Introduction.- 1.1 Aim and Scope.- 1.2 The Present System.- 1.2.1 Syntax.
- 1.2.2 The Syntactic Pieces.- 1.2.3 Morphology.- 1.2.
4 Semantics.- 1.2.5 Interpretation and Allosemy.- 1.2.6 What Are 'Argument Structure Alternations'?.- 1.
3 On the Data.- 1.4 A Brief Overview of Icelandic Morphosyntax.- 1.4.1 Oblique Subjects and Case Morphology.- 1.4.
2 Expletive Constructions.- 1.4.3 Verb Movement and Word Order.- 1.4.4 Simplex, Complex, and Long- Distance Reflexives.- 1.
4.5 Progressive Aspect.- 1.4.6 The New Impersonal Passive and Dative-Accusative Constructions.- 1.5 Outline of the Remainder of the Book.- 2.
The Morphosyntax of -st .- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 On -st Morphology: What -st is and isn't.- 2.2.1 Reflexive -st Verbs.
- 2.2.2 -st is Not (Usually) Passive.- 2.2.3 -st Appears to be Caseless.- 2.2.
4 -st Has One or More -Features.- 2.3 Clitic properties of -st .- 2.3.1 Positioning and distributional properties.- 2.3.
2 Paradigmatic properties- the 'form' of -st .- 2.3.3 Morphophonological properties.- 2.3.4 Inherent -st Verbs.- 2.
3.5 The Idiosyncrasy of -st : Special Meaning is No Special Problem.- 2.3.6 Alternating with a 'word'.- 2.3.7 Summary.
- 2.4 Possible Clitic Analysis of -st .- 2.4.1 Right Adjunction.- 2.4.2 Defective Goal.
- 2.4.3 Adjunction to X' or Movement to Dedicated Specifier Position.- 2.5 Does it matter if -st is a clitic?.- 2.6 Summary.- 3.
DP Internal Argument - The Causative Alternation.- 3.1 An Overview of the Causative Alternation.- 3.2 Morphology of Specifierless Voice.- 3.2.1 Unmarked Alternations and -ka Suffixation.
- 3.2.2 -na- Marked Alternations.- 3.2.3 Allomorphy-Marked Alternations.- 3.2.
4 Summary.- 3.3 Direct Object Datives and Anticausatives.- 3.4 Thematic Interpretation of Causatives/Anticausatives.- 3.4.1 -st Marked Anticausatives.
- 3.4.2 -nalØ -Marked Anticausatives.- 3.4.3 Specifierless Voice Versus no Voice at all.- 3.4.
4 Summary.- 3.4.5 Root Distribution in Anticlausatives.- 3.4.6 Anticausative -st vis-à- vis a DP in SpecVoiceP.- 3.
5 Summary.- 4. pP Internal Argument - Figure Reflexives and Object 'Demotion'.- 4.1 An Overview of the Syntax of Figure and Ground.- 4.2 Thematic Interpretation of Figure Reflexives.- 4.
2.1 -st-Marked Figure Reflexives.- 4.2.2 Unmarked Figure Reflexives.- 4.2.3 Figure Reflexives vis-à- vis Reflexive Pronouns.
- 4.2.4 Root Distribution in Figure Reflexives.- 4.3 Expletive p.- 4.3.1 Internal Argument 'Demotion'.
- 4.3.2 Expletive Voice and Expletive p Together.- 4.4 Summary.- 5. Applicatives and Applied Datives.- 5.
1 A Typology of Icelandic Applicatives.- 5.1.1 High Applicatives.- 5.1.2 Low Applicatives.- 5.
1.3 High-Low Applicatives.- 5.2 "Valency Reduction" of ApplP.- 5.2.1 Anticausatives of Ditransitives.- 5.
2.2 *-st in SpecApplP.- 5.2.3 Ingestives and Specerfierless Appl.- 5.2.4 Root Distribution in Ingestives.
- 5.3 Psych-Verbs with Dative Subjects.- 5.4 Summary.- 6. More on the Syntax of -st Verbs.- 6.1 Denominal -st Verbs.
- 6.2 Modal Passive -st Verbs and Generic Middles.- 6.3 Causative Láta 'Let'and -st Verbs.- 6.4 Reciprocal -st Verbs.- 6.5 Other Reflexive -st Verbs.
- Conclusion.- References.- Index.