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Þórhallur Eyþórsson - Professor

Þórhallur Eyþórsson

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Hugvísindasvið

Þórhallur Eyþórsson

Professor

Linguistics, English

Location
Veröld - Hús Vigdísar / VHV-304
Phone
525 - 4456 8960406
Email
tolli [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Languages and Cultures
Website
http://hi.academia.edu/ÞórhallurEyþórsson

Consultation hours
By appointment
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1160-7524
Research portal – Þórhallur Eyþórsson

Published works

2022

One language? Early Anglo-Icelandic relations as reflected in the First Grammatical Treatise
The Emergence of Oblique Subjects: Oblique-Case Substitution and Shift in Anticausative Strategy in Modern IcelandicWorking Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
Um orðið aldrnari í Völuspá
Accent placement and word formation in Tocharian B: Resolving an apparent paradox

2021

Introduction
Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change
Sögnin þaga
Alexander Jóhannesson og uppruni mannlegs máls

2020

How to identify cognates in syntax: How to take Watkins’ legacy one step further
In defense of a language errorOslo Studies in Language
Býsn og fádæmi í tungumálinuMilli mála
Varieties of dependent Verb Second and verbal mood: A view from Icelandic
How to Identify Cognates in Syntax? Taking Watkins' Legacy One Step Further

2019

Chapter 4. Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structure
Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonalsSemantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality.
The alternating predicate puzzle dat-nom vs. Nom-dat in Icelandic and GermanConstructions and Frames
Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonalsSemantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality.
Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonalsSemantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality.

2018

What is a subject: The nature and validity of subject tests
Aldrnari
The prepositional absolute construction in IcelandicScandinavian Philology

2017

Position as a behavioral property of subjectsIndogermanische Forschungen
Variation in oblique subject constructions in Insular Scandinavian
Dative sicknessLanguage
Frumlagsfall er fararheill: Um breytingar á frumlagsfalli í íslensku og færeysku

2016

Explicit realization of weak arguments
Dative subjects in GermanicSTUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
The dating of Eddic poetry
The dating of Eddic poetry
Veik fornöfn í afturbeygðri þolmyndÍslenskt mál
The dating of Eddic poetry
Þegar veðrið kólnar og vindinn hvessir – þá snjóar hannÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Veik fornöfn í afturbeygðri þolmyndÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
A brief history of Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structureWorking Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
Veik fornöfn í afturbeygðri þolmyndÍslenskt mál
Syntactic reconstruction in Indo-European: State of the artVeleia

2015

Um þolmynd, germynd og það
Fallmörkun
Fallmörkun
Fallmörkun
Semantic and (morpho)syntactic constraints on anticausativizationLinguistics
Mál og kynóvissa í íslenskuRitið
The Insular Nordic experimental kitchen: Changes in case marking in Icelandic and Faroese

2014

Alternating predicates in Icelandic and GermanWorking Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
Oblike subjekter i færøysk og islandsk
Greinir skáldskapar: A diachronic corpus of Icelandic poetic texts

2013

Preface
The story of 'woe'Journal of Indo-European Studies
On Tune’s sijostez once again: A reply to Bernard MeesFuthark: International Journal of Runic Studies
Efnissöfnun og aðferðafræði
Syntactic Change
Málmyndun, málkunnátta og algildismálfræði

2012

Dative Case in Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian: Preservation and non-preservationNordic Journal of Linguistics
Varðveisla falla í þolmynd í íslensku og færeysku, með nokkrum samanburði við norsku og ensku
Reconstructing syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method
„með rauðum dropum“ Fáein orð um hugræn fræðiRitið
Variation in the syntax of the older runic inscriptionsFuthark: International Journal of Runic Studies
'Hungering and lusting for women and fleshly delicacies'Transactions of the Philological Society
Bara hrægammar: Myndhvörf hjá Lakoff og PinkerMilli mála

2011

Andmæli vegna doktorsritgerðar Ragnars Inga Aðalsteinssonar við HÍ: Tólf alda tryggð. Athugun á þróun stuðlasetningar frá elsta þekktum norrænum kveðskap fram til nútímansÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Hvenær og hvers vegna urðu Íslendingar þágufallssjúkir?
Passive of reflexive verbs in IcelandicNordlyd.
Structured exceptions and case selection in Insular Scandinavian
Hvenær og hvers vegna urðu Íslendingar þágufallssjúkir?
Hvenær og hvers vegna urðu Íslendingar þágufallssjúkir?

2010

Accusative/dative variation in experiencer subjects
Die Konstruktionsgrammatik und die komparative Methode
Accusative/dative variation in experiencer subjects
Structural, lexical and sociolinguistic aspects of language change: Variation in oblique subject constructions in Icelandic and beyond
Structural, lexical and sociolinguistic aspects of language change: Variation in oblique subject constructions in Icelandic and beyond
Accusative/dative variation in experiencer subjects
Structural, lexical and sociolinguistic aspects of language change: Variation in oblique subject constructions in Icelandic and beyond

2009

The syntax of the verb in Old Icelandic: Evidence from poetry
Stöðugleiki og breytingar í færeysku og íslensku: Beygingar og setningagerð
Variation in Icelandic morphosyntax
The Origin of the oblique-subject construction: an Indo-European comparison

2008

Ritið
The new passive in Icelandic really is a passive
Afleiðingar hrunsins í BabelRitið
Ritið
Ritið
Afleiðingar hrunsins í BabelRitið
Afleiðingar hrunsins í BabelRitið

2006

Control infinitives and case in Germanic: ‘Performance error’ or marginally acceptable constructions?Studies in Language
Norse and Icelandic

2005

The Icelandic (Pilot) Project in ScanDiaSyn
The Icelandic (Pilot) Project in ScanDiaSyn
Variation and change in subject case marking in Insular ScandinavianNordic Journal of Linguistics
Oblique subjectsLanguage
The Icelandic (Pilot) Project in ScanDiaSyn
Looking at the overlooked

2004

Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativityLingua
Breytingar á frumlagsfalli í íslenskuÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði

2003

The change that never happenedJournal of Linguistics
Icelandic vs. German: Oblique subjects, agreement and expletives

2002

Negation in CNordic Journal of Linguistics
Changes in subject case-marking in Icelandic

2001

Dative vs. Nominative: Changes in quirky subjects in Icelandic
Fall á fallanda fæti? Um breytingar á frumlagsfalli í íslenskuÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance and the evolution of perfective auxiliaries

1999

Uppruni sagnfærslu í germönskum málumÍslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
The inscription on the Reistad stone: The earliest Landnámabók

1998

Zur historisch-vergleichenden Syntax des Verbums im Germanischen

1997

‘Að upprennandi sólu.’ Stílfræði eða setningafræði?
Accent in Tocharian B causativesTocharian and Indo-European Studies

1996

Functional categories, cliticization, and word order in the early Germanic languages

1993

Proto-Indo-European origins of Tocharian accent: Class V subjunctives in Tocharian BTocharian and Indo-European Studies

Keywords for Specialisation:

Historical linguistics

diachronic syntax

syntactic variation