ER

Contents 1 Meaning WHICH, THAT 2 Meaning WHEN 2.1 No antecedent 2.2 Temporal antecedent 3 Rare CP-THT parse

Meaning WHICH, THAT

When ER means 'which, that' it is a complementizer of a relative clause (CP-REL).

Meaning WHEN

When ER means "when", there are two possibilities:

No antecedent

(1) if there is no antecedent we take it to be a C as before, projecting a CP-ADV with no wh-word (as in the CP-ADV complement of "þegar")

( (IP-MAT (NP-1 (N-N Fögnuður-fögnuður))
	  (RDPI verður-verða)
	  (NP-SBJ (NP-POS (D-G þessa-þessi) (N-G heims-heimur))
		  (D-D SÁ-SÁ)
		  (ADJS-N hæstur-hár)
		  (NP *ICH*-1))
	  (CP-ADV (C ER-ER)
		  (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ (ADJ-N góður-góður) (N-N maður-maður))
			  (VBPI fagnar-fagna)
			  (NP-OB1 (NP-POS (NS-G engla-engill))
				  (N-D TILKVOMU-TILKOMA))
			  (PP (P á-á)
			      (NP (N-D dauðastundu-dauðastund)
				  (NP-POS (PRO-D sinni-sinn))))))
	  (. .-.)))

Temporal antecedent

(2) if there is a temporal antecedent it introduces a CP-REL clause.

ÞÁ ER

( (IP-MAT (CONJ en-en)
	  (NP-SBJ (N-N önd-önd)
		  (NP-POS (NPR-G Maríu-maría)))
	  (BEDI var-vera)
	  (VAN pínd-pína)
	  (, ,-,)
	  (ADVP-TMP (ADV þá-þá)
		    (CP-REL (WADVP-1 0)
			    (C ER-ER)
			    (IP-SUB (ADVP-TMP *T*-1)
				    (NP-SBJ (PRO-N hún-hún))
				    (VBDI sá-sjá)
				    (NP-ADT (NS-D augum-auga)
					    (NP-POS (PRO-D sínum-sinn)))
				    (PP (P á-á)
					(NP (N-A píning-píning)
					    (NP-POS (NPR-G Drottins-drottinn)
						    (NP-POS (PRO-G vors-vor))))))))
	  (. .-.)))

SÍÐAN ER

				  (IP-SUB-SPE (NP-SBJ *T*-1)
					      (PP (P með-með)
						  (NP (PRO-D okkur-ég)
						      (NP-PRN (NPR-D Egill-egill))))
					      (HVPI hefur-hafa)
					      (BEN verið-vera)
					      (ADVP-TMP (ADV síðan-síðan)
							(CP-REL-SPE (WADVP-2 0)
								    (C er-er)
								    (IP-SUB-SPE (ADVP-TMP *T*-2)
										(NP-SBJ (PRO-N við-ég)
											(NP-PRN (NPR-N Egill-egill)))
										(VBDI fæddumst-fæða)
										(ADVP-LOC (ADV hér-hér))
										(RP upp-upp)
										(Q-N báðir-báðir)
										(NP-ADV (N-G samtímis-samtímis))))))))
	      (. .-.)))

Temporal NP antecedent

Rare CP-THT parse

Rarely, but on occasion ER can also be a complementizer projecting a CP-THT clause. (Check the latter parse when you find it in the corpora, as there may be confusion on this point).