Search: onr:"swepub:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/277114" >
Presentational sent...
Presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish: Roles and positions
-
- Engdahl, Elisabet, 1949 (author)
- University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för svenska språket,Department of Swedish
-
- Maling, Joan (author)
- Brandeis University
-
- Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Isländska,Avdelningen för svenska, danska och isländska, tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning,Sektion 1,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Svenska,Avdelningen för svenska, danska och isländska, tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning,Icelandic,Division of Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Public Service Interpreting and Translation,Section 1,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,Swedish,Division of Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Public Service Interpreting and Translation
-
show more...
-
- Zaenen, Annie (author)
- Stanford University
-
show less...
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- 2018
- 2018
- English.
-
Series: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 1100-097X
-
In: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 101, s. 1-28
- Related links:
-
https://gup.ub.gu.se... (primary) (free)
-
show more...
-
https://projekt.ht.l... (free)
-
https://gup.ub.gu.se...
-
https://lup.lub.lu.s...
-
show less...
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- In this article we report on a systematic comparison of presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish, looking in particular at possible thematic roles of the pivot and how they correlate with positional options. Despite some well-known differences between the languages (only Icelandic allows ‘high’ IP-pivots and pivots with transitive verbs), it turns out that the restrictions on VP-pivots are similar, both in terms of roles and positions. VP-pivots have to be Themes and may co-occur with other DPs, but only if the pivot is the last DP argument. We show how these restrictions to some extent reflect the argument structure proposed in Platzack (2010). In addition we show that we need to distinguish presentational sentences among the different Transitive Expletive Constructions discussed in Håkansson (2017).
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Icelandic
- Swedish
- Scandinavian syntas
- existential
- presentational
- theta roles
- argument structure
Publication and Content Type
- vet (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
To the university's database