ABSTRACT

This study deals with the complementation of verbs in Icelandic. The main emphasis is on clausal complements of verbs and the syntactic rules that operate in and on such complements. This study is written with two kinds of readers in mind. First, it is written for the theoretical linguist who is looking for phenomena of general theoretical interest, i.e. facts about Icelandic syntax that bear on the question what an adequate general linguistic theory must be like and hence shed some light on the nature of human language. Second, the study is also written with a different kind of reader in mind, namely a reader who is interested in Icelandic syntax in particular, perhaps from a more descriptive point of view.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

part I|129 pages

To Be or not To Be an NP

chapter 1|43 pages

Phrase Structure Evidence

chapter 2|81 pages

Transformational Evidence

part II|323 pages

Complement Types and Complement Rules

chapter 3|16 pages

Selection of Complement Clause Types

chapter 4|109 pages

Extraposition

chapter 5|67 pages

Equi and Infinitival Complements

chapter 6|129 pages

Subject Raising

part III|29 pages

Some Implications and Suggestions

chapter 7|27 pages

Impersonal Constructions