title: The prepositional absolute construction in Icelandic
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metadata.value: Thórhallur Eythórsson
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-08-06T16:17:54Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-08-06T16:17:54Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Thórhallur Eythórsson, Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir. The prepositional absolute construction in Icelandic. Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 3–18.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14677
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Prepositional Absolute Construction (PAC) in Modern Icelandic can be
  defined as a small clause containing a subject NP and a non-finite verb (a present
  or past participle) whose case is governed by the preposition að ‘at’. Giving a
  brief historical overview of the PAC in Old Norse, we show how it differs from the
  construction in Modern Icelandic. In Old Icelandic, both dative and accusative NPs are
  attested in the PAC whereas in Modern Icelandic only dative NPs are found. Moreover,
  the distribution of the present and past participles are different in Old and Modern
  Icelandic. In addition, we discuss analogous constructions in a few related languages,
  both within Germanic (Gothic, Old High German, Old Frisian and Old English), as
  well as outside of Germanic (e.g., Latin and Greek). The main emphasis, however, is
  on a description of the PAC in Modern Icelandic based on a detailed web study of the
  relevant constructions. This method was chosen because it was found to be the best way
  to demonstrate the fact that the PAC is relatively commonly used in Modern Icelandic,
  both in formal and informal language situations. Most of the examples presented in
  this connection are from the web study, and others were reviewed by a small number
  of speakers in an informal acceptability study. Among the issues considered is the
  syntactic function of the small clause, the valency of the verbs in the PAC and the
  possible word order patterns within the construction.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old English
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Prepositional Absolute Construction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: small clause
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: valency
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: government
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: accusative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: word order pattern
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The prepositional absolute construction in Icelandic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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