Peter Svenonius

Address: Faculty of Humanities
University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Phone: (47) 77 64 54 08 (office)
Fax: (47) 77 64 56 25
E-mail: peter.svenonius@hum.uit.no

1994: Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California at Santa Cruz
1992: M.A. Linguistics, University of California at Santa Cruz
1987: B.A. cum laude Linguistics and Anthropology, UMass Amherst

States (positions held)

• 2006-present: Co-editor for squibs department for Linguistic Inquiry, with Curt Rice and Gillian Ramchand
• 2006-present: President, GLOW XXX
• October 2005-present: Director, Nordic Center of Excellence in Nordic Microcomparative Syntax (NorMS)
• September 2004-present: Principal Investigator, Moving Right Along, an Yngre Fremragende Forsker project
• January 2003-present: Editor for Nordlyd, the University of Tromsø's Working Papers in Language and Linguistics
• June 2002-present: Senior Researcher, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL)
• May 2001-present: Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway
• September 2002-August 2003: Acting Director of the CASTL
• December 1998-January 2003: Coordinator, IGLO (Socrates LINGUA project on Germanic syntax, operating budget $1 million)
• Jan 1996-May 2001: Førsteamanuensis (Associate Professor) in English Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
• Jan 2000-July 2000: Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland, College Park
• Sep 1999-May 2000: Visiting Scholar, MIT, Cambridge, Ma.
• Aug-Dec 1995, and Jan 1992-Dec 1992: Amanuensis (Assistant Professor) in English Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
• August 1994-June 1995: Fulbright Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
• Spring quarter 1993: Teaching Fellow in Linguistics at UCSC. Taught Phonetics. (Half-time teaching appointment).
  

Accomplishments (papers produced and volumes edited)

• To appear, 'The Emergence of AxPart,' to appear in Tromsø Working Papers in Language and Linguistics (Nordlyd).
• To appear, 'Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a Universal Semantics' (with Gillian Ramchand), to appear in The Limits of Syntactic Variation, edited by M.T. Biberauer. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
• To appear, 'Interpreting Uninterpretable Features' in Linguistic Analysis.
• To appear 'Review of Toivonen's (2003, Kluwer) Non-Projecting Words' Language
• To appear 'Russian Prefixes are Phrasal' in the proceedings of FDSL 5
• To appear 'Case Alternations in the Icelandic Passive' in Passives and Impersonals in European Languages, edited by Satu Manninen, Diane Nelson, Katrin Hiietam, Elsi Kaiser, and Virve Vihman. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
• In Press 'Paradigm Generation and Northern Sámi Stems,' in The Bases of Inflectional Identity, edited by Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Nevins. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• In Press, '1...3-2' Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss, pp. 239-288. Oxford University Press.
• 2006, 'Northern Norwegian Degree Questions and the Syntax of Measurement' with Chris Kennedy, in Phases of Interpretation, edited by Mara Frascarelli, pp. 129-157. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• 2005 'Extending the Extension Condition to Discontinuous Idioms' Linguistic Variation Yearbook 5: 227-263.
• 2005 'How Phonological is Object Shift?' Theoretical Linguistics 31.1/2:215-227
• 2004 Review of Dehé (2001, Benjamins) Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, Information Structure, and Intonation submitted to Linguistische Berichte
• 2004 'Adpositions, Particles, and the Arguments they Introduce' submitted to a volume on Argument Structure
• (in revision) 'Prosodic V2' (coauthored with Curt Rice)
• 2004 'Spatial P in English', submitted to a volume on the Cartography of P
• 2004 'On the Edge' in Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects ed. by David Adger, Cécile de Cat, and George Tsoulas. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 261-287
• 2004 'Slavic Prefixes and Morphology' Nordlyd 32.2:177-204
• 2004 'Slavic Prefixes Inside and Outside VP' Nordlyd 32.2:205-253
• 2004 'Prepositions and External Argument Demotion' with Gillian Ramchand, in Demoting the Agent: Passive and other Voice-related Phenomena, ed. by Torgrim Solstad, Benjamin Lyngfelt, and Maria Filiouchkina Krave, University of Oslo, pp. 93-99.
• 2003 'Limits on P: Filling in holes vs. falling in holes' in Nordlyd 31.2:431-445
• 2003 'Swedish Particles and Directional Prepositions' in Grammar in Focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack ed. by Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson, and Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson, Dept. of Scandinavian, Lund University, pp. 343-351.
• 2002 'The Lexical Syntax and Lexical Semantics of the Verb-Particle Construction' with Gillian Ramchand, in Proceedings of WCCFL 21, ed. by Line Mikkelsen and Chris Potts, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Ma. pp. 387-400
• 2002 'Icelandic Case and the Structure of Events' Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 5:197-225
• 2002 'Strains of Negation in Norwegian,' Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 69:121-146.
• 2002 'Review of Zeller (2001, Benjamins) Particle Verbs and Local Domains' Linguist List 13:743
• 2002 Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP (ed.), Oxford University Press. (250 pp.)
• 2002 'Introduction' in Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP (Oxford), 1-25.
• 2002 'Subject positions and the placement of adverbials' in Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP (Oxford), 199-240.
• 2002, 'Case is uninterpretable aspect,' in Proceedings on Perspectives on Aspect Conference at Utrecht.
• 2001. 'Case and Event Structure.' in ZASPIL 26 (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Papers in Linguistics).
• 2001. Impersonal passives: A phase-based analysis. In Arthur Holmer, Jan Olof Svantesson, and Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Lund. (18 pp.)
• 2001. On object shift, scrambling, and the PIC. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics39, edited by Elena Guerzoni and Ora Matushansky. (30 pp.)
• 2000. The Derivation of VO and OV (ed.). John Benjamins, Amsterdam (370 pp.).
• 2000. 'Introduction,' in The Derivation of VO and OV (John Benjamins), pp. 1-26. 2000.
• 2000. 'Quantifier movement in Icelandic,' in The Derivation of VO and OV (John Benjamins), pp. 255-292.
• 2000. Adverbs and Adjunction (ed., with Artemis Alexiadou), Linguistics in Potsdam 6, Potsdam (200 pp.).
• 2000. IGLO project web site: http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/lingua/
• 1998. Review of Non-Verbal Predication and Head Movement, by A. Carnie, Glot International 8.3: 13-16.
• 1998, 'Clefts in Scandinavian' in ZAS Working Papers 10:163-90, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
• 1996 'The Verb Particle Alternation in English and Scandinavian,' ms.
• 1996, 'The optionality of particle shift,' Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 57:47-75.
• 1996, Review of Particles by M. den Dikken, in Language 74: 816-820
• 1996, 'Predication and Functional Heads,' in J. Camacho, L. Choueiri, & M. Watanabe (eds.), The Proceedings of the Fourteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 493-507. CSLI, Stanford, Ca.
• 1994, Dependent Nexus: Subordinate Predication Structures in English and the Scandinavian Languages, PhD dissertation, UCSC.
• 1994, 'The Structural Location of the Attributive Adjective,' in E. Duncan, D. Farkas, and P. Spaelti (eds.), The Proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 439-54. CSLI, Stanford, Ca.
• 1994, 'C-selection as Feature-checking,' in Studia Linguistica. 48.2:133-155.
• 1993, 'Selection, Adjunction, and Concord in the DP,' in Studia Linguistica. 47.2:198-220.
• 1993, 'Agreement in Nahuat,' in G. K. Pullum and E. Potsdam (eds.), Syntax at Santa Cruz, vol. 2 pp. 57-82. Syntax Research Center, Santa Cruz, Ca.
• 1992, 'The Distribution of Definite Marking,' in A. Holmberg (ed.), Papers from the Workshop on the Scandinavian Noun Phrase, pp. 145-64, University of Umeå.
• 1992, 'The Extended Projection of N: Identifying the Head of the Noun Phrase,'Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 49:95-121, Lund, Sweden.
• 1992, 'Movement of P¼ in the English Verb-Particle Construction,' in A. Black and J. McCloskey (eds.), Syntax at Santa Cruz, vol. 1 pp. 93-113. Syntax Research Center, Santa Cruz, Ca.

Achievements (lectures and papers presented at conferences)

• 2006, Lecture series 'The anatomy of P' at EALing, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (September)
• 2006, 'The emergence of AxPart,' at McGill, Montréal (September)
• 2006, 'Complex predicates and the functional sequence,' workshop on Complex Predicates at the Australian Linguistics Society annual conference, Brisbane (August)
• 2006, 'The physiology of P' Invited lecture at the Conference on the syntax and semantics of P, Utrecht (June)
• 2006, 'Slavic prefixes at the interface of syntax and the lexicon' Interphases conference, Cyprus (May)
• 2006, 'Parameters of P' plenary lecture at Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, Santa Cruz (April)
• 2006, 'Parameters of P' seminar at Nijmegen (April)
• 2006, Course 'P (Preposition, Postposition, Particle): Anatomy of a category' Course at LOT Winter School, Amsterdam
• 2005, Forskerutdanningskurs (graduate course) at University of Bergen on Minimalism compared to other theories of grammar (LFG and HPSG)
• 2005, 'Hva spørresetningen 'Er du gammel?' viser oss om adjektivets semantikk, MONS, Bergen (November)
• 2005, 'Rom og bevegelse i språk og tanker' En fremragende aften, Oslo konserthus (November)
• 2005, 'Recursion and embedding in the syntax/semantics of P' Workshop on the Cartography of Prepositions, Venice (November)
• 2005, 'Banyan Trees,' GLOW in Asia, Delhi (October)
• 2005, 'Separating the Degree Argument from the Adjective' (with Chris Kennedy) Workshop on Adjectives, Paris (September)
• 2005, 'Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a universal semantics,' Workshop on Parameters, (with Gillian Ramchand) Newcastle (September)
• 2005, 'The verb-particle alternation in the Scandinavian languages,' ScanDiaSyn conference, Leikanger (August)
• 2005, 'A Particle Theory of Light Verbs,' (with Gillian Ramchand), Complex Predicates Workshop, MIT/Harvard (July)
• 2005, 'Deconstructing Quirky Case,' Workshop on Morphology, Vienna (June)
• 2005, 'Particle shift and phrasal movement,' Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Tilburg (June)
• 2005, 'Russian prefixes and domain boundaries,' Poznan Linguistics Meeting (May)
• 2005, 'The nanosyntax of the Icelandic passive,' Lund (May)
• 2005, Series of lectures in Umeå (April)
• 2005, 'What can decomposition do for you?' Workshop on Adverbs and Adjectives, Barcelona (March)
• 2005, 'Northern Norwegian Degree Questions' (with Chris Kennedy) IGG XXXI, Rome (February)
• 2005, 'Verb-particles and other idioms,' Colloquium at University of California at Santa Cruz (January)
• 2005, 'Verb-particles and other idioms,' Colloquium at University of Southern California (January)
• 2004 'Between inner and outer causation,' Conference on Argument Structure, Tromsø
• 2004, Particles, Nijmegen
• 2004 Complex predicates and functional structure, Novi Sad (May)
• 2004, Causative and inchoative verbalizers in Icelandic, Reykjavík
• 2004, Paradigms and Northern Sámi Consonant Gradation, MIT Workshop on Paradigms (January)
• 2004, 'Prepositions and External Argument Demotion' (with Gillian Ramchand), at Demoting the Agent, Oslo (November)
• 2003, 'Negation as a Universal' and 'Negation in English and Scandinavian,' Two invited lectures at Workshop on Negation, Negative Polarity Items, and related topics in Århus, 12-13 December
• 2003, 'Russian prefixes are phrasal,' Formal Description of Slavic Linguistics 5, Leipzig, 26-28 November
• 2003, 'Doing things with stuff and doing stuff with things' and 'Slavic idées pre-fixes,' invited talks at University of Edinburgh, 5-7 November
• 2003, 'Slavic idées Pre-fixes,' invited lecture at University of Oxford, 8 November
• 2003, 'Complex Predicates and Functional Heads,' CASTL kick-off conference talk, October 2-4
• 2003, 'Stalking the Wild Parameter: IGLO as a research tool,' invited talk at Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop in Durham, September 18-20
• 2003, Talk on Slavic Prefixes, LAGB, Oxford, September 4-6
• 2003, ‘The morphosyntax of Russian prefixes,’ Oslo (August).
• 2003, ‘The morphosyntax of Russian prefixes,’ Lublin, Poland (August).
• 2003, ‘Complex Predicates, Simple Lexical Entries’ and ‘The morphosyntax of Russian prefixes,’ Two invited lectures at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (May).
• 2003, 'Complex Predicates, Simple Lexical Entries,' GLOW in Lund, 9-11 April
• 2003, ‘The morphosyntax of Russian prefixes,’ Novi Sad, Serbia (March)
• 2003, Speech on What we do at the opening of CASTL in Tromsø, January 20
• 2003, Phases at the Interface, a talk delivered at MIT on January 16th (Workshop on EPP and Phases)
• 2003 January 14: English: The International Language of Rock 'n' Roll, lecture delivered at Åpen Dag 2003 in Tromsø
• 2003, Adpositions, Particles, and the Arguments they Introduce, a talk delivered at the University of Delhi on January 7, at the Conference on Argument Structure.
• 2002, 'P' in Reykjavík (November 15)
• 2002, 'What does formal linguistic theory have to offer language teaching?' Tromsø (October 10-12)
• 2002, ‘Argument Oblicity,’ Workshop on Complex Predicates, University of Constance (October 2)
• 2002, ‘Interface-Driven Movement,’ The Displacement Property of Human Languages, University of Tromsø, September 25-28
• 2002, ‘How many types of verb-particle are there? Klaursurtagung, Universität Stuttgart (June 21)
• 2002, ‘P’ at GLOW in Amsterdam (April 9).
• 2002, ‘The lexical syntax and lexical semantics of the verb-particle construction,’ West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California at Santa Cruz (April 5).
• 2002, ‘Prepositions, Postpositions, and Particles,’ at Grammatik i Fokus, Lund University (February 7).
• 2002, ‘Limits on P: Falling in holes vs. filling in holes’ 19th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, University of Tromsø (January 10)
• 2001, ‘Case is Uninterpretable Aspect’ at Perspectives on Aspect, UiL-OTS, Utrecht
• 2001, 'Case and Event Structure' at Workshop on the Syntax of Predication, ZAS, Berlin.
• 2001, ‘The Case of Arguments and the Aspectual Properties of Predicates,’ Predication event at NTNU, Trondheim
• 2001, ‘Case and Event Structure,’ Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, McGill, Montréal
• 2001, ‘Dative Objects and Event Structure,’ Conference on Case and Argument Structure, Háskoli Íslands, Reykjavík
• 2000, 'Impatient spell-out and movement to internal positions,' Conference on Peripheral Positions, York, England.
• 2000, 'Impersonal passives: A phase-based analysis,' 18th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics, Lund, Sweden.
• 2000, 'Negative quantifiers and the Neg Criterion,' First International Conference of Southern African Linguistics, Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2000, 'Phonological overtness and the EPP,' EGG summer school on Generative Linguistics, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
• 1999, 'The expression of negation in Germanic,' Comparative Germanic Syntax, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• 1998, 'Negative object fronting in Icelandic,' Workshop on VO and OV, Tromsø.
• 1997, 'Clefts in Scandinavian,' Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of (Pseudo-)Clefts at ZAS in Berlin, Germany.
• 1997, 'Prosodisk betinget V2' ('Prosodically conditioned V2') at MONS ('Meeting on Norwegian Language') in Trondheim, Norway (work jointly developed with Curt Rice).
• 1997, 'Particle-verb incorporation and participial agreement in Scandinavian,' 13th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• 1997, 'Subject positions and the placement of adverbials,' Workshop on Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP, Tromsø.
• 1995, 'The Optionality of Particle Shift,' at the Eleventh Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• 1995, 'The Economy of Particle Shift,' at the OTS Workshop on Optionality in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• 1995, 'On the Relationships among Dialects of English,' at the Stockholm Conference on American Studies in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 1995, 'Toward a typology of predicators,' at the 14th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics in Los Angeles, California.
• 1994, 'Two Classes of Verbs Taking Small Clause Complements,' at the 68th Annual Linguistic Society of America meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1993, 'Selection as Feature-Checking,' at the 16th Generative Linguistics in the Old World colloquium in Lund, Sweden.
• 1992, 'Edge Effects: the Distribution of Definite Marking,' at the Workshop on the Scandinavian Noun Phrase in Umeå, Sweden.
• 1991, 'The Structure of the Scandinavian Noun Phrase,' at the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax in Stuttgart, Germany.

Activities

• 2005-2010: Nordic Microcomparative Syntax, a Nordic Center of Excellence
• 2004-2009: Moving Right Along, an Yngre Fremragende Forsker project
• 2002: Part of the central applicant group for the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics.
• 2002: Organizer for ‘The Displacement Property of Human Language’ an international conference held partly on a boat and partly in Tromsø.
• 2002-2007: Board member of GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World): Newsletter editor (with David Adger)
• 2002: Taught at EGG summer school in Novi Sad, Serbia.
• 2002: Contact person for Cooperation Agreements with universities in Prague, Novi Sad, Bucharest, and Blagoevgrad.
• 2001: Organizer for the 19th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, a major event with six invited speakers, three workshops, and over seventy selected speakers.
• 2001-2002: Reviewer for various academic publishers
• 2001: Taught at EGG summer school in Nis, Serbia.
• 2000-2: Webmaster for English department, University of Tromsø
• 2000-1: Contact person for exchange agreement with Norwegian Study Centre in York
• 2000-1: Representative for Language Studies in University Project on Web-based Instruction
• 1998: Organizing committee for international conference on 'VO and OV order' in Tromsø.
• 1998: Reviewer for Language
• 1998: Editor, volume on Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP
• 1997-8: Chair, English Department, University of Tromsø
• 1997-8: Contact person for Exchange Agreement with University of Wisconsin at Madison
• 1997: Organizing committee for international conference on 'Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP,' Tromsø.
• 1995: Organizing committee and selection committee for GLOW 18, Tromsø.
• 1993-2002: Reviewer for Linguistic Inquiry.
• 1993-2002: Reviewer for Studia Linguistica.
• 1993: Research Assistant, National Science Foundation grant no. BNS-9021398 to the University of California, Santa Cruz ('Negation and Clausal Structure'); Professors James McCloskey and William Ladusaw, principal investigators.
• 1992: Conference Organizer and Reviewer for Proceedings, Eighth Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, Tromsø, Norway.
• 1991: Research Assistant for Professor Jorge Hankamer, machine-readable Turkish corpus project.
• 1991: Reviewer for Garland Publications' Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series.

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