Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure

Introduction.- 1.1 Aim and Scope.- 1.2 The Present System.- 1.2.1 Syntax.- 1.2.2 The Syntactic Pieces.- 1.2.3 Morphology.- 1.2.4 Semantics.- 1.2.5 Interpretation and Allosemy.- 1.2.6 What Are ‘Argument Structure Alternations’?.- 1.3 On the Data.- 1.4 A Brief Overview of Icelandic Morphosyntax.- 1.4.1 Oblique Subjects and Case Morphology.- 1.4.2 Expletive Constructions.- 1.4.3 Verb Movement and Word Order.- 1.4.4 Simplex, Complex, and Long- Distance Reflexives.- 1.4.5 Progressive Aspect.- 1.4.6 The New Impersonal Passive and Dative-Accusative Constructions.- 1.5 Outline of the Remainder of the Book.- 2. The Morphosyntax of –st.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 On –st Morphology: What –st is and isn’t.- 2.2.1 Reflexive –st Verbs.- 2.2.2 –st is Not (Usually) Passive.- 2.2.3 –st Appears to be Caseless.- 2.2.4 –st Has One or More ϕ-Features.- 2.3 Clitic properties of –st.- 2.3.1 Positioning and distributional properties.- 2.3.2 Paradigmatic properties- the ‘form’ of –st.- 2.3.3 Morphophonological properties.- 2.3.4 Inherent –st Verbs.- 2.3.5 The Idiosyncrasy of –st: Special Meaning is No Special Problem.- 2.3.6 Alternating with a ‘word’.- 2.3.7 Summary.- 2.4 Possible Clitic Analysis of –st.- 2.4.1 Right Adjunction.- 2.4.2 Defective Goal.- 2.4.3 Adjunction to X’ or Movement to Dedicated Specifier Position.- 2.5 Does it matter if –st is a clitic?.- 2.6 Summary.- 3. DP Internal Argument – The Causative Alternation.- 3.1 An Overview of the Causative Alternation.- 3.2 Morphology of Specifierless Voice.- 3.2.1 Unmarked Alternations and –ka Suffixation.- 3.2.2 –na- Marked Alternations.- 3.2.3 Allomorphy-Marked Alternations.- 3.2.4 Summary.- 3.3 Direct Object Datives and Anticausatives.- 3.4 Thematic Interpretation of Causatives/Anticausatives.- 3.4.1 –st Marked Anticausatives.- 3.4.2 –nalØ-Marked Anticausatives.- 3.4.3 Specifierless Voice Versus no Voice at all.- 3.4.4 Summary.- 3.4.5 Root Distribution in Anticlausatives.- 3.4.6 Anticausative –st vis-à- vis a DP in SpecVoiceP.- 3.5 Summary.- 4. pP Internal Argument – Figure Reflexives and Object  ‘Demotion’.- 4.1 An Overview of the Syntax of Figure and Ground.- 4.2 Thematic Interpretation of Figure Reflexives.- 4.2.1 –st-Marked Figure Reflexives.- 4.2.2 Unmarked Figure Reflexives.- 4.2.3 Figure Reflexives vis-à- vis Reflexive Pronouns.- 4.2.4 Root Distribution in Figure Reflexives.- 4.3 Expletive p.- 4.3.1 Internal Argument  ‘Demotion’.- 4.3.2 Expletive Voice and Expletive p Together.- 4.4 Summary.- 5. Applicatives and Applied Datives.- 5.1 A Typology of Icelandic Applicatives.- 5.1.1 High Applicatives.- 5.1.2 Low Applicatives.- 5.1.3 High-Low Applicatives.- 5.2 “Valency Reduction” of ApplP.- 5.2.1 Anticausatives of Ditransitives.- 5.2.2 *-st in SpecApplP.- 5.2.3 Ingestives and Specerfierless Appl.- 5.2.4 Root Distribution in Ingestives.- 5.3 Psych-Verbs with Dative Subjects.- 5.4 Summary.- 6. More on the Syntax of –st Verbs.- 6.1 Denominal –st Verbs.- 6.2 Modal Passive –st Verbs and Generic Middles.- 6.3 Causative Láta ‘Let’and –st Verbs.- 6.4 Reciprocal –st Verbs.- 6.5 Other Reflexive –st Verbs.- Conclusion.- References.- Index