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By Höskuldur Thráinsson

Icelandic is a syntactically attention-grabbing language, with facets of its note order, clause constitution, contract styles and case process arousing a lot theoretical curiosity and debate in recent times. this can be an informative and available advisor to the constitution of Icelandic, focusing specifically on these features that experience contributed drastically to syntactic examine. each one bankruptcy is split into major sections - supplying either a descriptive evaluation and a dialogue of the theoretical and comparative concerns concerned - and quite a lot of themes are lined, together with case, contract, grammatical relatives, thematic roles, observe order, clause constitution, fronting, extraposition, supplement, adjuncts, pronouns, and inflection. additionally explored intimately are the similarities and adjustments among Icelandic and different similar languages. Presupposing just a easy wisdom of syntax and whole with an in depth bibliography, this entire survey may be an incredible device for all these engaged on the constitution of Scandinavian and Germanic languages.

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