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Jóhanna Barðdal

Education and Academic Qualifications

•  B.A. Degree in Icelandic and German, University of Iceland (Feb.1992)
•  M.A. Studies in Icelandic Linguistics, University of Iceland (1992–1993)
•  Lecturer in Icelandic, Lund University (1993–2000)
•  Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester (2000–2001)
•  Ph.D. Degree in Scandinavian Linguistics, Lund University (Sept. 2001)
•  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (2001–2002)
•  Externally-Funded Researcher, Lund University (2002–2003)
•  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics, University of Bergen (July 2003–2008)
•  Docent "Degree" in Scandinavian Linguistics (comparable to Habilitation in  Europe or Associate Professor competence in USA), Lund University (March  2004)
• Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (July–Dec. 2005)
• Acting Associate Professor, University of Bergen (July–Dec. 2006)
• Research Associate Professor, University of Bergen (April 2008–March 2012)

Professional Assignments

• Forum for Cognitive Science

Projects

• Scandinavian – In Past and Present: Book project published by Studentlitteratur, with Bente Martinussen (Norway), Gorm Larsen (Denmark), and led by Nils Jörgensen (Sweden), (1995–1997)
• Focus Structure, Word Order and Thematic Structure: A joint Nordic project funded by the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities (NOS-H), with Jorunn Hetland (Norway), Lars Heltoft (Denmark), Marja Järventausta (Finland) and led by Valéria Molnár (Sweden), (1995–2000)
• Case in Icelandic: Doctoral Project funded by RANNÍS, Iceland, Lund University and STINT, Sweden (1997–2001)
• The Case of Subjects with Impersonal Verbs in Insular Scandinavian: Funded by the British Academy (AHRB), England, with Jóhannes G. Jónsson (Iceland), Hjalmar P. Petersen, (Faroe Islands), and led by Thórhallur Eythórsson (England), (2001)
• Syntactic Productivity: Funded with a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Bergen.
• Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective: Funded by the Bergen Research Foundation, with matched funding from the University of Bergen and its Faculty of Humanities (2008–2012)
• The Leipzig Valency Classes Project: Invited Member (2010–2012)
• The Emergence of Non-Canonical Case Marking in Indo-European: Funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2011–2015)
• Scientific Research Network: Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and Functional Approaches. Coordinated by Ghent University, funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) (2011–2015)

Recent Publications (complete list)

Forthcoming

• The Reconstruction of Oblique Subject Constructions in Proto-Indo-European: The Quest for Cognates (with Thomas Smitherman). Submitted to a thematic issue "Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development", ed. by Leonid Kulikov & Nikolaos Lavidas (2013) .

• Valency Classes in Icelandic: Oblique Subjects, Oblique Anticausatives and the Actional Passive. To appear in Valency Classes in the World's Languages, ed. by Bernard Comrie & Andrej Malchukov.

• "Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies": Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Under revision for a thematic issue in Transactions of the Philological Society, entitled "Variation and Change in Argument Realization" (2012).

• "Woe to the Rich and the Sordid Fellows": The Syntax, Semantics and Information Structure of 'Woe' in Indo-European (with Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Eystein Dahl, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Chiara Fedriani & Thomas Smitherman). Submitted to the Journal of Indo-European Studies.

• Reconstructing Constructional Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Lithuanian (with Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Gard B. Jenset, and Thomas Smitherman). Undir revision for a thematic issue in Studies in Language, entitled "Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics", ed. by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem Hollmann (2012).

• The Rise and Fall of Anticausative Constructions in Indo-European: The Context of Latin and Germanic (with Michela Cennamo and Thórhallur Eythórsson). Submitted to a thematic issue in Linguistics, entitled "Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony", ed. by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas (2014).

• Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction. To appear in Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Eds. Graeme Trousdale and Thomas Hoffmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). To appear in Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Eds. Hans C. Boas and Ivan A. Sag. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

• Entries on i) Nominal Case, ii) Exceptional Case Marking and iii) Conceptual Space. To appear in WSK Dictionary on Cognitive Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Predicting the Productivity of Argument Structure Constructions. To appear in Berkeley Linguistics Society 32.

2011

• A special guest-edited issue on Empirical Approaches to Morphological Case (with Cathryn Donohue). Morphology 21(3–4).

• Lexical vs. Structural Case: A False Dichotomy. Morphology 21(3–4): 619–659.

• The Rise of Dative Substitution in the History of Icelandic: A Diachronic Construction Grammar Approach. Lingua 121(1): 60–79.

• West Scandinavian Ditransitives as a Family of Constructions: With a Special Attention to the Norwegian V-REFL-NP Construction (with Kristian E. Kristoffersen & Andreas Sveen). Linguistics 49(1): 53–104

• Die Konstruktionsgrammatik und die komparative Methode (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). In Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog: Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, 148–156. Eds. Thomas Krisch & Thomas Lindner. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.

2010

• Revising Talmy's Typological Classification of Complex Event Constructions (with William Croft, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka). In Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar, 201–236. Ed. Hans C. Boas. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Genitives and Other Cases in Old Norse-Icelandic. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 28(2): 140–151.

2009

• Typological Changes in the Evolution of Indo-European Syntax? (with Thomas Smitherman). Diachronica 26(2): 253–273.

• The Origin of the Oblique Subject Construction: An Indo-European Comparison (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). In Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages, 179–193. Eds. Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case. Eds. Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana Chelliah. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

• The Development of Case in Germanic. In The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, 123–159. Eds. Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana Chelliah. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Case in Decline (with Leonid Kulikov). In The Oxford Handbook of Case. Eds. Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer, 470–478. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008

• Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Review of “Construction Grammars: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions” ed. by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried. Language 84(2): 822–825.

2007

• The Semantic and Lexical Range of the Ditransitive Construction in the History of (North) Germanic. Functions of Language 14–1:9–30.

• Review of "Íslensk tunga III: Setningar" by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Jóhannes G. Jónsson, Sigríður Magnúsdóttir, Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir and Thórunn Blöndal. Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði 29: 189–208.

2006

• Construction-Specific Properties of Syntactic Subjects in Icelandic and German. Cognitive Linguistics 17–1:39–106.

• Control Infinitives and Case in Germanic: 'Performance Error' or Marginally Acceptable Constructions (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). In Case, Valency and Transitivity [Studies in Language Companion Series 77]. Eds. L. Kulikov, A. Malchukov and P. de Swart, 147–177. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Review of “Discourse: A Critical Introduction” by Jan Blommaert. Interdisciplanary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 11–2: 273–78.

2005

• Oblique Subjects: A Common Germanic Inheritance (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Language 81–4:824–81. See Morgunblaðið.

• Case and Control Constructions in German, Faroese and Icelandic: Or How to Evaluate Marginally-Acceptable Data? (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 75: 1–36:

2004

• The Semantics of the Impersonal Construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: Beyond Thematic Roles. In Focus on Germanic Typology [Studia Typologica 6], 105–37. Ed. Werner Abraham. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

2003

• The Change that Never Happened: The Story of Oblique Subjects (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Journal of Linguistics 39–3:439–72.

• Icelandic vs. German: Oblique Subjects, Agreement and Expletives (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Chicago Linguistic Society 39–1:755–773.

• The Passive in Icelandic – Compared to Mainland Scandinavian (with Valéria Molnár). In Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations, 231–60. Eds. Jorunn Hetland and Valéria Molnár. Linguistische Arbeiten 477. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen.

• Case and Argument Structure of Novel Verbs of Communication in Icelandic. In Grammar in Focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack 18 November 2003, Vol. II, p. 25–35. Eds. Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson & Halldór Á. Sigurðsson. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund.

• Oblique Subjects: A Germanic Inheritance (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 71: 145–202.

• Review of “Beyond Alternation: A Constructional Model of the German Applicative Pattern” by Laura A. Michaelis and Josep Ruppenhofer. Studies in Language 27–3: 663–71.

• Review of “Cognitive Linguistics and the Polish Dative” by Ewa Dabrowska. Cognitive Linguistics 14–4: 379–386.

• Book Notice on “Morphological Productivity” by Laurie Bauer. Language 79–3: 646.

2002

• “Oblique Subjects” in Icelandic and German. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 70: 61–99.

2001

• The Perplexity of Dat-Nom Verbs in Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 24:47–70.

• Case in Icelandic – A Synchronic, Diachronic and Comparative Approach. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Lundastudier i Nordisk språkvetenskap A 57. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund.

• The Evolution of Oblique Subjects (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 67: 57–83.

• The Role of Thematic Roles in Constructions? Evidence from the Icelandic Inchoative. In Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 2000, 127–37. Eds. Arthur Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson and Åke Viberg. Department of Linguistics, Lund.

2000

• Case Assignment of Nonce Verbs in Icelandic. SKY Journal of Linguistics 13:7–28.

• Oblique Subjects in Old Scandinavian. NOWELE 37:25–51.

• Árekstur tveggja hljóðkerfa: Vangaveltur um samhljóða- og sérhljóðalengd í sænsku og íslensku [A Clash of Two Phonological Systems: Some Thoughts about Consonant and Vowel Length in Swedish and Icelandic]. Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði 22: 121–128.

Specialization

•  Icelandic
•  Comparative Research on Scandinavian and Germanic Linguistics
•  Morphological Case
•  Argument Linking
•  Syntax
•  Semantics
•  Syntactic-Semantic Correspondences
•  Construction Grammar
•  Cognitive Linguistics
•  Historical Linguistics
•  Productivity

Current Classes

•  West Nordic
•  The Research Process and its Presentation Techniques
•  Oral Presentation Skills
•  Modern Theories of Grammar and Semantics

Updated February 6, 2012 by JB