Modern Icelandic syntax / / edited by Joan Maling, Annie Zaenen.

• Superior document: Syntax and Semantics ; Volume 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Maling, Joan,; Zaenen, Annie E. 1941-
• Place / Publishing House: Bingley, England : : Emerald,, 1990.
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Series: Syntax and semantics ; Volume 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen -- On Icelandic Word Order Once More / Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Höskuldur Thráinsson -- V1 Declaratives and Verb Raising in Icelandic / Halldór Ármann Sigurɖsson -- Inversion in Embedded Clauses in Modern Icelandic / Joan Maling -- Case and Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive / Annie Zaenen, Joan Maling and Höskuldur Thráinsson -- Unaccusative, Passive, and Quirky Case / Annie Zaenen and Joan Maling -- Preposition-Stranding and Passive / Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen -- The VP-Complement Analysis in Modern Icelandic / Avery D. Andrews -- Case Structures and Control in Modern Icelandic / Avery D. Andrews -- The Grammar of Icelandic Verbs in -st / Stephen R. Anderson -- Clause-Bounded Reflexives in Modern Icelandic / Joan Maling -- A Semantic Reflexive in Icelandic / Höskuldur Thráinsson -- Long-Distance Reflexives and Moods in Icelandic / Halldór Ármann Sigurɖsson -- We Need (Some Kind of) a Rule of Conjunction Reduction / Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson -- A Note on Icelandic Coordination / Joan Bresnan and Höskuldur Thráinsson -- Null Objects in Icelandic / Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson -- The Nonuniversality of a Surface Filter / Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen -- Bibliography of Modern Icelandic Syntax / Höskuldur Thráinsson and Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson -- Bibliography of Diachronic Icelandic Syntax / Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Höskuldur Thráinsson -- Index / Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen -- Syntax and Semantics / Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen.