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pronominals and it is quite rich. Therefore, taking sig as Nominative would contradict the<br />

general pattern, namely that DPs have no neutral Case-forms. As for German, which also has<br />

Case morphology across the board, we have to assume that this language does have neutral Case-<br />

forms (at least for sich selbst). In fact, German Case-morphology is much poorer than in<br />

Icelandic. So, unlike in Icelandic, the German sich selbst element does not distinguish between<br />

Nominative and Accusative:<br />

(76) German:<br />

a. Hans ist sich selbst nicht mehr<br />

H. is SE SELFNom not more<br />

b. Hans sag sich selbst<br />

H. saw SE SELFAcc<br />

Icelandic:<br />

c. Jón er ekki lengur hann sjálfur<br />

J. is not longer he SELFNom<br />

d. Jón meiddi sig sjálfan<br />

J. hurt SE SELFAcc<br />

Therefore, the problematic case in Icelandic could be assumed to be due to morphology:<br />

no Nominative or neutral form being available for sig, the Nominative form hann has to be used<br />

as a suppletion for sig.<br />

Even if there are some problematic cases, I think that the contrast shown in 0/0 is<br />

significant enough not to disregard the issue.<br />

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