Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in Icelandic are notorious for instantiating two
diametrically opposed argument structures: the Dat-Nom and the Nom-Dat construction. We …

Recent research has highlighted the existence of expletive (-like) elements in various
languages that are related to discourse, serving as fillers for designated topic/focus positions …

In a recent article, Sigurðsson & Viðarsson (2020) put forward the hypothesis that the
Modern Icelandic Dat-Nom verb líka 'like'may have been an alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat …

The status of Old Icelandic with respect to (argument) configurationality was hotly debated in
the early 1990s (eg Faarlund 1990; Rögnvaldsson 1995) and remains unresolved. Since …

The proprial article (hann Jón 'he John') is attested across North Germanic and has attracted
recent interest for Icelandic in particular (Sigurðsson 2006; Wood 2009; Sigurðsson & Wood …

This chapter looks at the opportunities and perspectives that LFG offers for the study of
language change, surveying existing LFG approaches within historical linguistics and …

In this paper, we demonstrate research on syntactic lifespan change in the speech of an
Icelandic MP, using data from the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus. Our study exemplifies how …

The version of the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC) that was released in 2011
and later made available through CLARIN has facilitated a wide range of studies, both in …