Hoskuldur Thrainsson, H. Skuldur Thr Insson

The Syntax of Icelandic

Herausgeber: Bresnan, J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing on characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 923g
• ISBN-13: 9780521597906
• ISBN-10: 0521597900
• Artikelnr.: 33140529

Autorenporträt

Höskuldur Thráinsson is Professor in the Department of Icelandic, University of Iceland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Word order and clause structure
3. Order of elements within the phrases
4. Case, agreement, grammatical relations and thematic roles
5. Passives, middles and unaccusatives
6. Expletive constructions and clause structure
7. Fronting, focussing, extraposition and NP-shift
8. Finite and non-finite complements and adjuncts
9. Pronouns, reflexives and empty categories.