Kristín M Jóhannsdóttir
Biographic Data
| ID | 9341552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristín M Jóhannsdóttir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristín M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jóhannsdóttir |
| SIGNATURE | JÓHANNSDÓTTIR K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8970-3639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Excessive events
This paper presents a detailed semantic and accompanying syntactic analysis of predicates denoting events that we describe as ‘excessive’ in Icelandic. Icelandic uses two types of strategies for marking of excess, the preposition yfir complemented by an anaphor (e.g. Sara bakaði yfir sig ‘Sara baked too much’), and the verbal prefix of- (e.g. Sara of-bakaði kökuna ‘Sara over-baked the cake’). We argue that the former strategy regularly expresses …
Temporal adverbs in Icelandic
Temporal adverbs can usually be divided into groups. Amongst those are adverbs of quantification, such as often , sometimes and never , and frequency adverbs, such as constantly and regularly . This paper presents some new data that shows that the Icelandic temporal adverb alltaf ‘always’ can be both an adverb of quantification and a frequency adverb. When alltaf modifies a progressive construction its meaning shifts, depending on the aktionsart …
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Temporal adverbs in Icelandic
Temporal adverbs can usually be divided into groups. Amongst those are adverbs of quantification, such as often , sometimes and never , and frequency adverbs, such as constantly and regularly . This paper presents some new data that shows that the Icelandic temporal adverb alltaf ‘always’ can be both an adverb of quantification and a frequency adverb. When alltaf modifies a progressive construction its meaning shifts, depending on the aktionsart …
Excessive events
This paper presents a detailed semantic and accompanying syntactic analysis of predicates denoting events that we describe as ‘excessive’ in Icelandic. Icelandic uses two types of strategies for marking of excess, the preposition yfir complemented by an anaphor (e.g. Sara bakaði yfir sig ‘Sara baked too much’), and the verbal prefix of- (e.g. Sara of-bakaði kökuna ‘Sara over-baked the cake’). We argue that the former strategy regularly expresses …
Computer Science (2 works) · Adverb (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Event (particle physics) (1 work) · Icelandic (1 work) · Intellectual Property Law (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Linguistics and language evolution (1 work) · Meaning (existential) (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)