PEGS Paper

PEGS Paper
Author: ERIC Clearinghouse for Linguistics. Program for Exchange of Generative Studies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 10
Release: 1967
Genre: Generative grammar
ISBN:

On Complementation in Icelandic

On Complementation in Icelandic
Author: Hoskuldur Thrainsson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317918649

This study deals with the complementation of verbs in Icelandic. The main emphasis is on clausal complements of verbs and the syntactic rules that operate in and on such complements. This study is written with two kinds of readers in mind. First, it is written for the theoretical linguist who is looking for phenomena of general theoretical interest, i.e. facts about Icelandic syntax that bear on the question what an adequate general linguistic theory must be like and hence shed some light on the nature of human language. Second, the study is also written with a different kind of reader in mind, namely a reader who is interested in Icelandic syntax in particular, perhaps from a more descriptive point of view.

Oblique Subjects in Germanic

Oblique Subjects in Germanic
Author: Jóhanna Barðdal
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111078019

Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.

Modern Icelandic Syntax

Modern Icelandic Syntax
Author: Joan Maling
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004373233

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.

Problems in Syntax

Problems in Syntax
Author: Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 146132727X

Intensifiers in English and German

Intensifiers in English and German
Author: Peter Siemund
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134604491

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.

Linguistic Inquiry

Linguistic Inquiry
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 806
Release: 1996
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN:

Research on current topics in linguistic theory, including new theoretical developments based on the latest international discoveries.

The Copy Theory of Movement

The Copy Theory of Movement
Author: Norbert Corver
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007-06-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027292302

This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element that is deleted in the phonological component but is available for interpretation at L(ogical) F(orm). Thus far, the bulk of the research on the copy theory has mainly focused on interpretation issues at LF. The consequences of the copy theory for syntactic computation per se and for the syntax–phonology mapping, in particular, have received much less attention in the literature, despite its crucial relevance for the whole architecture of the model. As a contribution to fill this gap, this volume congregates recent work that deals with empirical and conceptual consequences of the copy theory of movement for the inner working of syntactic computations within the Minimalist Program, with special emphasis on the syntax–phonology mapping.