Over the last 20 years, the development of a wide range of treebanks that track the evolution
of languages' syntactic patterns through time has revolutionized the field of historical syntax …

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 …

The Icelandic case system presents an interesting linguistic puzzle. Languages tend to use
either word order, case and/or agreement to signal grammatical relations (Kiparsky 1987 …

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 …

This thesis examines the historical development of the expletive þad in Icelandic, from the
earliest texts to the present day. This development is set against the backdrop of Icelandic …

Abstract Language change is often assessed against a set of pre-determined time periods in
order to be able to trace its diachronic trajectory. This is problematic, since a pre-determined …

The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative
literature (eg Sigurðsson 1990, Franco 2008), and such structures are known to be more …

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 present a case study in which Visual Analytic methods for interactive data
exploration are applied to the study of historical linguistics. We discuss why diachronic …

This paper presents a diachronic account for the emergence of the expletive það in Icelandic
impersonal constructions. Using data from the IcePaHC corpus (Wallenberg et al. 2011), I …