Tveggja andlaga sagnir í íslensku og færeysku - verkefni lokið
Fréttatilkynning verkefnisstjóra
The main goal of the project was to investigate various syntactic issues that ditransitive verbs in Icelandic and Faroese give rise to, using naturalistic examples from corpora as well as carefully designed judgment tasks.
The syntactic issues include Object Inversion (theme-goal orders in active clauses), Object Shift (the possibility of moving objects to the left of clause-medial adverbs), the DPDP frame vs. the DP-PP frame, deviations from standard case patterns and the relative scope of two objects. The results significantly extend our current knowledge of the syntax and semantics of ditransitive verbs in the two languages. They also contradict claims from previous studies to some extent. Thus, the results of the project are bound to have a big impact on future studies of ditransitives constructions for many years to come, especially within the Germanic languages.
∙ Information on how the results will be applied
The results have already been presented in various publications and it is likely that the forthcoming publications will appear later this year or next year. We expect that some of the unused research materials that we have gathered will be put to use in further studies by participants in this project or future BA- or MA-students.
∙ A list of the project’s outputs
The outputs of this project consist of the scholarly work that has been published or awaits publication. To this list one could also add various conference presentations between 2019-2022.
∙ Publications
The BA-theses are included here because they are just as important as the MA-theses. Two theses
from 2023 are included here because they were more or less finished in 2022. All the theses are in
open access (in skemman.is) and most of the other publications as well.
Benediktsdóttir, Ásbjörg. 2023. Þolmynd á fallanda fæti. Fallglötun í þolmynd. MA-thesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisor: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson)
Friðriksdóttir, Sara Sesselja. 2022. Einhver kúreki snaraði hvern kálf. Um tvíræð merkingarsvið
magnliða í íslensku. BA-thesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisor: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson)
Garofalo, Mirko. 2020. The case of clausal arguments in Icelandic. Working Papers in Scandinavian
Syntax 104:1-28. [https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/sol/ovrigt/projekt_grimm/working_papers/2020-
December/mirko-garofalo-final-article.pdf]
Garofalo, Mirko. (to appear). The interplay of D, phi and case features in clausal nominalization: an
account from Icelandic. Proceedings of Frændafundur 11, (eds.): Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson & Tóta
Árnadóttir. The Institute of Humanities, University of Iceland.
Harðarson, Gísli Rúnar. (to appear). Notes on Object inversion in Icelandic, Proceedings of
Frændafundur 11, (eds.): Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson & Tóta Árnadóttir. The Institute of Humanities,
University of Iceland.
Harðarson, Gísli Rúnar, Cherlon Ussery & Annika Simonsen. (to appear). I’ll give you that interpretation If you give me the right configuration: Accounting for the gradience of inverse scope in Insular Scandinavian. Proceedings of the 53rd North East Linguistic Society Meeting, (eds): Suet-Ying Lam and Satoru Ozaki. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli & Rannveig Þórarinsdóttir. 2020. Dative objects with novel verbs in Icelandic. Dative constructions in Romance and beyond, (eds.): Anna Pineda & Jaume Mateu, bls. 297-315. Berlin: Language Science Press.
[file:///C:/Users/jj/Downloads/258-Book%20Manuscript-1888-1-10-20200529-1.pdf]
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli. 2020. Object Inversion in Icelandic and the Risamálheild Corpus. Hagen,
Hjelde, Stjernholm & Vangsnes (eds.) Bauta: Janne Bondi Johannessen in memoriam, Oslo Studies
in Language 11(2):1–11. [https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8498]
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli. 2022. Icelandic ditransitives and the object inversion construction. For Hagit: A celebration, (eds.): Linnaea Stockall, Luisa Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy & Sarah Ouwayda. QMUL Occasional Papers in Linguistics 47:1-12.
[https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/media/sllf-new/department-of-linguistics/hagit-borercelebration/Jonsson.pdf]
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli & Iðunn Kristínardóttir. 2022. Prepositional vs. indirect objects in Icelandic.
Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 107:32-46.
[https://projekt.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/sol/ovrigt/projekt_grimm/working_papers/2022-
dec/Kristinardottir-Jonsson.pdf]
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli & Iðunn Kristínardóttir. (to appear). PPs for indirect objects in Icelandic.
Proceedings of Frændafundur 11, (eds.): Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson & Tóta Árnadóttir. The Institute of
Humanities, University of Iceland.
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli. (submitted). Object Shift in Icelandic and Faroese. Handbook on the syntax of the Germanic languages, (eds.): Johannes Mursel, Katharina Hartmann & Susanne Wurmbrand. De Gruyter, Berlin.
Kristínardóttir, Iðunn. 2021. ...að banna tóbak til reyklausra. Um til-forsetningarlið í stað óbeins andlags í íslensku. BA-thesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisor: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson)
Magnússon, Bolli. 2019. Bolli. Ég gaf ambáttina konunginum. Umröðun tveggja andlaga í íslensku. BAthesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisors: Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson)
Sigurðardóttir, Salome Lilja. 2023. Rökliðagerðir nýrra sagna í íslensku. Rannsókn á notkun erlendra tökusagna á netinu. MA-thesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisors: Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and Gísli Rúnar Harðarson)
Snorrason, Oddur. 2021. Samfall og misræmi í þolmynd: Áhrif samfalls á fall- og samræmiskröfur í
íslenskri þolmynd. MA-thesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisors: Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson)
Tómasdóttir, Ása Bergný. 2021. Hann leyndi henni sannleikanum: Tilbrigði í fallmörkun tveggja andlaga sagna. BA-thesis, University of Iceland. (Supervisor: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson)
Ussery, Cherlon & Hjalmar P. Petersen. (in press). Ditransitives in Faroese: The distribution of IO/DO and PP. Timothy Colleman, Melanie Röthlisberger and Eve Zehentner (eds.): Ditransitive
constructions in the Germanic languages. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Ussery, Cherlon, Gísli Rúnar Harðarson & Annika Simonsen. (to appear). Scope and Ditransitives in
Insular Scandinavian Proceedings of Frændafundur 11, (eds.): Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson & Tóta
Árnadóttir. The Institute of Humanities, University of Iceland.
Ussery, Cherlon, Gísli Rúnar Harðarson & Annika Simonsen. (submitted). The distribution and
interpretation of ditransitives in Icelandic and Faroese: An argument for a verb sensitive approach.
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
Wood, Jim. 2023. Icelandic nominalizations and allosemy. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Wood, Jim & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson. 2022. Low and higher applicatives: The case of Icelandic adjectivaldatives. Nora Boneh, Daniel Harbour, Ora Matushansky and Isabelle Roy (eds.): Building on Babel’s rubble, 437–450. [Festschrift for Léa Nash.] Presses universitaires de Vincennes.
[https://doi.org/10.3917/puv.boneh.2022.01.]
Heiti verkefnis: Tveggja
andlaga sagnir í íslensku og færeysku / Ditransitives in Insular Scandinavian
Verkefnisstjóri: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Háskóla Íslands og Cherlon Ussery, Carleton College
Tegund styrks: Verkefnisstyrkur
Styrktímabil: 2019-2021
Fjárhæð styrks kr. 54.140.000
Tilvísunarnúmer Rannís: 195926
