Icelandic

Abstract: A language independent model for recognition and production of word forms is presented. This "two-level model" is based on a new way of describing morphological alternations. All rules describing the morphophonological variations are parallel and relatively independent of each other. Individual rules are implemented as finite state automata, as in an earlier model due to Martin Kay and Ron Kaplan. The two-level model has been implemented as an operational computer programs in several places. A number of operational two-level descriptions have been written or are in progress (Finnish, English, Japanese, Rumanian, French, Swedish, Old Church Slavonic, Greek, Lappish, Arabic, Icelandic). The model is bidirectional and it is capable of both analyzing and synthesizing word-forms.

Abstract: Abstract This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of principles and parameters (also known as the "government-binding theory") to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.

Abstract: Part 1. To Be or Not To Be an NP: An Overview of Icelandic Complement Structures 1. Phrase Form Structure 2. Transformational Evidence Part 2. Complement Types and Complement Rules 3. Selection of Complement Clause Types 4. Extraposition 5. Equi and Infinitival Complements 6. Subject Raising Part 3. Some Implications and Suggestions 7. Impersonal Constructions

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Word order and clause structure 3. Order of elements within the phrases 4. Case, agreement, grammatical relations and thematic roles 5. Passives, middles and unaccusatives 6. Expletive constructions and clause structure 7. Fronting, focussing, extraposition and NP-shift 8. Finite and non-finite complements and adjuncts 9. Pronouns, reflexives and empty categories.