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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827226603321
• Autore: orbjorg Hroarsdottir
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2000
• ISBN: 1-282-16340-X; 9786612163401; 90-272-9920-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 35
• Disciplina: 439/.695
• Soggetti: Icelandic language - Word order; Old Norse language - Word order
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-377) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: WORD ORDER CHANGE IN ICELANDIC -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Diachronic Syntax -- Chapter 3. Synchronic Theoretical Background -- Chapter 4. The Decline of OV Word Order -- Chapter 5. Base Word Order -- Chapter 6. The Nature of Preverbal Objects -- Chapter 7. Word Order Patterns -- Chapter 8. Object Positions -- Chapter 9. Parameter Change -- Chapter 10. Summary and Conclusions -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Primary texts -- Appendix 2: Authors of nineteenth century letters -- Appendix 3: Bibliographical information for the nineteenth century letters -- Appendix 4: Preverbal nominal objects left -- Appendix 5: The decline of pure word order patterns within multiple complements -- Appendix 6: The decline of mixed word order patterns -- References -- Subject Index -- The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.