Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 6. Word order as a subject test in Old Icelandic Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 135–154 | Chapter
The main claim of this article is that word order can be used to diagnose subjecthood in Old Icelandic if the relative order of subjects and objects in clauses where both arguments follow the finite verb is examined. The subject always precedes the object in such cases unless (i) the object is… read more
2017 Avoiding Genitive in Icelandic Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 141–164 | Chapter
The genitive is a highly idiosyncratic case for arguments in Icelandic. Hence it is sometimes substituted for by other cases, i.e. by structural case of subjects (nominative) and direct objects (accusative) or by the productive lexical dative case in other instances. Genitive objects of adjectives… read more
2015 Variation in wh-questions in Icelandic Sign Language Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. 145–156 | Article
This paper discusses age-related variation in wh-questions in Icelandic Sign Language (ÍTM) with respect to Verb Second (V2) in wh-questions, a word order borrowed from spoken Icelandic. Our data show that V2 in wh-questions is largely restricted to the speech of young speakers of ÍTM. We… read more
2009 Verb classes and dative objects in Insular Scandinavian The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 203–224 | Article
It is well-known cross-linguistically that some classes of transitive verbs are more likely than others to have dative objects. Thus, verbs whose object participant is active independent of the actions of the subject participant have a strong tendency to take dative objects. In this article, I show… read more
2009 The new impersonal as a true passive Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 281–306 | Article
This paper discusses a new impersonal construction in Icelandic. This construction has passive morphology but differs from canonical passives of transitive verbs in that the DP complement of the passive participle stays in situ and displays object properties. Contra Maling & Sigurjónsdóttir (2002),… read more