Author: Joan Maling
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This comprehensive overview of Icelandic syntax contains new analyses of word order and long-distance reflexivization, detailed studies of case-marking, and the first systematic description of the -st middles. It presents a complete picture of modern Icelandic syntax as seen in the tradition of generative grammar, striking a good balance between theory and description.
Modern Icelandic Syntax
Author: Joan Maling
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This comprehensive overview of Icelandic syntax contains new analyses of word order and long-distance reflexivization, detailed studies of case-marking, and the first systematic description of the -st middles. It presents a complete picture of modern Icelandic syntax as seen in the tradition of generative grammar, striking a good balance between theory and description.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This comprehensive overview of Icelandic syntax contains new analyses of word order and long-distance reflexivization, detailed studies of case-marking, and the first systematic description of the -st middles. It presents a complete picture of modern Icelandic syntax as seen in the tradition of generative grammar, striking a good balance between theory and description.
Icelandic
Author: Stefán Einarsson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Word Order Change in Icelandic
Author: Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027227560
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as 'mixed' word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with restructuring phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027227560
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as 'mixed' word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with restructuring phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure
Author: Jim Wood
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319091387
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into morphological representations, on the one hand, and semantic representations, on the other. The syntactic primitives, however, underdetermine both morphophonology and semantics. Without appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives constraints on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs, interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally agentive interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319091387
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into morphological representations, on the one hand, and semantic representations, on the other. The syntactic primitives, however, underdetermine both morphophonology and semantics. Without appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives constraints on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs, interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally agentive interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.
The Icelandic Language
Author: Stefán Karlsson
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A Course in Modern Icelandic
Author: Jón Friðjónsson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Elementary Grammar of the Old Norse Or Icelandic Language
Author: George Bayldon
Publisher:
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Category : Old Norse language
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old Norse language
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Primer of Modern Icelandic
Author: Snæbjörn Jónsson
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Phonology of Modern Icelandic
Author: Kemp Malone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Verbal Syntax and Case in Icelandic
Author: Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description