Overview
- Provides a cohesive and thorough overview of Icelandic argument structure alternations
- Shows a syntactic theory of argument structure in which the syntax is much more autonomous than in its closest relatives
- Presents a thorough analysis of recalcitrant Icelandic “-st middles”
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 90)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Allomorphy marked alternations
- Case Marking in Germanic languages
- High-low applicatives
- Icelandic linguistics
- Icelandic syntax
- Interpretation and Allosemy
- Middle voice in Icelandic
- Morphonological properties
- Root distribution in anticausatives
- Root distribution in figure reflexives
- argument structure in germanic languages
- unmarked figure reflexives
About this book
This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into morphological representations, on the one hand, and semantic representations, on the other. The syntactic primitives, however, underdetermine both morphophonology and semantics. Without appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives constraints on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs, interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally agentive interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure
Authors: Jim Wood
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09138-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09137-2Published: 20 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34811-7Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09138-9Published: 05 January 2015
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 316
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations
Topics: Syntax, Germanic Languages, Semantics