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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Icelandic; for discussion, see Section 2.2.1.1 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: mentioned in multiple sources but few detailed studies
- Current bibliographic coverage: essentially complete
- Total references: 32
- Last updated: December 2022, minor changes and reorganization from dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.1.1
Summary
In modern Icelandic, pseudocoordination is very limited compared to the mainland Scandinavian languages and Faroese; there is at least limited usage of SIT AND, though not as grammaticalized as in the other languages; limited pseudocoordination has also been reported in early Icelandic (see also Old Norse).
SIT AND: primary references
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín M. 2006. Posture verbs in Icelandic. In Claire Gurski & Milica Radišić (eds.), Actes du congrès de l’Association canadienne de linguistique 2006. https://cla-acl.ca/actes/actes-2006-proceedings.html
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín M. 2007. The Posture verb progressive in Icelandic. In Louise McNally & Estela Puig-Waldmüller (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, 361–374. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2007.v11i0.651
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín M. 2007. The progressive constructions and frequency adverbs in Icelandic. Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics 1: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Northwest Linguistics Conference. 145–155. https://www.sfu.ca/gradlings/working-papers/wp_1.html (accessed June 19, 2021 [archived version]).
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín M. 2011. Aspects of the progressive in English and Icelandic. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Ph.D. dissertation. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0072196
SIT AND: secondary references
Bertinetto, Pier Marco, Karen H. Ebert & Casper de Groot. 2000. The progressive in Europe. In Östen Dahl (ed.), Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe, 517–558. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197099.4.517 [Pages 523,528]
Ebert, Karen H. 2000. Progressive markers in Germanic languages. In Östen Dahl (ed.), Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe, 605–653. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197099.4.605 [Pages 607,609,639]
Haugen, Einar. 1976. The Scandinavian Languages: An Introduction to Their History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [Page 80]
Hesse, Andrea. 2009. Zur Grammatikalisierung der Pseudokoordination im Norwegischen und in den anderen skandinavischen Sprachen. Tübingen: Francke. [Pages 229–232]
Josefsson, Gunlög. 1991. Pseudocoordination - A VP + VP coordination. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 47. 130–156. [Pages 151–152]
Ross, Daniel & Helge Lødrup. 2017. SIT as a progressive marker in pseudocoordination? Presented at PseCoMAC 2017: Workshop on Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, May 3, 2017.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 1996. Pseudocoordination is subordination. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 58. 29–53.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 1998. Pseudocoordination; Coordination or Subordination? In Timo Haukioja (ed.), Papers from the 16th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, 462–473. Turku: Department of Finnish and General Linguistics of the University of Turku.
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2007. The syntax of tenselessness: tense/mood/aspect-agreeing infinitivals. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197839 [Pages 191–192]
Possible motion pseudocoordination
Usage of the type 'go/come and' is attested but not clearly grammaticalized.
Thráinsson, Höskuldur. 1994. Icelandic. In Johan van der Auwera & Ekkehard König (eds.), The Germanic languages, 142–189. London: Routledge. [Page 182]
Thráinsson, Höskuldur. 2007. The syntax of Icelandic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511619441 [Pages 6,349]
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2008. Creating Surprise in Complex Predication. Nordlyd 35(1). 163–187. https://doi.org/10.7557/12.141 [Page 165]
Wiklund, Anna-Lena. 2009. The syntax of surprise: Unexpected event readings in complex predication. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 84. 181–224. https://projekt.ht.lu.se/grimm/scandiasyn/working-papers-in-scandinavian-syntax/wpss-84 [Page 184]
Zaenen, Annie, Elisabet Engdahl & Joan Maling. 2017. Subject properties in presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 8: The very model of a modern linguist — in honor of Helge Dyvik. 260–281. https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v8i1.1335 [Pages 264–265]
Historical usage of progressive vera at ok 'be to and' in early Icelandic
Benediktsson, Hreinn. 1976. Ísl. vera að+nafnh.: aldur og uppruni. In Gösta Holm, Lars Svensson, Anne Marie Wieselgren & Åke Hansson (eds.), Nordiska studier i filologi och lingvistik: festskrift tillägnad Gösta Holm på 60-årsdagen den 8 juli 1976, 25–47. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [Pages 29–30,40–43]
Hesse, Andrea. 2009. Zur Grammatikalisierung der Pseudokoordination im Norwegischen und in den anderen skandinavischen Sprachen. Tübingen: Francke. [Page 149]
Poppe, Erich. 2003. Progress on the Progressive? A Report. In Hildegard L. C. Tristram (ed.), The Celtic Englishes III, 65–84. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter. [Page 69]
Sandøy, Helge. 1979. Ein Vest-Nordisk Aspektkonstruksjon. In Thore Pettersson (ed.), Aspectology: workshop at the fifth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Frostavallen, April 27-29, 1979, 69–109. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell international.
Sandøy, Helge. 1986. “Han er at og kjem seg”: om ein vestnordisk aspektkonstruksjon. Bergen: Nordisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen.
Transitive TAKE NP AND construction
Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur. 1990. Null objects in Icelandic. In Joan Maling & Annie Zaenen (eds.), Syntax and Semantics 24: Modern Icelandic Syntax, 367–379. San Diego: Academia Press.
Thráinsson, Höskuldur. 1994. Icelandic. In Johan van der Auwera & Ekkehard König (eds.), The Germanic languages, 142–189. London: Routledge. [Page 169]
Thráinsson, Höskuldur. 2007. The syntax of Icelandic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511619441 [Pages 479–480]
Polite expression gera svo vel og/að 'do so well and/to; please'
Cleasby, Richard & Guðbrandur Vigfússon. 1874. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Page 224]
Einarsson, Stefán. 1949. Icelandic: Grammar, texts, glossary. 2nd edn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. [Page 348]
Ellertsson, Björn. 1993. Íslensk-Þýsk orðabók, Isländisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Reykjavik: IÐUNN. [Pages 123,484]
Jónsdóttir, Hildur. 2004. Teach yourself Icelandic. London: Hodder Headline. [Page 138]
Kress, Bruno. 1982. Isländische Grammatik. Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie. [Pages 242–243,247]
Neijmann, Daisy L. 2001. Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners. London: Routledge. [Page 228]
Rask, Rasmus Christian. 1818. Anvisning till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket. Stockholm: A. Wiborgs förlag. [Page 238]
War Department. 1941. Icelandic Phrase Book (Technical Manual 30–256). Washington, D.C. [Pages 4,21,23]
Zoëga, G. T. 1896. Ensk-íslenzk Orðabók, English-Icelandic Dictionary. Reykjavik: Sigurður Kristjánsson. [Page 302]