Thórhallur Eythórsson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thórhallur Eythórsson plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2210-2116 | E-ISSN 2210-2124
Title
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers
Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax
Articles
2019. The alternating predicate puzzle. Constructions and Frames 11:1, pp. 107–170
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 | Article
2019. Chapter 4. Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structure. The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn (eds.), pp. 69–100
Contrary to previous claims, weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates. Both in Old and Modern Icelandic they can appear with an NP either in nominative, accusative or dative case. It can be shown that in Modern Icelandic the NPs are subjects, and this is likely to have been the… read more | Chapter
2018. Chapter 11. What is a subject: The nature and validity of subject tests. Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 257–274
Chapter
2017. Variation in oblique subject constructions in Insular Scandinavian. Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 53–90
This chapter reviews the division of morphological case into structural case and lexical case and the latter in turn into regular (thematic) and idiosyncratic case (Yip, Maling and Jackendoff 1987). The Case Directionality Hypothesis (Eythórsson 2002, 2015b) states that historical development of… read more | Chapter
2009. The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison. Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 179–193
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2008. Introduction. Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 1–9
Miscellaneous
2008. The new passive in Icelandic really is a passive. Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 173–219
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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
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2001. Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance. Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 63–74
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