Publications

Forthcoming 

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. How to Reconstruct Case and Argument Structure for Inconsistent Correspondence Sets Across Daughter Languages: The Case of ‘Satisfy’, ‘Satiate’, ‘Suffice’ and ‘Be Satisfied’ in Germanic. Under revision for Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Subject as a Syntactic Function. To appear in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. by Hilary Nesi & Petar Milin. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Catrine Sandal. Dependent-Marked Anticausatives in Old Norse-Icelandic: Modeling Productive and Unproductive Alternations. To appear in Functions of Language.
• Somers, Joren, Anna Jessen, Jóhanna Barðdal & Robert J. Hartsuiker. Argument structure as a locus of non-syntactic structural priming: A study of the Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat alternation in German. Submitted.

2026

• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Renata Enghels, Quentin Feltgen, Sven Van Hulle & Peter Lauwers. Productivity in Diachrony. Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics, ed. by Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É Kiss, Joseph Salmons & Alexandra Simonenko. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (in press).

2025

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Gauthier Delaby, Torsten Leuschner & Anaïs Vajnovszky. How to Do Things with Corpora: Introduction. How to Do Things with Corpora: Methodological Issues and Case Studies on Grammar, ed. by Torsten Leuschner, Anaïs Vajnovszky, Gauther Delaby & Jóhanna Barðdal, 1–12. Berlin: J.B. Metzler.
• Cluyse, Brian, Joren Somers & Jóhanna Barðdal. Latin placēre ‘like, please’ as an Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Verb: A Radically New Analysis. Indogermanische Forschungen 130: 323–383.
• Ilioaia, Mihaela, Marleen Van Peteghem & Jóhanna Barðdal. Romanian plăcea ‘like’: An Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Verb. Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics. Online first version.
• Leuschner, Torsten, Anaïs, Vajnovszki, Gauthier Delaby & Jóhanna Barðdal (eds.). How to Do Things with Corpora: Methodological Issues and Case Studies on Grammar. Berlin: J.B. Metzler.
• Somers, Joren, Torsten Leuschner, Ludovic De Cuypere & Jóhanna Barðdal. A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Alternation in German. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 44(2): Article 3.

2024

• Bucci, Giacomo & Jóhanna Barðdal. Dative Subjects in Gothic: Evidence from Word Order. Indogermanische Forschungen 129: 101–147.
• Elens, Wannes, Joren Somers & Jóhanna Barðdal. The Alternating Behavior of the Verb ’Like’ in Old-Norse-Icelandic: Facts or Fiction? Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 110: 1–13.
  
• Somers, Joren. 2024. Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in German and Icelandic: A corpus study. Ghent University PhD Dissertation.
• Somers, Joren, Gard B. Jenset & Jóhanna Barðdal. Argument Structure Constructions in Competition: The Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Alternation in Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. Online first version.
• Somers, Joren, Gard B. Jenset & Jóhanna Barðdal. Subjecthood and Argument Structure of Synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic. Lingua 312: Article 103833.

2023

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Oblique Subjects in Germanic: Their Status, History and Reconstruction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Eleonora Cattafi, Serena Danesi, Laura Bruno & Leonardo Biondo. Non-Nominative Subjects in Latin and Ancient Greek: Applying the Subject Tests on Early Indo-European Languages. Indogermanische Forschungen 128: 321–392.
• Gildea, Spike & Jóhanna Barðdal. From Grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar: A Natural Evolution of the Paradigm. Studies in Language 47(4): 743–788.
• Somers, Joren. Oblieke subjecten in het Nederlands? De casus wachten. Nederlandse Taalkunde 28(3): 350–364.
• Somers, Joren. Linearization and Unaccusativity: The Relative Order of Dative and Nominative Arguments with Five German Verbs of Success and Failure. Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium 17: 54–75.
• Somers, Joren & Jóhanna Barðdal. Comparing the Argument Structure of Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Predicates in German and Icelandic. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 108: 1–25.

2022

• Frotscher, Michael, Guus Kroonen & Jóhanna Barðdal. Indo-European Inroads into the Syntactic–Etymological Interface: A Reconstruction of the PIE Verbal Root *menkʷ- ‘to be short; to lack’ and its Argument Structure. Historische Sprachforschung 133(2020): 62–96.
• Somers, Joren & Jóhanna Barðdal. Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Verbs in Icelandic: An Exploratory Corpus-Based Analysis. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 107: 83–110.

2021

• Pooth, Roland A. On Converse Lability and its Decline from Vedic to Epic Sanskrit: The Verb juṣ ‘to Enjoy’ and ‘to Please’. Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting 7: 217–252.
• Pooth, Roland & Verónica Orqueda. Alignment Change and the Emergence of the Thematic Conjugation from Proto-Indo-European to Indo-European: A Wedding of Hypotheses. Transactions of the Philological Society 119(2): 107–151.
• Somers, Joren. Onpersoonlijke datief-nominatiefwerkwoorden in het hedendaagse Duits: Definitie, inventaris en semantische classificatie. Handelingen – Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij Voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 75: 211–238.

2020

• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson. How to Identify Cognates in Syntax: Taking Watkins’ Legacy One Step Further. Reconstructing Syntax, ed. by  Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea & Eugenio R. Luján, 197–238. Leiden: Brill. OA
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Spike Gildea & Eugenio R. Luján (eds). Reconstructing Syntax. Leiden: Brill. OA
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Leonid Kulikov, Roland Pooth & Peter Alexander Kerkhof. Oblique Anticausatives: A Morphosyntactic Isogloss in Indo-European. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 56(3): 413–449.
• Bruno, Laura. Hoe drukte men schade uit in het Oudfries? Skathia en vedijverende gezegdes. Handelingen – Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij Voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 74: 21–39.
• Bruno, Laura & Peter Alexander Kerkhof. Bodily Injuries and Dative Experiencers in Old Frisian. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 79 (2019): 485–516.
• Gildea, Spike, Eugenio R. Luján & Jóhanna Barðdal. The Curious Case of Reconstruction in Syntax. Reconstructing Syntax, ed. by  Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea & Eugenio R. Luján, 1–44. Leiden: Brill. OA

2019

• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Tonya Kim Dewey-Findell. The Alternating Predicate Puzzle: Dat-Nom vs. Nom-Dat in Icelandic and German. Constructions and Frames 11(1): 107–170.
• Johnson, Cynthia A., Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair & Jóhanna Barðdal. Argument Structure, Conceptual Metaphor and Semantic Change: How to Succeed in Indo-European without Really Trying. Diachronica 36(4): 463–508.
• Pooth, Roland, Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov & Jóhanna Barðdal. The Origin of Non-Canonical Case Marking of Subjects in Proto-Indo-European: Accusative, Ergative, or Semantic Alignment. Indogermanische Forschungen 123: 245–263.
• Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Sæunn & Thórhallur Eythórsson. Stability and Change in Icelandic Weather Verbs: Syntax, Semantics and Argument Structure. The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, ed. by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert & Melissa Farasyn, 69–100. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Vázquez-González, Juan G. & Jóhanna Barðdal. Reconstructing the Ditransitive Construction for Proto-Germanic: Gothic, Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic. Folia Linguistica Historica 40(2): 555–620.

2018

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Introduction: The Reykjavík–Eyjafjallajökull Papers. Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík–Eyjafjallajökull Papers, ed. by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na’ama Pat-El, & Stephen Mark Carey, 1–19. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson. What is a Subject? The Nature and Validity of Subject Tests. Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík–Eyjafjallajökull Papers, ed. by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na’ama Pat-El, & Stephen Mark Carey, 257–273. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na’ama Pat-El, & Stephen Mark Carey (eds). Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík–Eyjafjallajökull Papers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Danesi, Serena & Jóhanna Barðdal. Case Marking of Predicative Possession in Sanskrit: The Genitive, the Dative, the Locative. Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík–Eyjafjallajökull Papers, ed. by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na’ama Pat-El & Stephen Mark Carey, 181–212. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Danesi, Serena, Cynthia A. Johnson & Jóhanna Barðdal.  Where Does the Modality of Ancient Greek Modal Verbs Come From? The Relation between Modality and Oblique Case Marking. Journal of Greek Linguistics 18(1): 45–92. OA
• Dewey-Findell, Tonya Kim & Stephen Mark Carey. Accusative Sickness: A Brief Epidemic in the History of German. Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík–Eyjafjallajökull Papers, ed. by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na’ama Pat-El & Stephen Mark Carey, 213–238. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2017

• Danesi, Serena, Cynthia A. Johnson & Jóhanna Barðdal. Between the Historical Languages and the Reconstructed Language: An Alternative Approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” Construction in Indo-European. Indogermanische Forschungen 122: 143–188.
• Dunn, Michael, Tonya Kim Dewey, Carlee Arnett, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal. Dative Sickness: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Argument Structure Evolution in Germanic. Language 93(1): e1–e22. OA
• Le Mair, Esther, Cynthia A. Johnson, Michael Frotscher, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal. Position as a Behavioral Property of Subjects: The Case of Old Irish. Indogermanische Forschungen 122: 111–142.

2016

• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Carlee Arnett, Stephen Mark Carey, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Gard B. Jenset, Guus Kroonen & Adam Oberlin. 2016. Dative Subjects in Germanic: A Computational Analysis of Lexical Semantic Verb Classes Across Time and Space. STUF: Language Typology and Universals 69(1): 49–84.
• Eythórsson, Thórhallur & Jóhanna Barðdal. Syntactic Reconstruction in Indo-European: State of the Art. Franz Bopp and his Comparative Grammar Model (1816–2016), ed. by J. Gorrochategui, C. García Castillero & J. M. Vallejo. A special monographic volume in Veleia 33: 83–102. 
• Eythórsson, Thórhallur & Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir. A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs: Syntax, Semantics and Argument Structure. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 96: 91–125.
• Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Sæunn & Thórhallur Eythórsson. Þegar veðrið kólnar og vindinn hvessir – þá snjóar hann: Um rökliðagerð veðurfarssagna í íslensku. Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði 27: 9–50.

2015

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Valency Classes in Icelandic: Oblique Subjects, Oblique Ambitransitives and the Actional Passive. Valency Classes in the World’s Languages, ed. by Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie, 367–416. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer & Spike Gildea (eds.).  Diachronic Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Spike Gildea. Diachronic Construction Grammar: Epistemological Context, Basic Assumptions and Historical Implications. Diachronic Construction Grammar, ed. by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer & Spike Gildea, 1–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Cennamo, Michela, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal. Semantic and (Morpho)syntactic Constraints on Anticausativization: Evidence from Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic. Linguistics 53(4): 677–729.
• Dewey, Tonya Kim & Carlee Arnett. 2015. Motion Verbs in Old Saxon with the Oblique Subject Construction: A Semantic Analysis. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 137(2):  183–220.

2014

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Syntax and Syntactic Reconstruction. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, ed. by Claire Bowern & Bethwyn Evans, 343–373. London: Routledge.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Tonya Kim Dewey. Alternating Predicates in Icelandic and German: A Sign-Based Construction Grammar Account. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 93: 50–101.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thomas Smitherman, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Serena Danesi, Gard B. Jenset & Barbara McGillivray. Reconstructing Constructional Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Old Lithuanian. Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by Nicholas Gisborne & Willem B. Hollmann, 49–85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [reprint of an article in Studies of Language, 2012].
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Serena Danesi. Construction Grammar and Greek. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL), ed. by G.K. Giakanis, 375–379. Brill: Leiden.
• Danesi, Serena. 2014. Accusative Subjects in Avestan: ‘Errors’ or Noncanonically Marked Arguments. Indo-Iranian Journal 57(3): 223–260.

2013

• Barðdal, Jóhanna. Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction. In Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar, 438–457. Eds. Thomas Hoffmann & Graeme Trousdale. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Serena Danesi, Tonya Kim Dewey, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Chiara Fedriani & Thomas Smitherman. The Story of ‘Woe’. Journal of Indo-European Studies 41(3–4): 321–377.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thomas Smitherman. The Quest for Cognates: A Reconstruction of Oblique Subject Constructions in Proto-Indo-European. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 28–67.
• Gelderen, Elly van, Michela Cennamo & Jóhanna Barðdal (eds.). Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2012

• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method. Sign-Based Construction Grammar, ed. by Hans C. Boas & Ivan A. Sag, 257–308. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson. “Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies”: Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic. Transactions of the Philological Society 110(3): 363–393.
• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Thomas Smitherman, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Serena Danesi, Gard B. Jenset & Barbara McGillivray. Reconstructing Constructional Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Old Lithuanian. Studies in Language 36(3): 511–547.
• Cennamo, Michela, Jóhanna Barðdal & Elly van Gelderen (eds.). A special guest-edited issue on Variation and Change in Argument Realization. Transactions of the Philological Society 110(3): 311–442.
• Dahl, Eystein & Chiara Fedriani. The Argument Structure of Experience: Experiential Constructions in Early Vedic, Homeric Greek and Old Latin. Transactions of the Philological Society 110(3): 342–362.