Málfræðilegar formdeildir og hlutverksliðir með hliðsjón af miðlunarhætti - verkefnislok
The research project Grammatical categories and functional projections from a cross-modality perspective was funded by Rannsóknasjóður from 2010 to 2012. The main goal of the project was to investigate grammatical categories and functional projections across modalities through a comparison of two spoken languages, Icelandic and Faroese, and one sign language, Icelandic Sign Language (Íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM). A further objective was to develop new insights and discoveries about ÍTM, a language that had never before been subject to a large-scale investigation.
Heiti verkefnis: Málfræðilegar formdeildir og hlutverksliðir með hliðsjón af miðlunarhætti
Verkefnisstjóri: Jóhannes G. Jónsson, Háskóla Íslands
Tegund styrks: Verkefnisstyrkur
Styrkár: 2010-2012
Styrkfjárhæð: 16,275 millj. kr. alls
The project has lead to many important publications on Icelandic and Faroese syntax, covering diverse topics such as exclamatives, preposition stranding, reflexives, case marking, nominative objects, and resultative constructions. The project has also vastly expanded our knowledge of various grammatical phenomena in ÍTM such as basic word order, wh-questions, agreement verbs, word-formation, and pluralization. Moreover, a community of sign language researchers has taken shape in Iceland, determined to carry on advancing the scientific study of ÍTM by building on the results of the project.
The results of this project will inspire more research into many of the syntactic issues addressed in the project, especially as they relate to ÍTM. Moreover, our results will undoubtedly serve as a basis for much-needed teaching material for ÍTM at all levels of education as well as guidelines for sign language interpreters.
List of theses, papers, and manuscripts relating to the project
Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir, Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson,Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir, and Rannveig Sverrisdóttir. 2012. Málfræði íslenska táknmálsins. [The grammar of Icelandic Sign Language.] Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði 34:9-52.
Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir. 2012. Hvað gerðir þú við peningana sem frúin í Hamborg gaf þér? Myndun hv-spurninga í íslenska táknmálinu. [The formation of wh-questions in Icelandic Sign Language] MA-thesis, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir and Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir. 2012. Að bera saman epli og appelsínur. Aðaltengingar í íslenska táknmálinu. [Comparing apples and oranges. Conjunctions in Icelandic Sign Language.] Unpublished manuscript, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Gísli Rúnar Harðarson. 2010. Forsetningarstrand. [Preposition stranding.] MA-thesis, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Íris Edda Nowenstein Mathey. 2012. Mig langar sjálfri til þess. Rannsókn á innri breytileika í fallmörkun frumlaga. [An investigation of intra-speaker variation in subject case marking.] BA-thesis, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson.2010. Icelandic exclamatives and the structure of the CP layer. Studia Linguistica 64(1):37-54.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Þórhallur Eyþórsson 2011. Structured exceptions and case selection in Insular Scandinavian. Expecting the unexpected:Exceptions in the grammar, eds.: Horst Simon & Heike Wiese, p. 213-242. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. 2011. Reflexive sig is an argument. Nordlyd 37:99-118. Relating to reflexives, ed.: Tanya Strahan.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Kristín Þóra Pétursdóttir. 2012. Þágufallsandlög með lýsingar-orðum í íslensku og færeysku. [Dative objects with adjectives in Icelandic and Faroese.] Frændafundur 7, eds.: Magnús Snædal and Turíð Sigurðardóttir, p. 91-108. Reykjavík: Hugvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. 2013. Dative versus accusative and the nature of inherent case. Variation in datives. A microcomparative perspective, eds.: Beatriz Fernandez and Ricardo Etxepare, p. 144-160. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. 2013. Two types of case variation. Nordic Journal ofLinguistics 36(1):5-25.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. To appear. Samræmi. [Agreement.] [co-authors: Höskuldur Þráinsson and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson] Tilbrigði í íslenskri setningagerð II. Helstu niðurstöður – Tölfræðilegt yfirlit,eds.: Höskuldur Þráinsson, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, chapter 12. Reykjavík: Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. To appear. Samræmi við nefnifallsandlög. [Agreement with nominative objects.] Tilbrigði í íslenskri setningagerð III. Sérathuganir,eds.: Höskuldur Þráinsson, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, chapter 27. Reykjavík: Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir and Rannveig Sverrisdóttir. Submitted. Agreement verbs in Icelandic Sign Language. Conference proceedings for FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory) in Warsaw, June 1-2, ed.: Pawel Rutkowski.
Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir. 2011. Sagnir í íslenska táknmálinu. Formleg einkenni og málfræðilegar formdeildir. [Verbs in Icelandic Sign Language. Formal properties and grammatical categories.] MA-thesis, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Rannveig Sverrisdóttir. 2010. Islandsk tegnsprogs status. Fra kalveskinn til "tölva", ed.: Guðrún Kvaran, p. 89-97. Reykjavík: Mennta- og menningarmálaráðuneytið.
Rannveig Sverrisdóttir and Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir. To appear. Why is the SKY BLUE? On colour signs in Icelandic Sign Language. Semantic fields in sign languages, eds.: Ulrike Zeshan and Keiko Sagara. Mouton de Guyter and Nijmegen: Ishara Press, Berlin.
Whelpton, Matthew. 2010. Building resultatives in Icelandic. Interfaces in linguistics: New research perspectives, eds.: Raffaella Folli & Christiane Ulbrich, p. 96-115. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Whelpton, Matthew. 2012. Hugræn merkingarfræði og útkomusetningar [Cognitive semantics and resultatives; translation: Þórhallur Eyþórsson]. Ritið 12(3):145-162.
Whelpton, Matthew. 2012. Going is not becoming: Some comments on the resultative in English (and Icelandic). Milli mála 4:151-177.
Whelpton, Matthew. To appear. Útkoman er þessi. Resultatives and verb classes in Icelandic. Tilbrigði í íslenskri setningagerð III. Sérathuganir,eds.: Höskuldur Þráinsson, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, chapter 25. Reykjavík: Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Þórhallur Eyþórsson. 2011. Passive of reflexive verbs in Icelandic. [co-authors: Hlíf Árnadóttir and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson]. Nordlyd 37:39-97, Relating to reflexives, ed.: Tania Strahan.
Þórhallur Eyþórsson. 2012. Dative case in Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian: Preservation and non-preservation. [co-authors: Janne Bondi Johannessen, Signe Laake & Tor A. Åfarli] Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35(3):219-249.
Þórhallur Eyþórsson. 2012. Varðveisla falla í þolmynd í íslensku og færeysku, með nokkrum samanburði við norsku og ensku. [The preservation of case in Icelandic and Faroese with some comparison to Norwegian and English.] Frændafundur 7, eds.: Magnús Snædal and Turíð Sigurðardóttir, p. 109–126. Reykjavík: Hugvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Þórhallur Eyþórsson. To appear. Fallmörkun. [Case marking.] [co-authors: Höskuldur Þráinsson, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, and Þórunn Blöndal] Tilbrigði í íslenskri setningagerð II. Helstu niðurstöður – Tölfræðilegt yfirlit,eds.: Höskuldur Þráinsson, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, chapter 7. Reykjavík: Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Þórhallur Eyþórsson. To appear. Frumlagsfall er fararheill. Um breytingar á frumlagsfalli í íslensku og færeysku. [Changes in subject case marking in Icelandic and Faroese.] Tilbrigði í íslenskri setningagerð III. Sérathuganir eds.: Höskuldur Þráinsson, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, chapter 28. Reykjavík: Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Þórhallur Eyþórsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson. To appear. Oblike subjekter i færøysk og islandsk. [Oblique subjects in Faroese and Icelandic.] Nordisk dialektforskning – talespråket i Nordisk dialektkorpus, eds.: Janne Bondi Johannessen (Oslo) & al.
