Member:
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
The North Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Education
B.A. (Philosophy), Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA ( 1970)
Cand. philol. University of Oslo, (1978)
Dr. philos., University of Troms¿, (1987)
Main research fields:
historical linguistics, language and gender studies
Projects in progress:
1) Adverbialization and subject modification and in Old Norse
and Old English.
2) The ups and downs of life - spatial metaphors in Norwegian
and English
Selection of publications:
Books
American English: A handbook and sociolinguistic perspective.
Oslo: Novus. (1983 with Frank Peters)
Sentence adverbials in English: A synchronic and diachronic
investigation. Oslo: Novus. (1988)
A selection of papers
Subject-oriented adverbs in a diachronic and contrastive perspective.
In Raymond Hickey - Stanislaw Puppel (eds.) Language history
and linguistic modelling. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 395-421.
(1997 - with Leiv Egil Breivik)
From manner to subject modification: Adverbialization in English.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics 20. 179-195. (1997)
A feast of senses: Rhetorical devices in the prose of Salman Rushdie
with special reference to metaphors and adverbs. Nordlit
6. 119-132. (1999)
De/construction of gender roles through language variation and
change: the case of Norwegian. I: Marlis Hellinger - (ed.) Amsterdam:
John Benjamins. (in press - with Tove Bull)
Edited works
Sex, language and society. Papers from the 4th International
Troms¿ Symposium on Language. Special issue of International
Journal of the Sociology of Language. (Vol. 2 1992, with Tove
Bull)
Language change and language structure: Older Germanic languages
in a comparative perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (1994
with Endre M¿rck - Olaf J. Westvik)
Papers from the Second Nordic Conference on Language and Gender.
Universitetet i Troms¿: Special issue of Nordlyd 23. (1995 with
Ingvild Broch and Tove Bull)
Modality in Germanic languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(1996 with Olaf J. Westvik)
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