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Lykilorð
að blóta, blótsyrði, orðgerð, setningagerð, íslenska
Keywords
swearing, swearwords, morphological structure, syntactic structure, Icelandic
Abstract
Swearing in Icelandic is the topic of this article. The main focus is on the grammatical
aspects of swear words, i.e. their morphological and syntactic characteristics and
behaviour, emphasizing how one swears rather than why. The Tagged Icelandic
Corpus (MÍM), containing searchable texts from the early 21st century, is the primary
source for the analysis. Even if the vocabulary of swear words is relatively small
and swearing is a formulaic use of language, the results show that there can be
considerable flexibility in Icelandic swearing and that there are creative means to
modify and extend both the vocabulary and the syntactic constructions typical of
swearing. The vocabulary extensions are partly based on word­formation (in some
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