The Syntax of Icelandic

Höfundur: Höskuldur Thráinsson (Útgáfa: 1)
The Syntax of Icelandic

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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.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9780511363672
Print ISBN
9780521591904
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Höskuldur Thráinsson
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2007-10-18
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
5
Afritunar takmörkun
5

Kaflar

  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.0 Icelandic and its closest relatives
  • 1.1 Nominal inflection and agreement
  • 1.1.1 Nouns and adjectives
  • 1.1.2 Articles and definiteness
  • 1.1.3 Pronouns
  • 1.1.4 Unstressed pronouns and cliticized forms
  • 1.2 Verbal morphology, agreement and auxiliary constructions
  • 1.2.1 Person and number
  • 1.2.2 Tense and mood
  • 1.2.3 Non-finite verb forms
  • 1.2.4 Auxiliary constructions
  • 2 Word order and clause structure
  • 2.1 A descriptive overview
  • 2.1.1 The basic clause structure assumed
  • 2.1.2 The default order of constituents and some variations
  • 2.1.3 Alternative subject positions
  • 2.1.4 Positions of finite and non-finite verbs
  • 2.1.5 Alternative object positions
  • 2.1.6 Positions of adverbs
  • 2.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 2.2.1 The nature of V2
  • 2.2.2 Subject positions and functional categories
  • 2.2.2.1 An overview of the subject positions
  • 2.2.2.2 The second subject position before the sentence adverb
  • 2.2.2.3 The subject in Spec-VP – but where?
  • 2.2.3 Verbal morphology and embedded word order
  • 2.2.4 Object positions, functional categories and properties of objects
  • 2.2.4.1 OS applies to objects – and only to objects
  • 2.2.4.2 OS of full NPs vs. pronominal OS
  • 2.2.4.3 Holmberg’s Generalization: short moves or ‘intervening material’?
  • 2.2.4.4 Definiteness and interpretation possibilities
  • 2.2.5 Adverbs and syntactic structure
  • 3 Order of elements within the phrase
  • 3.1 A descriptive overview
  • 3.1.1 Order within the (extended) noun phrase
  • 3.1.1.1 Order of the modifiers
  • 3.1.1.2 The articles
  • 3.1.1.3 The possessives
  • 3.1.2 Order within the (extended) verb phrase
  • 3.1.2.1 Objects and particles
  • 3.1.2.2 Direct and indirect objects
  • 3.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 3.2.1 Noun Phrase architecture and the order of constituents
  • 3.2.1.0 Introduction
  • 3.2.1.1 The position of determiners and the nature of definite NPs
  • 3.2.1.2 The distribution of possessives
  • 3.2.1.3 Agreement within the extended noun phrase
  • 3.2.1.4 The nature and positions of quantifiers
  • 3.2.2 Verb Phrase architecture and the order of constituents
  • 3.2.2.1 Some structural considerations and asymmetries
  • 3.2.2.2 Inversion and other reorderings
  • 3.2.2.3 Double object constructions and passive
  • 3.2.2.4 Double object constructions and Object Shift
  • 3.2.2.5 Prepositional arguments and particle constructions
  • 4 Case, agreement, grammatical relations and thematic roles
  • 4.1 A descriptive overview
  • 4.1.1 Some structural properties of subjects and objects
  • 4.1.1.1 Unmarked word order and ‘yes/no’-questions
  • 4.1.1.2 Non-subject preposing and word order (the V2 phenomenon)
  • 4.1.1.3 Subject definiteness and expletive constructions
  • 4.1.1.4 Antecedents of clause mates (binding)
  • 4.1.1.5 Antecedents of long-distance reflexives
  • 4.1.1.6 Subject ellipsis
  • 4.1.1.7 Subject-to-object raising
  • 4.1.1.8 Non-overt infinitival subjects
  • 4.1.1.9 Extraction out of embedded clauses
  • 4.1.1.10 Objects and passive
  • 4.1.1.11 Objects and Object Shift
  • 4.1.1.12 Structural relations between the verb and its objects
  • 4.1.2 Case marking of subjects, objects and indirect objects
  • 4.1.2.1 Subject cases
  • 4.1.2.2 Case marking and monotransitive (dyadic) verbs
  • 4.1.2.3 Case marking and ditransitive (triadic) verbs
  • 4.1.2.4 Other instances of oblique cases
  • 4.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 4.2.1 Structural and lexical case
  • 4.2.2 Morphological case and abstract case
  • 4.2.3 Case, semantic association and thematic roles
  • 4.2.3.0 Introduction
  • 4.2.3.1 Case marking and thematic roles of subjects
  • 4.2.3.2 Case marking and thematic roles of objects of dyadic verbs
  • 4.2.3.3 Case marking and thematic roles in double object constructions
  • 4.2.4 Some changes – and comparison with the other Scandinavian languages
  • 4.2.4.1 Subject case and thematic roles in Faroese and Icelandic
  • 4.2.4.2 Object case and thematic roles in Faroese
  • 4.2.4.3 Case marking and thematic roles in double object constructions in Faroese
  • 4.2.5 Relationship between case and agreement
  • 4.2.5.1 Types of agreement in Icelandic
  • 4.2.5.2 The difference between agreement with NP-predicates and agreement with objects
  • 4.2.5.3 Agreement of predicate adjectives and past participles
  • 4.2.6 Some comparative notes
  • 5 Passives, middles and unaccusatives
  • 5.1 A descriptive overview
  • 5.1.0 Introduction
  • 5.1.1 Regular passivization and thematic roles
  • 5.1.2 Passivization of ‘impersonal’ verbs
  • 5.1.3 Prepositional passive, impersonal passive and the expletive passive
  • 5.1.3.1 Distinguishing prepositional passives from topicalization structures
  • 5.1.3.2 Passives of particle verbs
  • 5.1.3.3 Impersonal passives and expletive passives
  • 5.1.4 The New Passive/New Impersonal
  • 5.1.5 ‘Middle verbs’ and the passive
  • 5.1.5.1 Some morphological characteristics of ‘middle verbs’
  • 5.1.5.2 Some classes of -st-verbs
  • 5.1.5.3 Syntactic properties of the true middle verbs and related verb classes
  • 5.1.6 Unaccusatives
  • 5.1.6.1 Outlining the class
  • 5.1.6.2 Accusatives with unaccusatives
  • 5.1.6.3 Datives with unaccusatives
  • 5.1.6.4 Non-preservation of case in transitive-unaccusative pairs
  • 5.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 5.2.1 Faroese middles, passives and case (non-)preservation
  • 5.2.2 Passives and middles in Mainland Scandinavian
  • 5.2.3 Impersonal passives in Scandinavian
  • 6 Different types of expletive constructions
  • 6.1 A descriptive overview
  • 6.1.0 Introduction
  • 6.1.1 Types of expletive constructions in Icelandic
  • 6.1.2 The positions available to the overt expletive in Icelandic
  • 6.1.3 The positions available to the associate of the expletive in Icelandic
  • 6.1.4 The positional requirements of different associates
  • 6.1.5 More on real and apparent exceptions to the Indefiniteness Requirement
  • 6.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 6.2.1 Structural position and role of expletive elements
  • 6.2.2 Expletive constructions in the other Scandinavian languages
  • 6.2.3 The ‘associate positions’ revisited
  • 6.2.4 The differences – and what can be said about them
  • 7 Fronting, focusing, extraposition and NP-shift
  • 7.1 A descriptive overview
  • 7.1.1 Fronting of non-subjects
  • 7.1.2 Topicalization and Wh-movement across clause boundaries
  • 7.1.3 Stylistic Fronting and the overt expletive
  • 7.1.4 Stylistic Fronting and Topicalization
  • 7.1.5 Left Dislocation and Contrastive Dislocation
  • 7.1.6 Clefts and relatives
  • 7.1.7 Extrapositions and rightward movement
  • 7.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 7.2.1 Stylistic Fronting vs. Topicalization
  • 7.2.2 Stylistic Fronting, expletives and subject gaps
  • 7.2.3 Some comparative evidence
  • 7.2.4 Possible landing sites and some theoretical proposals
  • 7.2.5 Syntactic positions, movements, gaps and information structure
  • 8 Finite and non-finite complements and adjuncts
  • 8.1 A descriptive overview of finite subordinate clauses
  • 8.1.1 Complements vs. adjuncts
  • 8.1.2 Tense and mood in complement clauses
  • 8.1.3 Distribution of að-clauses and hv-clauses
  • 8.1.4 Tense and mood in adjunct clauses
  • 8.1.5 Relative clauses and hv-clauses
  • 8.1.6 Complementizer deletion
  • 8.2 A descriptive overview of infinitive constructions
  • 8.2.0 Introduction
  • 8.2.1 Independent infinitives
  • 8.2.2 Complements of control verbs, including prepositional verbs
  • 8.2.3 Complements of modal verbs
  • 8.2.4 Complements of aspectual verbs
  • 8.2.5 On the distribution of að-infinitives
  • 8.2.6 Accusative with infinitive
  • 8.2.7 Nominative with infinitive and raising to subject position
  • 8.3 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 8.3.1 Complementizer deletion
  • 8.3.2 Extra complementizer elements
  • 8.3.3 Some structural properties of control complements
  • 8.3.4 AcI, Object Shift, NcI and raising
  • 8.3.5 Modal constructions
  • 9 Pronouns, reflexives and empty categories
  • 9.1 A descriptive overview
  • 9.1.1 Basic distribution of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns in Icelandic
  • 9.1.2 Cross-clausal anaphoric dependencies
  • 9.1.3 Reflexives inside infinitival complements
  • 9.1.4 Empty pronominal elements
  • 9.1.4.1 Non-expletive empty elements
  • 9.1.4.2 Empty elements in expletive constructions
  • 9.2 Some theoretical and comparative issues
  • 9.2.1 The standard Binding Theory
  • 9.2.2 Pronouns and reflexives in the Scandinavian languages
  • 9.2.2.1 The basic facts
  • 9.2.2.2 LDRs in Faroese and elsewhere
  • 9.2.2.3 An interim summary, some theoretical problems and proposals
  • 9.2.2.4 A lexical-morphological approach
  • 9.2.3 Is Icelandic a pro-drop language?
  • References
  • Abbreviations used in this list of references:
  • Please note that Icelandic authors are listed under their first name.
  • Index of subjects
  • Some abbreviations used below:
  • Index of languages and dialects