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This study deals with the complementation of verbs in Icelandic. The main emphasis is on clausal complements of verbs and the syntactic rules that operate in and on such complements. This study is written with two kinds of readers in mind. First, it is written for the theoretical linguist who is looking for phenomena of general theoretical interest, i.e. facts about Icelandic syntax that bear on the question what an adequate general linguistic theory must be like and hence shed some light on the nature of human language. Second, the study is also written with a different kind of reader in...

Die Festschrift prasentiert 19 Beitrage, die in ihrer thematischen Weite dem breiten Spektrum der wissenschaftlichen Betatigung Otmar Werners entsprechen: Orthographie und Schriftwandel, Runen; Beitrage zum Inselnordischen (Islandisch, Faroisch); kontrastive Linguistik Deutsch - Skandinavisch; linguistische Beschreibung des Deutschen von der Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Dialektologie bis zur Pragmatik; Fragen der allgemeinen Sprach(wandel)theorie, Sprachgeschichte und Onomastik Skandinaviens; mittelalterliche skandinavische Literatur. Ein vollstandiges Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars...

This book offers a survey of current work in Nordic and General Linguistics, with a special focus on language contact. The papers in this book were presented at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL) in Freiburg. The ICNGL conference series aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Scandinavian and other languages, between researchers from the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
The present volume focuses on language contact, which has always been a topic of great interest in Nordic Linguistics. Additionally, the contributions in this book address...

This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates some of the latest achievements in the description of written and spoken Finnish.

It gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish. No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader and grammatical rules are clearly explained without jargon.

Features of this new edition include:

pronunciation...

This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates some of the latest achievements in the description of written and spoken Finnish.

It gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish. No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader and grammatical rules are clearly explained without jargon.

Features of this new edition include:

pronunciation...