Word order change in Icelandic :: from OV to VO /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2000.
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 35.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-377) and index.
ISBN:9789027299208
902729920X
9781556192098
1556192096
128216340X
9781282163409
9786612163401
6612163402
ISSN:0166-0829 ;