Ásgrímur Angantýsson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ásgrímur Angantýsson is involved.
Articles
2023 Chapter 7. Layers of subordinate clauses: A view from causal af-því-að -clauses in Icelandic Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), pp. 184–220 | Chapter
The main aim of this chapter is to examine adverbial causal af-því-að-clauses in modern Icelandic. Semantically, we argue that af-því-að-clauses can be interpreted as eventuality-related, as evidential or as speech-act-related causal clauses. Syntactically, we show that af-því-að-clauses can be… read more
2017 Stylistic fronting and related constructions in the Insular Scandinavian Languages Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 277–306 | Chapter
This chapter reports on the similarities and differences between Stylistic Fronting (SF) and related constructions in Icelandic and Faroese. Contrary to the claim that “any category can become an expletive” (Holmberg 2000), it is argued that stylistically fronted elements and overt expletives are… read more
2015 On the morpho-syntax of verb/adverb placement and fronting in embedded clauses in Modern Övdalian Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language, Bentzen, Kristine, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen † (eds.), pp. 47–85 | Article
The constructions under investigation in this chapter include verb second (V2) and topicalization in various types of embedded clauses, stylistic fronting (SF) and transitive expletive constructions (TECs). It turns out that the older speakers of Övdalian allow V2 more freely than the younger… read more