[PDF] Modern Icelandic Syntax eBook

Author : Joan Maling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004373233

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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.

Author : Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902729920X

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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.

Author : Jim Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319091387

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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.

Author : Janez Orešnik
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This selection of twelve essays on modern Icelandic by Professor Janez Oresnik is published with the aim of making his pioneer work known to wider circles of linguists than those working only with modern Icelandic. With an unusually fine touch Professor Oresnik has opened a new page in the study of modern Icelandic by investigating some of the phonetic/phonological processes which are alive in daily speech. The selection includes his excellent articles on i- and u-umlaut, on the Epenthesis Rule, and on the devoicing rules.