Jóhanna Barðdal

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jóhanna Barðdal plays a role.

Journals

Titles

Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] 2018. vi, 280 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers

Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] 2013. viii, 578 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] 2009. xx, 432 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

The term grammaticalization originally denoted a particular outcome of language change (lexis > morphology), then got expanded to practically all studies involving language change, the processes that create such changes, and a theory modeling these. These expansions have been challenged in the… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thórhallur Eythórsson and Tonya Kim Dewey-Findell 2019 The alternating predicate puzzle: dat-nom vs. nom-dat in Icelandic and GermanConstructions and Frames 11:1, pp. 107–170 | Article
A long-standing divide between Icelandic and German in the literature takes for granted that there are non-nominative subjects in Icelandic, while corresponding arguments in German have been analyzed as objects (Zaenen et al. 1985; Sigurðsson 1989). This is based on two differences between these… read more
Johnson, Cynthia A., Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair and Jóhanna Barðdal 2019 Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change: How to succeed in Indo-European without really tryingDiachronica 36:4, pp. 463–508 | Article
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna 2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papersNon-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
Barðdal, Jóhanna and Thórhallur Eythórsson 2018 Chapter 11. What is a subject: The nature and validity of subject testsNon-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 257–274 | Chapter
Danesi, Serena and Jóhanna Barðdal 2018 Chapter 8. Case marking of predicative possession in Vedic: The genitive, the dative, the locativeNon-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 181–212 | Chapter
Possession is an abstract domain of human conceptualization whose expression may be based on different cognitive structures. Heine (1997) identifies a small set of basic conceptual patterns that express predicative possession across the languages of the world. Vedic has three of these patterns… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna and Spike Gildea 2015 Diachronic Construction Grammar: Epistemological context, basic assumptions and historical implicationsDiachronic Construction Grammar, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Article
The main goal of this chapter is to discuss the value of the Construction Grammar framework to solving perceived problems with diachronic syntax. As such, one part of this chapter provides a condensed review of previous research in diachronic syntax, including a brief discussion of why many… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thomas Smitherman, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Serena Danesi, Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray 2014 Reconstructing constructional semantics: The dative subject construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Old LithuanianTheory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 49–85 | Article
As the historical linguistic community is well aware, reconstructing semantics is a notoriously difficult undertaking. Such reconstruction has so far mostly been carried out on lexical items, like words and morphemes, and has not been conducted for larger and more complex linguistic units, which… read more
Luraghi, Silvia, Jóhanna Barðdal and Eugenio R. Luján 2014 Editors’ cornerJournal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 159–160 | Article
Barðdal, Jóhanna and Michela Cennamo 2013 Argument structure in fluxArgument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thomas Smitherman, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Serena Danesi, Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray 2012 Reconstructing constructional semantics: The dative subject construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Old LithuanianTheory and data in cognitive linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 511–547 | Article
As the historical linguistic community is well aware, reconstructing semantics is a notoriously difficult undertaking. Such reconstruction has so far mostly been carried out on lexical items, like words and morphemes, and has not been conducted for larger and more complex linguistic units, which… read more
Croft, William A., Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem B. Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka 2010 Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructionsContrastive Studies in Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. (ed.), pp. 201–236 | Article
Barðdal, Jóhanna 2009 The development of case in GermanicThe Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 123–159 | Article
In this article five existing explanations for the loss of case morphology in the Germanic languages are examined. These are (1) phonological erosion, (2) a change from synthetic to analytic language type, (3) a change from free to fixed word order, (4) the development of the definite article, and… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah 2009 Introduction: The role of semantic, pragmatic and discourse factors in the development of caseThe Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. ix–xx | Article
Smitherman, Thomas and Jóhanna Barðdal 2009 Typological changes in the evolution of Indo-European syntax?Diachronica 26:2, pp. 253–273 | Article
Barðdal, Jóhanna 2007 The semantic and lexical range of the ditransitive construction in the history of (North) GermanicDitransitivity, Siewierska, Anna and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 9–30 | Article
Current analyses of the semantic structure of the ditransitive construction in English assume that the construction consists of approximately nine semantic subconstructions, namely those of actual, intended, retained and metaphorical transfer (and some corresponding subconstructions). An… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna and Thórhallur Eythórsson 2006 Control infinitives and case in Germanic: ‘Performance error’ or marginally acceptable constructions?Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 147–177 | Article
Barðdal, Jóhanna 2000 Oblique Subjects in Old ScandinavianNOWELE Volume 37 (September 2000), pp. 25–51 | Article