Estonia-Swedish grammar challenges established theories
How can grammatical "junk" be given a new lease of life and change our understanding of how language works? A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that a unique grammatical construction found in Estonia-Swedish dialects contradicts established assumptions about what is possible in Germanic languages.During the Middle Ages, people migrated from Sweden’s east coast to Estonia. There, they developed their own Swedish dialects, which over the centuries were shaped through close contact with Estonian and relative isolation from standard Swedish. The result was Estonia-