%0 Journal Article
%T Verb particles in Older Icelandic
%A Thorbj£¿rg Hr¨®arsd¨®ttir
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2008
%I University of Troms?
%X Older Icelandic had various word order patterns with verb particles, including both pre- and postverbal particles. The most frequent patterns in the attested corpus show a preverbal particle and a postverbal direct object, or a preverbal particle and a preverbal direct object. In the earliest texts, dating from the fourteenth century, preverbal particles are preferred over postverbal particles, although both pre- and postverbal particles co-exist in the corpus for several centuries. In this paper, we will shown how a small clause analysis of verb particles, together with a remnant VP movement framework (Hr¨®arsd¨®ttir 2000) can account for the attested orders of verb particles in the history of Icelandic.
%K Head movement
%K Older Icelandic
%K OV order
%K remnant movement
%K small clause
%K verb particles
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/143