[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the configurationality issue in Old Icelandic

H Booth - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
The status of Old Icelandic with respect to (argument) configurationality was hotly debated in
the early 1990s (eg Faarlund 1990; Rögnvaldsson 1995) and remains unresolved. Since …

Verb-second and verb-first in the history of Icelandic

H Booth, C Beck - Journal of Historical Syntax, 2021 - historicalsyntax.org
The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative
literature (eg Sigurðsson 1990, Franco 2008), and such structures are known to be more …

[PDF][PDF] LFG and historical linguistics

H Booth, M Butt - Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar, 2023 - library.oapen.org
This chapter looks at the opportunities and perspectives that LFG offers for the study of
language change, surveying existing LFG approaches within historical linguistics and …

[PDF][PDF] Multifunctional Dutch 'er'

SM Jones - Proceedings of the LFG'20 Conference, On-Line, 2020 - stanford.edu
This paper presents an LFG analysis of two aspects of the Dutch pronoun er: its ability to
provide multiple grammatical functions within a single clause; and the constraints on the …

[PDF][PDF] Stylistic Fronting and information structure in Icelandic: insights from prosody and diachrony

H Booth, T Bögel, C Beck, N Dehé - ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de
The phenomenon of Stylistic Fronting (SF) in Icelandic has attracted lots of attention in the
literature since its early treatment by Maling (1980). Though definitions of SF vary, it can be …

[PDF][PDF] Syntactic configurationality and discourse configurationality in Old Icelandic: evidence from distributional differences across clause types

H Booth - lfg20.w.uib.no
Syntactic configurationality and discourse configurationality are two gradient properties of
languages. Syntactic configurationality refers to how endocentric/exocentric a language's c …