Einar Freyr Sigur∂sson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Einar Freyr Sigur∂sson plays a role.

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Wood, Jim, Einar Freyr Sigur∂sson and Iris Edda Nowenstein 2017 Inverse attraction in Icelandic relative clauses Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 199–232 | Chapter
We introduce “inverse attraction” (IA) (Bianchi 1999: 93) in non-standard Icelandic, a nearly unstudied phenomenon that provides special insight into relative clause formation, specificially regarding the copy deletion that occurs in the “matching analysis” derivation of relatives. Descriptively,… read more