The Icelandic preposition hjá ‘at’: Its role in canonical intransitive sentences

This paper seeks to explain the roles that the preposition hjá plays in canonical intransitive sentences in Icelandic. According to Hopper and Thompson’s (1980) transitivity hypothesis, this type of intransitive sentence is characterised by the expression of an event that contains a participant aff...

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Main Author: Toshiko Yamaguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-06-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3327
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