Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure

• Main Author: Wood, Jim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 90
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Germanic languages.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Germanic Languages.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 2. The Morphosyntax of –st
• 3. DP Internal Argument – The Causative Alternation
• 4. pP Internal Argument – Figure Reflexives and Object  ‘Demotion’
• 5. Applicatives and Applied Datives
• 6. More on the Syntax of –st Verbs
• Conclusion
• References
• Index.