Adjectival and genitival modification in definite noun phrases in Icelandic-a tale of outsiders and inside jobs

AP Pfaff - 2015 - munin.uit.no
Icelandic provides substantial diversity of modification patterns in definite noun phrases not
found in other languages. This thesis takes a closer look at that diversity and argues that …

The standardization of a modern pluriareal language: Concepts and corpus designs for German and beyond

S Elspaß, K Niehaus - Orð og tunga, 2014 - ordogtunga.arnastofnun.is
In this paper, we address the topic “Foundations of Language Standardization” from a
theoretical and a methodological point of view, aiming at a more detailed account of …

[PDF][PDF] Icelandic let-causatives and case

J Wood - 2011 - academia.edu
The verb láta 'let/make'in Icelandic provides a unique opportunity to understand the behavior
of symmetric versus asymmetric DAT-NOM constructions. In this paper, I take a close look at …

The passive of reflexive verbs in Icelandic

H Árnadóttir, T Eythórsson, EF Sigurðsson - Nordlyd, 2011 - septentrio.uit.no
Abstract The Reflexive Passive in Icelandic is reminiscent of the so-called New Passive (or
New Impersonal) in that the oblique case of a passivized object NP is preserved. As is …

Inside and outside–Before and after

A Pfaff - Adjectives in Germanic and Romance, ed. Petra …, 2014 - books.google.com
Icelandic has four (definite) article–adjective–noun patterns. In this paper, I present novel
data, and put “old” data in a new perspective. I will argue that weakly inflected adjectives …

Prepositional phrases and case in North American (heritage) Icelandic

N Dehé, T Kupisch - Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The paper investigates the use of PPs, specifically prepositions and the case marking on
their DP arguments, in moribund North American (heritage) Icelandic (NAmIce), using data …

[PDF][PDF] The innovative hvor ('each') reciprocals and distributives in Icelandic

HÁ Sigurðsson, EF Sigurðsson, J Wood - 2021 - projekt.ht.lu.se
Standard Icelandic has the reciprocal hvor annar 'each other'and the distributives hvor sinn
'each their'and sinn hvor 'their each'(the latter two being largely synonymous). The two parts …

[PDF][PDF] Icelandic imposters and the proprial article

J Wood - NYU working papers in linguistics, 2009 - academia.edu
Collins & Postal (2008) argue that in sentences like (1a), where the present authors is
understood to be the speaker, the present authors contains a null pronoun WE, as in (1b).(1) …

[PDF][PDF] Prepositional vs. indirect objects in Icelandic

I Kristínardóttir, JG Jónsson - WPSS, 2022 - projekt.ht.lu.se
A corpus study of the Prepositional Object Construction (POC) in Icelandic shows that the
POC is basically restricted to ditransitive verbs encoding motion or entailing successful …

[書籍][B] Icelandic: An essential grammar

DL Neijmann - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Icelandic: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical
structure of Icelandic. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this …