Icelandic temporal connectives

Lexical entries for the Icelandic until words, which Giannakidou takes to lexicalize Karttunen's two untils without overt aspect on the verb (her (43)–(46), from Gunnar Hansson): the durative (þangað) til, and fyrr en, literally 'earlier than', the punctual until that needs the negation ekki.

References

• [Gia02]
• [Kar74b]

def Icelandic.TemporalConnectives.thangadTil : Tense.Connective

(þangað) til is the durative 'until', as in prinsessan svaf þangað til klukkan fimm 'the princess slept until five'.

Equations

• Icelandic.TemporalConnectives.thangadTil = { form := "þangað til", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.until_ }

def Icelandic.TemporalConnectives.fyrrEn : Tense.Connective

fyrr en 'earlier than' is the punctual 'until' of a negated clause, as in prinsessan kom ekki fyrr en klukkan fimm 'the princess did not arrive until five'.

Equations

• Icelandic.TemporalConnectives.fyrrEn = { form := "fyrr en", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.until_ }