The Syntax of Old Norse
With a survey of the inflectional morphology and a complete bibliography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23156136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Terje Faarlund (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 322 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Syntax of Old Norse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235599.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2504624300 |
| Open Library | OL9493063M |
| ISBN | 9780199235599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
This is the first account of Old Norse syntax for a hundred years, and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. It presents a full analysis of the syntax of the language, and succinct descriptions of its phonology and inflectional morphology. Old Norse is the language used from the early ninth century till the late fourteenth century in Norway, Iceland, and the Faroes, and in the Norse settlements in the British Isles and Greenland. It was the language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas, and it is the best-documented medieval Germanic language. The syntactic analyses in the book are supported by numerous prose examples taken from the most reliable Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript editions. The descriptive framework is generative grammar, but the description is informal enough to be understandable to any linguist, grammarian or philologist regardless of theoretical background.
Adjective · Determiner phrase · Index (typography) · Library science · Linguistics · Morphology (biology) · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Old Norse · Phonology · Phrase · Subject (documents) · Syntax · Verb phrase · Computer Science · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure · Historische taalwetenschap · Icelandic and old norse languages · Inflection · Language · Language Arts · Language Arts & Disciplines · Literacy · Old Norse language · Oudnoords · Scandinavian Languages (Other) · Syntaxis
On the development of definiteness markers in Scandinavian
Inflectional morphology in Mecha Oromo
The Definiteness Cycle in Germanic
The noun phrase and the ‘Viking Hypothesis’
I gave it him — on the motivation of the ‘alternative double object construction’ in varieties of British English
The Old English Prefix ge
The convergence process between Faroese and Faro-Danish
Reunited after 1000 years. The development of definite articles in Icelandic
On the Rich Agreement Hypothesis and varieties of embedded V2
Prescriptive infinitives in the modern North Germanic languages
Dative case in Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese
Parameters in minimalist theory
The correspondence problem in syntactic reconstruction
Reflexive pronouns in the Lindisfarne glosses
Arrested development
Growing syntax
On the history of definiteness marking in Scandinavian
The Clitic-Affix Distinction, Historical Change, and Scandinavian Bound Definiteness Marking
Null Subjects in Early Icelandic
English is (still) a West Germanic language
Philologie et syntaxe comparée des états anciens du germanique
Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |