- Opin vísindi
- →
- Browsing by Subject
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing by Subject "Málvísindi"
Now showing items 1-18 of 18
-
(Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, 2018)This article deals with the history and word formation of the Icelandic word for ‘police’, i.e. lögregla. The word constitutes an interesting case of word formation in that said lexeme is a dvandva compound whose creation is related to the expression að ... -
(Edizioni dell'Orso, 2019)
-
(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)The Icelandic case marking system has for decades proved an important testing ground for theories on case and productivity. This is in part because Icelandic has the rare property of marking argument function redundantly, with both rich morphological ...
-
(GRIMM: The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2017-12)This paper aims at giving a comprehensive and current overview of the key empirical facts regarding embedded V2 and V3 in Icelandic, including age-related variation, and to compare this to what has been shown for other Scandinavian varieties. It is ...
-
(2023-05-22)For machine translation (MT) systems to produce accurate and fluent translations, reliable parallel corpora are key. Errors, due to misalignments or inadequate filtering during compilation of a parallel corpus, can have detrimental effects on the ...
-
(Penn Graduate Linguistics Society, 2018-03-30)In this paper, I derive the asymmetries in morphosyntactic behaviors of synthetic and primary compounds through differences in terms of their formation. Following that, I examine how the resulting structures may regulate the interactions between the ...
-
(Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute, 2018-12)The article investigates differences in the use of the historical present tense in the earliest manuscripts of Njál's saga. The manuscripts analyzed show a common stock of forms of the historical present tense that can be explained discourse functionally ...
-
(2023-10-16)A central question concerning language is “Where does meaning come from?”. This thesis addresses the question by considering the concept of colour and the vocabulary in Icelandic which falls within this semantic space. The research involves biological, ...
-
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2017-09-02)This article discusses Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík (1705–1779), a prominent spokesperson for purism and language cultivation in eighteenth-century Iceland. Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue is investigated here by discussing several representative ...
-
(Language Centre – University of Cyprus, 2018)The present article deals with the development of basic linguistic terminology in Icelandic. Such terminology pertains to five categories (general, graphematics, phonetics, morphology and lexicon) and has been collected from 19 different sources from ...
-
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-12-23)In this paper I review the locality domains of contextual allomorphy, contextual allosemy and morphophonology with a special emphasis on compounds. I show that when the applications of these processes within compounds are compared, we observe a distinction ...
-
(2015-01)The ability to repair problems with hearing or understanding in conversation is critical for successful communication. This article describes the linguistic practices of other-initiated repair (OIR) in Icelandic through quantitative and qualitative ...
-
(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-10-06)The present dissertation concerns formal aspects of Polish borrowing in 21st-century Wymysorys – a minority Germanic language spoken by a few dozen people in the town of Wilamowice in Poland. By drawing on modern borrowing theories and his own empirical ...
-
(2015-01)En este artículo se estudia la presencia en las lenguas nórdicas – el danés, el islandés, el noruego y el sueco– de voces amerindias del Perú. Se trata de palabras de origen aimara y quechua que han penetrado en las lenguas nórdicas a través del ...
-
(GRIMM: The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2017-06)The purpose of this paper is (i) to locate Övdalian among the Scandinavian languages with regard to verbal morphology and embedded V2, and (ii) to formalize and test hypotheses predicting that languages/dialects that have the relevant morphological ...
-
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018-06-20)This article presents two essays by the renowned Icelandic manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663 ‒ 1730): De gothicæ lingvæ nomine [On the expression ‘the Gothic language’] and Annotationes aliqvot de lingvis et migrationibus gentium septentrionalium ...
-
(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023-04-05)Abstract The theoretical aim of this project is to get a better understanding of the so called weight effects illustrated in examples like the following (? = a questionable example, * = a bad example, ** = an even worse example; brackets enclose the ...
-
(Linguistic Society of America, 2018-03-03)The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued tovary between a high (num) and a low position, which Kramer (2014) associates with n, providing the root with a syntactic category. We argue that Linking Morphemes (L) in Dutch provide ...
Now showing items 1-18 of 18