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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

•  Coordinator of the Icelandic program, Lund University (1993–2000)
•  Consulting specialist at the Swedish National Encyclopaedia,  Nationalencyclopedien, Bra Böcker publisher (1997–2000)
•  Member of the advisory editorial board for Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði  [Icelandic Language and General Linguistics]. Published by the Icelandic  Linguistics Association. (2003–)
•  Editor of Nordica Bergensia (2004–2005)
•  Coordinator of the Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology, UiB  (2004–2007)
•  Coordinator of the Norwegian Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology, UiB (2006–2007)

Interdisciplinary Seminars

• 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, the University of Bergen and its Faculty of Humanities.

Recent Publications (complete list)

Forthcoming

• Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex events (with William Croft, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka). To appear in Contrastive Construction Grammar. Ed. Hans C. Boas. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• 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.

• Lexical vs. Structural Case: A False Dichotomy. To appear in Morphology 21 (2011).

• The Rise of Dative Substitution in the History of Icelandic. To appear in a special volume of Lingua: "Case Variation." Eds. Klaus von Heusinger and Helen de Hoop.

• West Scandinavian Ditransitives as a Family of Constructions: With a Special Attention to the Norwegian V-REFL-NP Construction. (with Kristian E. Kristoffersen and Andreas Sveen). To appear in Linguistics 2011.

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

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 March 16, 2010 by JB