Icelandic declarative V1 a brief overview Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann Page 1 Icelandic
declarative V1 a brief overview Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann 2018 Document Version …

The Icelandic case system presents an interesting linguistic puzzle. Languages tend to use
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We present the results of research on two areas of Icelandic historical syntax: dative subjects
and V1 word order. These strands of syntax had previously been examined independently …

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The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative
literature (eg Sigurðsson 1990, Franco 2008), and such structures are known to be more …

Icelandic is very well known for non-nominative subjects. In recent years, it has been
proposed that dative subjects are a Proto-Indo European feature, and that a Dative Subject …

In this paper we present a case study in which Visual Analytic methods for interactive data
exploration are applied to the study of historical linguistics. We discuss why diachronic …