The Syntax Of Icelandic
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The Syntax Of Icelandic
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Author : Höskuldur Thráinsson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-18
The Syntax Of Icelandic written by Höskuldur Thráinsson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Icelandic is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order, clause structure, agreement patterns and case system arousing much theoretical interest and debate in recent years. This is an informative and accessible guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing in particular on those characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research. Each chapter is divided into two main sections - providing both a descriptive overview and a discussion of the theoretical and comparative issues involved - and a wide range of topics are covered, including case, agreement, grammatical relations, thematic roles, word order, clause structure, fronting, extraposition, complement, adjuncts, pronouns, and inflection. Also explored in detail are the similarities and differences between Icelandic and other related languages. Presupposing only a basic knowledge of syntax and complete with an extensive bibliography, this comprehensive survey will be an important tool for all those working on the structure of Scandinavian and Germanic languages.
The Syntax Of Icelandic
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Author : Höskuldur Thráinsson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-18
The Syntax Of Icelandic written by Höskuldur Thráinsson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Icelandic is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order, clause structure, agreement patterns and case system arousing much theoretical interest and debate in recent years. This is an informative and accessible guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing in particular on those characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research. Each chapter is divided into two main sections - providing both a descriptive overview and a discussion of the theoretical and comparative issues involved - and a wide range of topics are covered, including case, agreement, grammatical relations, thematic roles, word order, clause structure, fronting, extraposition, complement, adjuncts, pronouns, and inflection. Also explored in detail are the similarities and differences between Icelandic and other related languages. Presupposing only a basic knowledge of syntax and complete with an extensive bibliography, this comprehensive survey will be an important tool for all those working on the structure of Scandinavian and Germanic languages.
Modern Icelandic Syntax
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Author : Joan Maling
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-13
Modern Icelandic Syntax written by Joan Maling and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Syntax Of Embedded Clauses In Icelandic And Related Languages
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Author : Ásgrímur Angantýsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Syntax Of Embedded Clauses In Icelandic And Related Languages written by Ásgrímur Angantýsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Icelandic language categories.
Comparative Syntax Of Old English And Old Icelandic
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Author : Graeme Davis
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Comparative Syntax Of Old English And Old Icelandic written by Graeme Davis and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Study of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic has for long been dominated by the impressions of early philologists. Their assertions that these languages were «free» in their word-order were for many years unchallenged. Only within the last two decades has it been demonstrated that the word-order of each shows regular patterns which approach the status of rules, and which may be precisely described. This book takes the subject one step further by offering a comparison of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic, the two best-preserved Old Germanic languages. Overwhelmingly the two languages show the same word-order patterns - as do the other Old Germanic languages, at least as far as can be determined from the fragments which have survived. It has long been recognised that Old English and Old Icelandic have a high proportion of common lexis and very similar morphology, yet the convention has been to emphasise the differences between the two as representatives respectively of the West and North sub-families of Germanic. The argument of this book is that the similar word-order of the two should instead lead us to stress the similarities between the two languages. Old English and Old Icelandic were sufficiently close to be mutually comprehensible. This thesis receives copious support from historical and literary texts. Our understanding of the Old Germanic world should be modified by the concept of a common «Northern Speech» which provided a common Germanic ethnic identity and a platform for the free flow of cultural ideas.
Word Order Change In Icelandic
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Author : Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-23
Word Order Change In Icelandic written by Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Syntax Of Object Shift In Icelandic
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Author : Kenneth Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Syntax Of Object Shift In Icelandic written by Kenneth Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Icelandic language categories.
Icelandic Morphosyntax And Argument Structure
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Author : Jim Wood
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-01-05
Icelandic Morphosyntax And Argument Structure written by Jim Wood and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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 Syntax Of Old Icelandic A Parent Of The English Language
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Author : Robert Aspin Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
The Syntax Of Old Icelandic A Parent Of The English Language written by Robert Aspin Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with categories.
Verbal Syntax And Case In Icelandic
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Author : Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Verbal Syntax And Case In Icelandic written by Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Government-binding theory (Linguistics) categories.