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Linglib.Fragments.Icelandic.Predicates

Icelandic Verbs (Predicates fragment) #

@cite{wood-2015}

Consensus lexical data for Icelandic verbs participating in the -st / -na alternations made famous by @cite{wood-2015}. Each entry carries only the surface forms and a Boolean for whether an active variant exists — every other piece of information about each verb (the -st classification, the anticausative-marking morpheme, the @cite{cuervo-2003}-style root decomposition, the possessive-dative diagnostic) is paper-specific apparatus and lives in Phenomena.ArgumentStructure.Studies.Wood2015, where it can participate in further analysis without polluting the Fragment schema.

This is the same discipline applied to other Fragment lexicons in linglib: textbook-consensus lexical data on this side; competing analyses on the Studies side.

Note on classification: the morphological reflex -st (historically sik-sk-st) realizes Voice across at least six descriptive categories that @cite{wood-2015} identifies — anticausative, middle, reflexive, inherent, subject-experiencer, reciprocal — plus -na-marked anticausatives like brotna. The -st / -na contrast and the parameters that distinguish these categories are formalized in the Wood2015 study file, not here.

A lexical entry for an Icelandic verb participating in the -st / -na alternation. Carries only consensus surface data.

  • activeForm : Option String

    Active / bare form, if one exists. none for inherent -st verbs (nálgast, minnast) and the subject-experiencer leiðast.

  • stForm : String

    The intransitive form: typically suffixed with -st, with -na on brotna and friends, or identical to the active when the alternation is unmarked.

  • gloss : String

    English gloss for human readers.

  • hasActiveVariant : Bool

    Whether an active variant exists (must agree with activeForm.isSome; the redundancy is a sanity check used by the consistency theorem below).

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          opna / opnast 'open'.

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            splundra / splundrast 'shatter'.

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              brjóta / brotna 'break' — the canonical -na-marked anticausative (cf. opnast / splundrast with -st).

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                selja / seljast 'sell'.

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                  lesa / lesast 'read'.

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                    baða / baðast 'bathe'.

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                      klæða / klæðast 'dress'.

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                        nálgast 'approach' — no active variant; -st is lexicalized.

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                          minnast 'remember' — no active variant.

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                            leiðast 'be bored' — subject-experiencer; no active variant. Mér leiðist í skólanum 'I am bored in school'.

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                              kyssa / kyssast 'kiss' — used in reciprocal contexts: Þau kyssast 'They kissed (each other)'.

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                                All -st-marked verb entries (excludes -na-marked verbs like brotna). The Wood2015 study file projects analytical data (stType, marking, root structure) over the same ten verbs in the same order.

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                                  theorem Fragments.Icelandic.Predicates.alternating_have_active :
                                  ((List.filter (fun (x : IcelandicStVerb) => x.hasActiveVariant) allStVerbs).all fun (v : IcelandicStVerb) => v.activeForm.isSome) = true

                                  Sanity check: every verb whose hasActiveVariant is true also has activeForm.isSome. Catches schema drift in either field.