EF
From Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC)
Introducing adverbial clause
EF 'if', tagged as P; it introduces an adverbial clause (like ÞEGAR often does)
( (IP-MAT (ADVP (ADV Nú-nú)) (PP-LFD (P ef-ef) (CP-ADV (C 0) (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ (PRO-N ér-þú)) (MDPI vilið-vilja) (ADVP (ADV þó-þó)) (PP (P að-að) (NP (PRO-D hvoru-hvor))) (VB taka-taka) (PP (P við-við) (NP (N-D kenningu-kenning))) (ADVP (ADV hugþekklega-hugþekklega) (CONJ og-og) (ADV lítillátlega-lítillátlega)) (, ,-,) (PP (P þótt-þótt) (CP-ADV (C 0) (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ *pro*) (NEG eigi-ekki) (BEPS sé-vera) (PP (P með-með) (NP (NS-D forkunnarorðum-forkunnarorð))) (RP fram$-fram) (VAN $færð-færa))))))) (, ,-,) (ADVP-RSP (ADV þá-þá)) (MDPI mun-munu) (NP-SBJ (NPR-N Guð-guð) ... (ID 1150.HOMILIUBOK.REL-SER,.10))
C is often empty with EF but it can also be overt, like in the example below:
( (IP-MAT-SPE (PP-LFD (P ef-ef) (CP-ADV (C að-að) (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ (N-N mark$-mark) (D-N $ið-hinn) (NP-POS (PRO-N mitt-minn))) (BEPI er-vera) (PP (P á-á) (NP (PRO-D henni-hún)))))) (, ,-,) (ADVP-RSP (ADV þá-þá)) (VBPI Á-EIGA) (NP-SBJ (PRO-N ég-ég)) (NP-OB1 (PRO-A hana-hún)) (, ,-,) (NP-ADV (OTHER-G annars-annars) (NEG ekki-ekki)) (. .-.)))
Introducing indirect question
(IP-SUB (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ (PRO-N þeir-hann)) (VBDI fóru-fara) (PP (P til-til) (NP (N-G fundar-fundur))) (PP (P við-við) (NP (PRO-A hann-hann)))) (CONJP (CONJ og-og) (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ *con*) (VBDI spurðu-spyrja) (, ,-,) (CP-QUE (WQ ef-ef) (C 0) (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ (PRO-N hann-hann)) (BEDS væri-vera) (NP-PRD (NPR-N Kristur-kristur))))))))) (. .-.)))
EF EKKI
Treated as taking FRAG, cf. PPCEME
(CP-QUE (WADVP-2 (WADV hvenær-hvenær)) (IP-SUB (ADVP-TMP *T*-2) (NP-SBJ *pro*) (MDDS skyldi-skulu) (VB skarta-skarta) (, ,-,) (PP (P ef-ef) (CP-ADV (C 0) (FRAG (NEG ekki-ekki) (PP (P þegar-þegar) (CP-ADV (C 0) (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ (N-N höfuðsmaður-höfuðsmaður)) (BEDI var-vera) (VBN kominn-koma)))))))))))))) (. ?-?)))