The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of subject case in Icelandic, extending
and refining the observations of Jónsson (1997-1998) and some earlier work on this topic. It …

The basic goal of this work is to explore three interrelated issues in Icelandic syntax: the
identification of structural case positions, the mechanisms for case checking and the role of case …

The Insular Scandinavian (IS) languages, Icelandic and Faroese, exhibit variation in subject
case marking, primarily pertaining to an older idiosyncratic case and an innovative case that …

… Icelandic has a much bigger class of verbs taking non-nominative subjects than Faroese (see
Jónsson 2003 for an overview) but we will focus here on verbs with experiencer subjects. …

This paper discusses a new impersonal construction in Icelandic. This construction has
passive morphology but differs from canonical passives of transitive verbs in that the DP …

This paper discusses the rich array of clausal exclamatives in Icelandic. It is shown here that
Icelandic has three kinds of simple exclamatives (Wh‐exclamatives, XP‐exclamatives and M…

It is well-known cross-linguistically that some classes of transitive verbs are more likely than
others to have dative objects. Thus, verbs whose object participant is active independent of …

Building on data from Icelandic, this article argues that there are two kinds of case variation,
formal and semantic. The first type features lexical case as one of the variants whereas the …

The diachronic development of case selection in Insular Scandinavian (Icelandic and Faroese)
provides strong support for a dichotomy of structured exceptions, which display partial …

This paper argues that case assignment to indirect objects in Icelandic is determined by
theta-roles in that recipient and benefactive indirect objects are always assigned dative case. …