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SUMMARY:Elfdalian\, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages
  - Guus Kroonen\, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University
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CONTACT:Hanna Danbolt Ajer
DESCRIPTION:Elfdalian (autonym 'Övdalsk'\, Swedish 'Älvdalska') is spoke
 n by around two thousand people in the Swedish municipality of Älvdalen\,
  Dalarna. It is a variety of the Northern Dalecarlian dialects\, which dev
 eloped from Old Norse in relative isolation. This position has resulted in
  a number of striking archaisms and innovations not known or no longer kno
 wn from other Nordic languages\, particularly within the domains of phonol
 ogy and morphology. Moving back through time\, we will trace back several 
 important linguistic developments to different periods\, and see that this
  branch of Dalecarlian\, though never fully separated from the surrounding
  dialects\, started diverging from the Nordic continuum already in Proto-N
 orse times. 
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-04
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