Comitation: Doubling, demotion and extension with Danish med ‘with’

Name of applicant

Peter Juul Nielsen

Title

Associate Professor

Institution

University of Southern Denmark

Amount

DKK 911,000

Year

2024

Type of grant

Monograph Fellowships

Summary

Speakers of Danish do an impressive range of things with the preposition ‘med’ (‘with’), and this book is the first in-depth study of the crucial role of ‘med’ in the grammar of Danish. Through the example of Danish ‘med’, the book offers groundbreaking new insights to the general linguistic study of ‘with’-like elements and to our understanding of how prepositions contribute meaning.

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