Publikation: Revisiting the configurationality issue in Old Icelandic
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The status of Old Icelandic with respect to (argument) configurationality was hotly debated in the early 1990s (e.g. Faarlund 1990; Rögnvaldsson 1995) and remains unresolved. Since this work, further research on a wide range of languages has enhanced our understanding of configurationality, in particular within Lexical Functional Grammar (e.g. Austin & Bresnan 1996; Nordlinger 1998) and syntactically annotated Old Icelandic data are now available (Wallenberg et al. 2011). It is thus fitting to revisit the matter. In this paper, I show that allowing for argument configurationality as a gradient property, and also considering discourse configurationality (Kiss 1995) as a further gradient property, can neatly account for word order patterns in this early stage of Icelandic, as well as the nuanced differences with the modern language. The positional distribution of subjects and objects, as well as previous studies on the diachrony of case and grammatical relations, indicates that Old Icelandic was subtly less configurational than the modern language. Furthermore, the observed word order patterns indicate a designated topic position in the postfinite domain, thus reflecting some degree of discourse configurationality at this early stage of the language.
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BOOTH, Hannah, 2021. Revisiting the configurationality issue in Old Icelandic. In: Glossa : a journal of general linguistics. Open Library of the Humanities. 2021, 6(1), 130. eISSN 2397-1835. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.16995/glossa.5804BibTex
@article{Booth2021-12-17Revis-70752, year={2021}, doi={10.16995/glossa.5804}, title={Revisiting the configurationality issue in Old Icelandic}, number={1}, volume={6}, journal={Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, author={Booth, Hannah}, note={Article Number: 130} }
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