Sigriđur Sigurjónsdóttir

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sigriđur Sigurjónsdóttir plays a role.

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Maling, Joan and Sigriđur Sigurjónsdóttir 2012 Syntactic change in progress: The Icelandic “New Construction” as an active impersonal Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 249–278 | Article

A new impersonal construction is developing in Icelandic. The New Construction (NC) appears to have passive morphology but differs from canonical passives in that the verbal object remains in situ and gets assigned accusative case. Scholars differ in their assessment of whether the NC is a passive… read more