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Expletives in Icelandic

A corpus study
  • Hannah Booth
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Historical Linguistics 2017
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Abstract

Various claims have been made concerning expletives in historical Icelandic (Eythórsson & Sigurðardóttir, 2016; Hróarsdóttir, 1998; Rögnvaldsson, 2002). However, previous studies are limited to certain centuries and/or text types. This paper assesses the status of expletives throughout all stages of attested Icelandic (1150–2008) using the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC). The IcePaHC data indicates that the expletive is already attested in impersonal constructions in Old Icelandic, contra previous accounts. I also claim that þar ‘there’ was historically available as an expletive in presentational constructions and argue against a recent claim that the emergence of expletive það is a contact phenomenon. Strikingly, postfinite expletives are attested historically, which challenges the standard cross-Germanic account for the diachrony of expletives.

Abstract

Various claims have been made concerning expletives in historical Icelandic (Eythórsson & Sigurðardóttir, 2016; Hróarsdóttir, 1998; Rögnvaldsson, 2002). However, previous studies are limited to certain centuries and/or text types. This paper assesses the status of expletives throughout all stages of attested Icelandic (1150–2008) using the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC). The IcePaHC data indicates that the expletive is already attested in impersonal constructions in Old Icelandic, contra previous accounts. I also claim that þar ‘there’ was historically available as an expletive in presentational constructions and argue against a recent claim that the emergence of expletive það is a contact phenomenon. Strikingly, postfinite expletives are attested historically, which challenges the standard cross-Germanic account for the diachrony of expletives.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword & Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Case & argument structure
  6. Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties 9
  7. Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical Greek 29
  8. Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European 49
  9. Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective 65
  10. ‘Liking’ constructions in Spanish 81
  11. Part II. Alignment & Diathesis
  12. The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance 109
  13. Ergative from passive in Proto-Basque 143
  14. Part III. Patterns, paradigms, & restructuring
  15. Synchrony, diachrony, and indexicality 163
  16. Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and Luxembourgish 183
  17. Remotivating inflectional classes 205
  18. From noun to quantifier 229
  19. Part IV. Grammaticalization & construction grammar
  20. Old French si , grammaticalisation, and the interconnectedness of change 253
  21. The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages 273
  22. On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic 293
  23. Atomizing linguistic change 317
  24. Part V. Corpus linguistics & morphosyntax
  25. The rich get richer 343
  26. Expletives in Icelandic 363
  27. Part VI. Languages in contact
  28. Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects 387
  29. Copying of argument structure 409
  30. Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /ɑ/ in Quảng Nam Vietnamese 431
  31. The future markers in Palestinian Arabic: 453
  32. Neuters to none 473
  33. Index 489
  34. Languages & language families 493
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.350.17boo

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword & Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Case & argument structure
  6. Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties 9
  7. Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical Greek 29
  8. Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European 49
  9. Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective 65
  10. ‘Liking’ constructions in Spanish 81
  11. Part II. Alignment & Diathesis
  12. The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance 109
  13. Ergative from passive in Proto-Basque 143
  14. Part III. Patterns, paradigms, & restructuring
  15. Synchrony, diachrony, and indexicality 163
  16. Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and Luxembourgish 183
  17. Remotivating inflectional classes 205
  18. From noun to quantifier 229
  19. Part IV. Grammaticalization & construction grammar
  20. Old French si , grammaticalisation, and the interconnectedness of change 253
  21. The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages 273
  22. On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic 293
  23. Atomizing linguistic change 317
  24. Part V. Corpus linguistics & morphosyntax
  25. The rich get richer 343
  26. Expletives in Icelandic 363
  27. Part VI. Languages in contact
  28. Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects 387
  29. Copying of argument structure 409
  30. Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /ɑ/ in Quảng Nam Vietnamese 431
  31. The future markers in Palestinian Arabic: 453
  32. Neuters to none 473
  33. Index 489
  34. Languages & language families 493
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