Issues in the Study of Icelandic. The Húnaland Meeting

Date: 23-May-2025
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact Person: Hans-Martin Gaertner
Meeting Email: vprynaqvp@alghq.uha-era.uh

Linguistic Field(s): Various
Language Family(ies): Germanic
Call Deadline: 2-Feb-2025
Notification of Acceptance: 2-March-2025

Meeting Description

We invite abstracts from all subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics,  phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, etc) addressing the nature, origin, and use of Icelandic. In addition to presentations of current research, we welcome papers systematically surveying findings from the literature regarding particular topics – such as long-distance reflexivization, clause combining, discourse markers etc – focused on Icelandic.

Venue

HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest

Invited speakers

Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz)

Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)

Program

9.00-10.00
Nicole Dehé (Konstanz) [invited]
(My) current issues in the study of the phonology of Icelandic

10.00-10.40
Ásgrímur Angantýsson & Finnur Friðriksson (Reykjavík)
The current status of regionally distributed phonological variation in Icelandic

10.40-11.10 Coffee Break

11.10-11.50
Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir (Reykjavík) & Nicole Dehé (Konstanz)
The syntax prosody relation in Icelandic: Focus on V3

11.50-12.30
Xindan Xu (Reykjavík)
The acceptability of subject-initial V3 in Icelandic adverbial clauses

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-14.40
Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (Reykjavík)
Predicting the propagation of language change using regular time series

14.40-15.20
Anna Bliß (Leipzig)
On the Syntax of Verbal Mood and LDR in Icelandic

15.20-15.50 Coffee Break

15.50-16.30
Joan Maling (Brandeis) & Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (Reykjavík)
Getting (im)personal: On-going syntactic change in Icelandic

16.30-17.30
Thórhallur Eythórsson (Reykjavík) [nvited] (online)
Adjectival predicates with oblique arguments in Icelandic: Synchronic status and diachronic shifts