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Syntactic variation in Insular Scandinavian /
This book presents the latest research on the syntax of the "Insular Scandinavian" languages (Faroese and Icelandic), with contributions from thirteen experts, and a significant introductory chapter by the four editors. The topics covered include some that have figured extensively in recen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Studies in Germanic linguistics,
volume 1 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Background; 2. The data; 3. Descriptive topics; 4. Theoretical and comparative issues; 5. Concluding remarks; References; On quantity and quality in syntactic variation studies: On quantity and quality in syntactic variation studies; 1. Introduction; 2. Doing large scale studies to avoid the Forrest Gump Effect; 3. Relative judgments and absolute judgments can complement each other; 4. Correlations between judgments
- and limits of strictly parametric approaches.
- 5. Is Faroese moving away from Insular Scandinavian?6. Concluding remarks; References; Variation in oblique subject constructions in Insular Scandinavian: Variation in oblique subject constructions in Insular Scandinavian; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background; 3. Variation in subject case in Icelandic; 4. Variation in subject case in Faroese; 5. Two apparent puzzles; 6. The implications of the development of case marking; 7. Conclusion; References; Determining the nature of intra-speaker subject case variation: Determining the nature of intra-speaker subject case variation.
- 1. Introduction2. Previous studies: Major findings and unsolved problems; 3. Study; 4. Results; 5. Analysis; 6. Conclusion; References; Variation in dative in Faroese; 1. Introduction; 2. Dative in Faroese
- A short overview; 3. Method; 4. Does the variation depend on the form of the NP?; 5. Does the semantics of the verbs play a role?; 6. The case assignment of borrowed verbs; 7. Conclusion; References; Avoiding Genitive in Icelandic; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. GA with arguments; 4. Dative matching genitive; 5. Conclusion; References.
- Dimensions of variation: Agreement with nominative objects in Icelandic1. Introduction; 2. Background and overview of the data; 3. Intervention effects; 4. A detailed look at agreement variation; 5. Conclusion; References; Inverse attraction in Icelandic relative clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview and background; 3. Sketching an analysis; 4. Survey design; 5. Results; 6. Interpreting the results; 7. Conclusion and future directions; References; Appendix A. Attested Examples; Appendix B. Survey Items; Appendix C. Instructions.
- Variation in copular agreement in Insular Scandinavian: Variation in copular agreement in Insular Scandinavian1. Introduction: Agreement with low nominatives in Insular Scandinavian; 2. Specificational sentences; 3. Specificational agreement in Faroese; 4. Specificational agreement in Icelandic: Number; 5. Specificational agreement in Icelandic: Person; 6. Accounting for agreement in specificational sentences; 7. Summary and future work; References.