University of Iceland

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Iceland*

Titles

The art and architecture of academic writing

Patricia Prinz & Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir

Subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Writing and literacy

2021. | text book

Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers

Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson

Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp. | edited volume

Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework

Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson & C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp. | course book

Masciolini, Arianna, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Joni Kruijsbergen, Murathan Kurfalı, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina, Robert Östling, Kais Allkivi, Špela Arhar Holdt, Ilze Auzina, Roberts Darģis, Elena Drakonaki, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Isidora Glišić, Pinelopi Kikilintza, Lionel Nicolas, Mariana Romanyshyn, Alexandr Rosen, Alla Rozovskaya, Kristjan Suluste, Oleksiy Syvokon, Alexandros Tantos, Despoina-Ourania Touriki, Konstantinos Tsiotskas, Eleni Tsourilla, Vassilis Varsamopoulos, Katrin Wisniewski, Aleš Žagar & Torsten Zesch 2025 Towards better language representation in Natural Language Processing: A multilingual dataset for text-level Grammatical Error Correction

Keywords: learner corpora | grammatical error correction | multilingual corpora | Matthew effect | MultiGEC shared task

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 11:2 pp. 309–335 | review article | open access

Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Sæunn & Thórhallur Eythórsson 2025 The emergence of oblique subjects: Identifiable processes in the history of Icelandic

Keywords: oblique subject | Oblique-Case Substitution | anticausative | Case-Preserving Anticausativization | Argument Swapping | Icelandic

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 215–231

Wikström, Toby Erik 2024 Before sentimental empire: Slavery, genre and emotion on the seventeenth-century French stage

Keywords: theater | genre studies | early-modern | seventeenth-century | Mediterranean

In: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] pp. 158–172

Angantýsson, Ásgrímur & Łukasz Jędrzejowski 2023 Layers of subordinate clauses: A view from causal af-því-að-clauses in Icelandic

Keywords: causal clause | adverbial clause | syntax | assertion | Icelandic

In: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 231] pp. 184–220

Callegari, Elena 2023 Linguistic strategies to present complexity in a time of crisis: How European leaders discussed the Covid-19 pandemic

Keywords: complexity | communicative strategies | Covid-19 | Erna Solberg | Giuseppe Conte | Emmanuel Macron | Boris Johnson | European Politics

In: Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine & Daniel Weiss (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 102] p. 75

Markússon, Jón Símon 2022  Tvær blækur labba inn á bar : On limited productivity as graded membership of an Icelandic microclass

NOWELE 75:2 pp. 194–222 | article

Callegari, Elena 2021 The relative order of foci and polarity complementizers: A Slavic perspective

Keywords: left periphery | fronted foci | polarity questions | complementizers | slavic | word order

Linguistic Variation 22:1 p. 78 | article

Garðarsdóttir, María & Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir 2020 A processability approach to the development of case in L2 Icelandic

Keywords: Processability Theory | L2 case acquisition | Icelandic case system | positional case marking | functional case marking | théorie de la processabilité | acquisition des cas en L2 | système islandais des cas | marquage positionnel des cas | marquage fonctionnel des cas

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:1 pp. 68–98 | article

Jóhannsson, Jón Yngvi 2020 At home in the wilderness: Gunnar Gunnarsson’s Advent

In: Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History, Hermansson, Gunilla & Jens Lohfert Jørgensen (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 15] pp. 81–96

Egilsson, Sveinn Yngvi 2020 The sublime North: Iceland as an artistic discourse originating in the nineteenth century

In: Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History, Hermansson, Gunilla & Jens Lohfert Jørgensen (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 15] pp. 191–204

Tarsi, Matteo 2019 Lat. scrībere in Germanic

NOWELE 72:1 pp. 42–59 | article

Ragnarsdóttir, Hanna 2020 Perspectives on bi- and multilingual children’s participation in kindergartens in Iceland

Keywords: inclusion | social justice | kindergartens | Iceland

AILA Review 32:1 pp. 138–159 | article | open access

Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Tonya Kim Dewey 2019 The alternating predicate puzzle: dat-nom vs. nom-dat in Icelandic and German

Keywords: argument structure | alternating predicates | case marking | oblique subjects | dat-nom predicates | Icelandic | German | construction grammar

Constructions and Frames 11:1 pp. 107–170 | article

Kristmannsson, Gauti 2019 Germanic tradition

Keywords: mother tongue | translation without an original | romance | imitations | Bible translations

In: A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves & Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 145] pp. 355–374

Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Sæunn & Thórhallur Eythórsson 2019 Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structure

In: The determinants of diachronic stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert & Melissa Farasyn (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] p. 69

Snædal, Magnús 2018 The phonology and morphology of foreign words in Gothic revisited: Some observations and remarks

NOWELE 71:2 pp. 184–222 | article

Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson 2018 What is a subject: The nature and validity of subject tests

In: Non-canonically case-marked subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na’ama Pat-El & Stephen Mark Carey (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] pp. 257–274

Jónsson, Jóhannes G. 2018 Word order as a subject test in Old Icelandic

In: Non-canonically case-marked subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na’ama Pat-El & Stephen Mark Carey (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] pp. 135–154

Verri, Giovanni & Matteo Tarsi 2018 Two Short Essays by Árni Magnússon on the Origins of the Icelandic Language

Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2 pp. 71–98 | article

Angantýsson, Ásgrímur 2015 On the morpho-syntax of verb/adverb placement and fronting in embedded clauses in Modern Övdalian

In: Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language, Bentzen, Kristine, Henrik Rosenkvist & Janne Bondi Johannessen (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 221] pp. 47–85 | open access

Maling, Joan & Sigriđur Sigurjónsdóttir 2012 Syntactic change in progress: The Icelandic “New Construction” as an active impersonal

In: Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] pp. 249–278

Kristinsson, Ari Páll & Amanda Hilmarsson-Dunn 2012 Unequal language rights in the Nordic language community

Keywords: Icelandic | linguistic practice | Nordic language community | English as a lingua franca | Scandinavian languages | language policy | language rights | language ideology

Language Problems and Language Planning 36:3 pp. 222–236 | article

Snædal, Magnus 2010  Uns/unsis and Colloquial Gothic

NOWELE 58-59:1 pp. 301–322 | article

Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli 2009 The new impersonal as a true passive

In: Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger & Florian Schäfer (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] pp. 281–306

Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli 2009 Verb classes and dative objects in Insular Scandinavian

In: The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna & Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] pp. 203–224

Harðarson, Jón Axel 2007 Proto-Nordic *bidawarijaz

NOWELE 52:1 p. 95 | article

Árnason, Kristján 2006 Icelandic

In: Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] pp. 245–279

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.