Alexander Pfaff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Pfaff plays a role.
Articles
2024 Dimensions of partitivity in Icelandic (and beyond) Methods for Studying Variation in Partitives, Sleeman, Petra and Anne Tamm (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Article
This article addresses a peculiar partitive construction in Icelandic – peculiar, in that it involves (case, number, gender) agreement between a quantificational element and the inner nominal, rather than dependency marking (by case or preposition) on the inner nominal. It is shown that this… read more
2014 Inside and outside – Before and after: Weak and strong adjectives in Icelandic Adjectives in Germanic and Romance, Sleeman, Petra, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 217–244 | Article
Icelandic has four (definite) article – adjective – noun patterns. In this paper, I present novel data, and put “old” data in a new perspective. I will argue that weakly inflected adjectives (patterns I – III) are merged inside the DP below the definite article, whereas strongly inflected… read more