Kristján Árnason
Biographic Data
| ID | 5889823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristján Árnason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristján |
| FAMILY NAME | Árnason |
| SIGNATURE | ARNASON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Icelandic in late modernity
Social changes in late modernity have implications for the ways in which variation in Icelandic language use comes to be associated with different modes of communication, and for the labelling of forms in terms of “correctness” or “purity”. While a conception of “standard” still seems to prevail, there is continual transition as regards which particular linguistic traits and practices serve as manifestations of “standard language use”. A diachron…
The North Atlantic and the Arctic
Goidelic word stress is initial but with some signs of quantity sensitivity. Phrasal intonation tends to be falling (for both declaratives and questions) in southern Irish dialects but rising in northern ones. Interrogativity is marked by phonetic adjustments in initial or final accents of the utterance. Icelandic and Faroese have traditional word-initial stress-to-weight but show signs of penultimate stress patterns in loanwords. Intonation is c…
Vernacular and classical strands in Icelandic poetics and grammar in the Middle Ages
Medieval Icelandic grammar and poetics based their analysis, to a great extent, on traditional Nordic scholarship. In poetics, Snorra Edda was central, but insights from Classical learning were used to supplement it in the Third and the Fourth Grammatical Treatises . A comparison between Snorri’s description of metrical form in Háttatal and Latin metrics reveals fundamental differences. In the Nordic system, the emphasis is on alliteration and rh…
The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese
The book presents a detailed comparative description of the phonological structure of Icelandic and Faroese and discusses problems in their analysis from a fairly broad theoretical perspective. The first part (Chapters 1–3) describes the historical relation between the languages and introduces some issues regarding their phonological analysis. Part II (Chapters 4–7) gives an overview of the segmental inventory of the two sound systems. Part III (…
The rise of the quatrain in Germanic
Icelandic
Kuhn's Laws in Old Icelandic Prose and Poetry
The paper is intended to shed light on the so-called Kuhn's laws pertaining to early Germanic word order and intonation. This is done by investigating the metrical function of different morphosyntactic categories in Old Icelandic meters and interpreting their behavior on the basis of insights from modern intonational phonology. Verb forms belonging to independent clauses cannot fill the last foot in lines in dróttkvætt poetry. This is taken to sh…
Wordstress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages
The Rhythms of Dróttkvætt and Other Old Icelandic Metres
The Segmental and Superasegmental Status of Preaspiration in Modern Icelandic
The paper discusses the historical origin, present day distribution and prosodic status of preaspiration in Icelandic. Having developed as a movement of the openness of the glottis, originally a feature of “hard” stops, towards the nucleus of the stressed syllable, its distribution must be accounted for by a “segmental” rule operating on historical (underlying) hard stops. Its status with respect to length and stress is, however, shown to be that…
Quantity in Historical Phonology
Palatalization in modern Icelandic
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Palatalization in modern Icelandic
Quantity in Historical Phonology
The Segmental and Superasegmental Status of Preaspiration in Modern Icelandic
The paper discusses the historical origin, present day distribution and prosodic status of preaspiration in Icelandic. Having developed as a movement of the openness of the glottis, originally a feature of “hard” stops, towards the nucleus of the stressed syllable, its distribution must be accounted for by a “segmental” rule operating on historical (underlying) hard stops. Its status with respect to length and stress is, however, shown to be that…
The Rhythms of Dróttkvætt and Other Old Icelandic Metres
Wordstress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages
Kuhn's Laws in Old Icelandic Prose and Poetry
The paper is intended to shed light on the so-called Kuhn's laws pertaining to early Germanic word order and intonation. This is done by investigating the metrical function of different morphosyntactic categories in Old Icelandic meters and interpreting their behavior on the basis of insights from modern intonational phonology. Verb forms belonging to independent clauses cannot fill the last foot in lines in dróttkvætt poetry. This is taken to sh…
Icelandic
The rise of the quatrain in Germanic
The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese
The book presents a detailed comparative description of the phonological structure of Icelandic and Faroese and discusses problems in their analysis from a fairly broad theoretical perspective. The first part (Chapters 1–3) describes the historical relation between the languages and introduces some issues regarding their phonological analysis. Part II (Chapters 4–7) gives an overview of the segmental inventory of the two sound systems. Part III (…
Vernacular and classical strands in Icelandic poetics and grammar in the Middle Ages
Medieval Icelandic grammar and poetics based their analysis, to a great extent, on traditional Nordic scholarship. In poetics, Snorra Edda was central, but insights from Classical learning were used to supplement it in the Third and the Fourth Grammatical Treatises . A comparison between Snorri’s description of metrical form in Háttatal and Latin metrics reveals fundamental differences. In the Nordic system, the emphasis is on alliteration and rh…
The North Atlantic and the Arctic
Goidelic word stress is initial but with some signs of quantity sensitivity. Phrasal intonation tends to be falling (for both declaratives and questions) in southern Irish dialects but rising in northern ones. Interrogativity is marked by phonetic adjustments in initial or final accents of the utterance. Icelandic and Faroese have traditional word-initial stress-to-weight but show signs of penultimate stress patterns in loanwords. Intonation is c…
Icelandic in late modernity
Social changes in late modernity have implications for the ways in which variation in Icelandic language use comes to be associated with different modes of communication, and for the labelling of forms in terms of “correctness” or “purity”. While a conception of “standard” still seems to prevail, there is continual transition as regards which particular linguistic traits and practices serve as manifestations of “standard language use”. A diachron…
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · History (11 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (10 works) · Icelandic (9 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Phonology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)