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Informationen zum Autor Jan Terje Faarlund is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, University of Oslo. He previously held the same position at the University of Trondheim, and was Professor of Linguistics and Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago, where he is still affiliated as a research associate in the Department of Linguistics. Klappentext This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language and the author is able to present a comprehensive analysis of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He supports his analyses with examples taken from Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript editions. Professor Faarlund's approach is descriptive! in a generative framework with a minimum of technical detail. He includes a complete bibliography of Old Norse syntax. The book is intended for advanced students and scholars of historical linguistics! Germanic and Scandinavian languages! Norse philology! and all others with a serious interest in Nordic languages! civilizations! and history. Zusammenfassung This is the first account of Old Norse for a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. It presents a full analysis of Old Norse syntax and succinct descriptions of its phonology and morphology.Old Norse was the language of the Vikings and the Old Icelandic sagas and is the best documented medieval Germanic language. Professor Faarlund supports his analysis with numerous prose examples taken from the most reliable Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript editions. His approach is descriptive, set in a framework of generative grammar with technical details kept to a minimum. He includes a complete bibliography of the syntax of Old Norse. This book will interest students and scholars of Nordic languages, civilizations, and history as well as those studying historical linguistics, diachronic syntax, and Germanic and Scandinavian languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations and Sources 1: Introduction 2: Phonology 3: Inflectional Morphology 4: The Noun Phrase 5: Determiner Phrases 6: The Adjective Phrase 7: The Prepositional Phrase 8: The Verb Phrase 9: The Finite Sentence 10: Subordinate Clauses 11: Reflexive Binding Bibliography of Old Norse Syntax Subject Index Word Index ...
