LEXICONORDICA 8 - Nordisk Sprogkoordination

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FIGURE 4. Beginning of vera (ÍO 2000)
By clicking on the items in the list on the right of the screen, the user
gets to the appropriate part. Two such subentries with added English
transcriptions from the list in figure 4 are found in figure 5, vera +
saman and vera + til me›:
FIGURE 5. vera + saman and vera + til me›
An explanation of the use of the ‘+’ is in order here. The term ‘verbal
phrase’ is very loosely interpreted because the average user is not going
to distinguish between particle verbs, verbs that take obligatory prepositional
phrases, etc. 3 The word-order in the structure can also be varied,
and the ‘+’ is only used as a heading to indicate subordinate constructions
where both verb and particle (or preposition, adverbial, etc.)
3 In Icelandic, all these can be combined under the term smáor› (literally 'little
word').