The Icelandic New Passive1 is a syntactic variant which first appeared around 1950 (Maling and Sigurjónsdóttir 2002). Since its emergence, The New Passive (NP) has been gaining ground at the expense of a functionally equivalent Canonical Passive (CP). The rapid spread of the NP is exemplified by a striking generational difference. Young speakers are much more likely to use th
As is well-known, in Oid English there were severe consírainís on Ihe lype of NP thaI eould become s...
This dissertation presents a semantic analysis of the progressive of both English and Icelandic, the...
The main question to be addressed in this paper is, why does accusative case systematically ‘go away...
The Icelandic New Passive1 is a syntactic variant which first appeared around 1950 (Maling and Sigur...
Abstract. The so-called New Passive in Icelandic takes the form it was elected us (or, e.g., then w...
The Reflexive Passive in Icelandic is reminiscent of the so-called New Passive (or New Impersonal) i...
• Introduction: What is the “The New (Impersonal) Passive ” like? • Overview of ideas about the orig...
This paper discusses a new impersonal construction in Icelandic. This construction has passive morph...
This paper argues that Jcelandic impersonal passives have a constructional property that expresses g...
English has a class of ‘get’-passives which are not widely found in the rest of Germanic, as illustr...
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some l...
The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative litera...
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some la...
We argue that there exist two kinds of passive structures, a) one generated in the base b) the other...
It is a general and undoubtedly true assumption that the passive has a higher frequency in Danish th...
As is well-known, in Oid English there were severe consírainís on Ihe lype of NP thaI eould become s...
This dissertation presents a semantic analysis of the progressive of both English and Icelandic, the...
The main question to be addressed in this paper is, why does accusative case systematically ‘go away...
The Icelandic New Passive1 is a syntactic variant which first appeared around 1950 (Maling and Sigur...
Abstract. The so-called New Passive in Icelandic takes the form it was elected us (or, e.g., then w...
The Reflexive Passive in Icelandic is reminiscent of the so-called New Passive (or New Impersonal) i...
• Introduction: What is the “The New (Impersonal) Passive ” like? • Overview of ideas about the orig...
This paper discusses a new impersonal construction in Icelandic. This construction has passive morph...
This paper argues that Jcelandic impersonal passives have a constructional property that expresses g...
English has a class of ‘get’-passives which are not widely found in the rest of Germanic, as illustr...
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some l...
The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative litera...
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some la...
We argue that there exist two kinds of passive structures, a) one generated in the base b) the other...
It is a general and undoubtedly true assumption that the passive has a higher frequency in Danish th...
As is well-known, in Oid English there were severe consírainís on Ihe lype of NP thaI eould become s...
This dissertation presents a semantic analysis of the progressive of both English and Icelandic, the...
The main question to be addressed in this paper is, why does accusative case systematically ‘go away...