.
- Platzack, C. (2005). The object of verbs like help and an apparent violation of UTAH. In Broekhuis, H., Corver, N., Huybregts, R., Kleinhenz, U. & Koster, J. (Eds.) Organizing Grammar. Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Platzack, C. (2004). Cross-Linguistic Word Order Variation at the Left Periphery: the Case of Object First Main Clauses. In Adger, D., de Cat, C. & Tsoulas, G. (Eds.) Peripheries : syntactic edges and their effects (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ; Vol. 59). Kluwer.
- Platzack, C. (2003). The Verb Phrase. In Josefsson, G., Platzack, C. & Håkansson, G. (Eds.) The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar (Language acquisition & language disorders; 33) (pp. 135-154). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Platzack, C. & Josefsson, G. (2003). Chapter 1, Introduction. In Josefsson, G., Platzack, C. & Håkansson, G. (Eds.) The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar (Language acquisition & language disorders; 33) (pp. 1-21). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Conference contributions (3)
- Platzack, C. (submitted). Cross Linguistic Variation in the Realm of Support Verbs.
- Platzack, C. (2003). Agreement and Null Subjects. Nordlyd, 31, 326-355. Institutt for språk og litteratur, Universitetet i Tromsø.
- Platzack, C. (2002). Relativization in the Germanic languages, with a particular emphasis on Scandinavian. In Poussa, P. (Ed.) Relativization in the North Sea Littoral: Proceedings of the north Sea Littoral Conference. Umeå, Sweden. LINCOM.
Working papers (3)
- Platzack, C. (2006). Case as Agree Marker. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 77. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund University.
- Platzack, C. (2005). Uninterpretable features and EPP: a minimal account of language build up and break down. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 75. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund University.
- Platzack, C. (2004). Agreement and the Person Phrase hypothesis. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax.
Reviews (9)
- Platzack, C. (2011). Anmeldelse af Erik Hansen og Lars Heltoft: Grammatik over det Danske Sprog. Bind I, Indledning og oversigt. NyS, 41, 93-117. Dansk sprognævn.
- Delsing, L.-O., Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2010). Litteraturkrönika 2009. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 125, 183-220. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2008). Litteraturkrönika 2007. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 123, 169-204. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2007). Litteraturkrönika 2006. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 122, 249-275. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2006). Litteraturkrönika 2005. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 121, 275-307. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2005). Litteraturkrönika 2004. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 120, 259-295. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2004). Litteraturkrönika 2003. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 119, 249-291. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2003). Litteraturkrönika 2002. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 118, 233-274. ANF.
- Edlund, L.-E., Hallberg, G. & Platzack, C. (2002). Litteraturkrönika 2001. Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 117, 237-282. ANF.
Supervision at Lund University (11)
- Brandtler, J. (2010). The Evaluability Hypothesis : The Syntax and Semantics of Polarity Item Licensing in Swedish. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 71. Dissertation.
- Garbacz, P. (2010). Word Order in Övdalian : A Study in Variation and Change. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 70. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Nordström, J. (2009). Modality and Subordinators in the Germanic Languages and beyond. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 68. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Waldmann, C. (2008). Input och output : ordföljd i svenska barns huvudsatser och bisatser. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 65. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Håkansson, D. (2008). Syntaktisk variation och förändring : en studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 64. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Thurén, C. (2008). The Syntax of the Swedish Present Participle. Dissertation.
- Heinat, F. (2006). Probes, pronouns and binding in the Minimalist Program. Dissertation.
- Mörnsjö, M. (2002). V1 Declaratives in Spoken Swedish : Syntax, Information Structure, and Prosodic Pattern. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap. Serie A, 59. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Josefsson, G. (1997). On the principles of word formation in Swedish. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap, 51. Lund University Press. Dissertation.
- Delsing, L.-O. (1993). The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in the Scandinavian Languages : A Comparative Study. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Delsing, L.-O. (1993). The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in the Scandinavian Languages : A Comparative Study. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
Professor Emeritus
- Swedish
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail christer.platzacknordlund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 87 09
Room SOL:L315a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20