ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><title>Øystein Vangsnes</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <div style="font-family: century;"><font size="2"> </font> <table style="width: 800px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" width="116"> <p><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="image.jpg" height="100" width="100"></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="484"> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://uit.no">University of Tromsø</a> : <a href="http://www2.uit.no/ikbViewer/page/ansatte/organisasjon/hjem?p_dimension_id=88147&p_menu=42374&p_lang=2">Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education</a>&nbsp;: <a href="http://castl.uit.no/">CASTL</a> </font></p> <p><font size="4"><strong><font size="5">Øystein Alexander Vangsnes<br> </font></strong></font></p> <table style="width: 100%; text-align: left;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 50px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="2">Name:</font></td> <td valign="top" width="310"><font size="2">Øystein Alexander Vangsnes</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><font size="2">Position:</font></td> <td valign="top" width="310"> <p><font size="2">Researcher (Dr. Artium)<br> </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><font size="2">Institution:</font></td> <td valign="top"> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://castl.uit.no/">CASTL</a><a href="http://castl.uit.no/">,</a><a href="http://uit.no/">University of Tromsø</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><br> </td> <td valign="top" width="310"><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top" width="80"><a href="contact.html"><small>Click here for contact information</small></a><br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;"> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><font size="2"><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">On this page</span></big><br> <br> <a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/index.html#mainresearch">About me</a><br> <a href="CV_Vangsnes_full_jan2011.pdf">CV</a><br> </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/index.html#projects">Projects</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br> </span></font><font size="2"> <a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/index.html#Publications">Selected papers and publications</a><br> </font> <font size="2"> <a href="index.html#presentations">Some recent/upcoming presentations</a></font><br> <font size="2"><a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/index.html#Teaching">Teaching</a><br> </font><font size="2"><a href="index.html#editorials">Blogs and popularization</a><br> </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/index.html#links">Links</a></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div> <hr align="left" color="#aaaaaa" size="1" width="100%"></div> <p><small><font size="2"><small><font size="4"><small><small><strong><a name="mainresearch"></a></strong></small></small></font></small></font></small><font><strong>About me<br> <font style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1"><br> I am a researcher working at the <a href="http://castl.uit.no/">Center for Advanced Study of Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL)</a> at the University of Tromsø. My area of specialization is grammatical variation across the Scandinavian/North Germanic language continuum.</font></strong><font size="-1"> </font><font size="2">Since 2002 I have led the joint Nordic effort to systematically map and investigate <a href="http://uit.no/scandiasyn">Scandinavian Dialect Syntax (the project umbrella ScanDiaSyn)</a>, formally through coordinating a NordForsk network in the period 2005-2010 and through co-managing the <a href="http://norms.uit.no/">Nordic Center for Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax (NORMS)</a> with Peter Svenonius in the same period (see below). Currently, I lead the project grant <i>Nordic Dialect Corpus and Collaboration</i> (funded by NOS-HS in 2009-2012) and I co-manage the project <i>Norwegian Dialect Syntax</i> with Janne B. Johannessen (UiO) and Tor A. Åfarli (NTNU)(funded by the Research Council of Norway in 2009-2012). I have also coordinated the NordForsk CoE network <a href="http://nlvn.uit.no/">Nordic Language Variation Network (NLVN)</a> and the NOS-HS' funded series of exploratory workshops entitled <a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab/rilivs/index.html">Research Infrastructure for Linguistic Variation Studies (RILiVS)</a>. <br> </font></font></p> <p><font><font size="2">I got my doctoral degree from the University of Bergen in January 2000 on the dissertation <a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/ans/Vangsnes/Contents.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Identification of Functional Architecture</span></a>, and most of the time since then I have been active as a researcher at the University of Tromsø. The main focus in my dissertation was on nominal syntax in standard and non-standard varieties of Scandinavian, but the investigations reported there also took up issues concerning expletive constructions (including the Definiteness Effect) and verb movement.&nbsp; <br> </font></font></p> <font><font size="2">Recently, I have been working on issues concerning the syntax of <span style="font-style: italic;">wh</span>-questions and lack of Verb Second in Norwegian dialects, and as a conflation of this topic with my research interest in noun phrase structure, I have </font></font><font><font size="2">recently been investigating the morphosyntax of <span style="font-style: italic;">wh</span>-determiners/-modifiers in Scandinavian (see some of the recent <a href="#Publications">publications</a> listed below).</font></font><font size="4"><strong></strong></font><br> <p><font><font size="2">In addition to North Germanic dialectology and syntax, I'm also involved in research on the Sámi languages and on bilingualism/bidialectism. </font></font></p> <small>See otherwise <a href="CV_Vangsnes_full_Oct09">CV</a>.<br> </small> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <p><small><font size="4"><small><b><a name="projects"></a>Projects&nbsp;</b> </small></font></small></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://uit.no/scandiasyn">Scandinavian Dialect Syntax - ScanDiaSyn:</a> <br> I have coordinated the project umbrella Scandinavian Dialect Syntax (<a href="htpp://uit.no/scandiasyn">ScanDiaSyn</a>) which is a collaborative research effort involving ten Scandinavian/Nordic research groups. The main objective of the project has been to systematically map and investigate the syntactic variation across the Scandinavian dialect continuum, including building up relevant research infrastructure: the <a href="http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/index.html"> Nordic Dialect Corpus</a> and the <a href="http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/index.html">Nordic Syntactic Judgments Database</a>. In addition to research time from the involved partners, ScanDiaSyn has been supported by various Nordic and national funding bodies through separate grants. At present the following sub-projects are active: <i>Nordic Dialect Corpus and Collaboration</i> (NorDiaCorp) and <i>Norwegian Dialect Syntax</i> (NorDiaSyn). </font></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://norms.uit.no/">Nordic Center of Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax - NORMS</a>:<br> <a href="http://norms.uit.no/">NORMS</a> is one of four Centers of Excellence that were appointed by the <a href="http://www.nos-nop.org/nos.htm">Joint Nordic Research Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences</a> (NOS-HS) in 2005. This virtual center, which creates synergy between ScanDiaSyn and Tromsø's Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, has run throughout 2010, and a primary objective and achievement of the project has been to combine detailed investigations of the syntax of Scandinavian dialects with modern linguistic theorizing.&nbsp; The NORMS project has been directed from Tromsø by <a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/">Professor Peter Svenonius</a> and myself. Within NORMS I have furthermore led the Tromsø group and the cross-institutional thematic group on <a href="http://norms.uit.no/index.php?page=1">The syntax of noun phrases</a>. </font></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://site.uit.no/pite/">Från kust til kyst  Áhpegáttest áhpegáddáj</a>:<br> I take part in the interdisciplinary project <a href="http://site.uit.no/pite/">From coast to coast  Áhpegáttest áhpegáddáj</a> which focuses on various aspects of life and culture in the Pite Sámi area in Norway and Sweden, i.e. from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salten">Salten area</a> in Norway to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjeplog_Municipality">Arjeplog</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvidsjaur_Municipality">Arvidsjaur municipalities</a> in Sweden. The project has received funding from the Resarch Council of Norway and is a collaboration between the University of Tromsø, the University of Nordland, and Umeå University as well as a few other affiliated local heritage institutions. The linguistic parts of the project aims at invetigating (i) the Pite Sámi language from a structural and comparative perspective, (ii) Pite Sámi place names in the area, and (iii) Norwegian and Swedish dialect in the area. Pite Sámi is a seriously endangered language with only some 30 native, mostly older, speakers left. It was earlier spoken in both Norway and Sweden, but the last speaker in Norway died in the 1960-ies. </font></p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="Publications"></a>Selected papers and publications<br> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></small></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">Forthcoming: </span>Measureless quantificational exclamatives in North Norwegian and Swedish. To appear in a volume on North Norwegian syntax.</small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">Forthcoming: </span>Syncretism and functional expansion in Germanic <i>wh</i>-expressions. To appear in <i>Language Sciences</i>.<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></small></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">Forthcoming: </span>The polyfunctionality of <span style="font-style: italic;">which</span> in Övdalian. To appear in K. Bentzen and H. Rosenkvist (eds.) <span style="font-style: italic;">Studies in Övdalian syntax</span>. John Benjamins.</small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2011: </span>Hvat fyri hvør? Ei samanlikning av spørjande nominalfrasar i vestnordisk med vekt på færøysk. In G. Akselberg and E. Bugge (eds.) <i> Vestnordisk språkkontakt gjennom 1200 år</i>. Fróðskapur, Faroe University Press, Tórshavn, 239-258.</small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2011: </span>Nye nordiske isoglossar: Dialektforsking ved bruk av Nordic Syntactic Judgments Database (NSJD). In <i>Svenska Landsmål och svenskt folkliv</i>, 2011: 69-78. [With J. Johannessen]<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2011: </span>Reconciling corpus and questionnaire data in microcomparative syntax: A case study from Scandinavian. In F. Gregersen et al. (eds.) <span style="font-style: italic;">Language Variation - European Perspectives III. </span>. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 135-148. [With J. Johannessen] </small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2010a: </span> <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9582.2010.01170.x/pdf">Introduction: Exclamatives in North Germanic and beyond.</a> <i>Studia Linguistica</i> 2010; Vol. 64.(1), p. 1-15. [With K. Abels].</small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2010b: </span> The Nordic Dialect Corpus and Database: Methodological challenges in collecting data. In B. Heselwood & C. Upton (eds.) <i>Proceedings of Methods XIII</i>. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, p. 113-122. [With J. Johannessen, S. Laake, A. Lindstad, and T. Åfarli].</small></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><font size="-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009a:</span> <a href="http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/10062/9730/1/paper26.pdf">The Nordic Dialect Corpus  an Advanced Research Tool</a>. In K. Jokinen and E. Bick (eds.) <i>NEALT Proceedings Series</i>, Vol. 4, 73-80. [With J. Johannessen, J. Priestley, K. Hagen and T. Åfarli] <br> </font></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><font size="-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009b:</span> <a href="http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/10062/9810/1/paper76.pdf">The Nordic Dialect Database &#8211; Mapping Microsyntactic Variation in the Scandinavian Languages</a>. In K. Jokinen and E. Bick (eds.) <i>NEALT Proceedings Series</i>, Vol. 4, 283-286. [With A. Lindstad, A. Nøklestad and J. Johannessen] <br> </font></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><font size="-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009c:</span> <a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/001000">Faroese <i>wh</i>-nominals</a>, <a href="http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/nordlyd/issue/view/32"><i>Nordlyd</i> 36:2, <i>NORMS Papers on Faroese</i>, 231 253</a>.<br> </font></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; font-weight: normal;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2008a:</span> <span style=""></span><a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000555">On peripheral doubling in Scandinavian.</a> In Barbiers et al. (eds.) <i>Microvariations in Syntactic Doubling</i>;<i> Syntax &amp; Semantics 36</i>, 419-441. Emerald, Bingley.<i> <o:p></o:p></i></small></p> <font size="-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br> 2008b:</span> <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=2673584"><span style="font-style: italic;">What kind of Scandinavian?</span> On interrogative noun phrases across North Germanic</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Nordic Journal of Linguistics</span>, 31:2, 227-251.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></font><br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><small style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></small></span> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2008c:</span> <a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000658">Decomposing manner <span style="font-style: italic;">how </span>in colloquial Scandinavian.</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">Studia Linguistica </span>62:1, 119-141. <br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">2008d:</span><span style=""> </span><a href="papers/VangsnesNoTa.pdf">Omkring adnominalt <span style="font-style: italic;">å</span><i>ssen/hvordan</i></a><a href="papers/VangsnesNoTa.pdf"> i Oslo-målet</a> [On adnominal <i>åssen/hvordan</i> &#8216;how&#8217; in the Oslo dialect]. In J. Johannessen and K. Hagen (eds.): <i>Språk i Oslo. Ny forskning omkring talespråk.</i> [Language in Oslo. New research about spoken language] Novus forlag, Oslo.</small><p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2006:</span> <a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000204">Microparameters for Norwegian <em>wh</em>-grammars</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Linguistic Variation Yearbook</span> 5, 187-226.</font></p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2005:</span> (with Marit R. Westergaard) <a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/WestVangJCGL.pdf">WH-questions, V2, and the Left Periphery of three Norwegian dialect types</a>. <i>Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics </i>8. 119-160<i>.</i> </font></p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2004:</span> <a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/wh%26V2.pdf">On <i>wh</i>-questions and V2 across Norwegian dialects: a survey and some speculations</a>, <i>Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax </i>73, 1-59. </font></p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2003:</span> (co-edited with Anders Holmberg and Lars-Olof Delsing) <i><a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/Dialektboka.pdf">Dialektsyntaktiska studier av den nordiska nominalfrasen</a>. </i>Novus forlag, Oslo. </font></p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><strong>2002: </strong><a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/vangsnes/VangsnesEPP.pdf">Icelandic expletive constructions and the distribution of subject types</a>. In Peter Svenonius (ed.): <i>Subjects, Expletives, and the Extended Projection Principle</i>, 43-70. Oxford University Press.&nbsp;</font> </p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2002:</span> A verb's gotta do what a verb's gotta do! On Scandinavian infinitivals and the AGR parameter. In J.W. Zwart and W. Abraham (eds.) <i>Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax</i> , 205-219, Benjamins, Amsterdam.&nbsp; </font></p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2001:</span> <a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000206">On noun phrase architecture, referentiality, and article systems</a>. In <i>Studia Linguistica </i>55, 249-299<i>.</i> </font></p> <p style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1999:</span> <i><a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/ans/Vangsnes/Contents.html">The identification of functional architecture</a></i>, doctoral dissertation defended on 29 January 2000. (<a href="http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/ans/Vangsnes/Contents.html">Table of contents and downloadable files here</a>.) A trial lecture on the assigned topic <i><a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/Vangsnes/PF.0AV.pdf">Grammatical change and generative theory</a> </i>was given on 28 January 2000. (<a href="http://www.uib.no/info/dr_grad/2000/Vangsnes.html">Press bulletin</a>)&nbsp; </font></p> <p><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1994</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span> </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">The syntactic source and semantic reflexes of the Definiteness Effect</i><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Cand. philol. (MA) thesis published in </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Skriftserie fra Institutt for fonetikk og lingvistikk</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 48. Universitetet i Bergen: Institutt for fonetikk og lingvistikk . </span><br> </font></p> <font size="3"><strong></strong></font> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><font size="3"><strong><font size="4"><a name="presentations"></a><small>Some recent/upcoming presentations</small> </font></strong></font><font size="4"><strong></strong></font><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br> </span></p> <small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2011: </span>Microvariation as diachrony: on how a minuscule grammatical change led to an elaborate pattern of synchronic variation. Paper presented [with Marit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal] at <a href="http://www.iclave.uni-freiburg.de/programmeiclave6">ICLaVE 6</a>, University of Freiburg, 28 June  1 July. </small></p> <small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2011: </span> Syncretism and functional migration of Germanic <i>wh</i>-expressions. Paper presented at the <a href="http://www.cgsw26.nl/">26th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop</a>, University of Amsterdam, 23-24 June. </small></p> <small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2010: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Wh-</span>extraction and left peripheral syntax across Norwegian dialects. Paper presented at the NORMS Closing Seminar and Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 25, University of Tromsø, June 10-12. [With Marit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal] </small></p> <small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Grammaticalization paths for Germanic </span>wh<span style="font-style: italic;">-items</span>. Paper selected for Current trends in grammaticalization research, University of Groningen, October 8-9. </small></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009: </span></small></span><small><span style="font-style: italic;">The adnominal </span>wh<span style="font-style: italic;">-cycle</span>. Selected paper presented at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 10-14 August. </small></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009: </span></small></span><small><span style="font-style: italic;">Reconciling corpus and questionnaire data in microcomparative syntax. </span>Invited paper at the workshop Corpus methodology and the study of language variation and change at ICLaVE 5, University of Copenhagen, 24-27 June. </small><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></small></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small><span style="font-weight: bold;">2008: </span></small></span><small><span style="font-style: italic;">Nations apart: Experiences from the Scandinavian dialect syntax project.</span> Invited paper presentation at the Edisyn Workshop for Eastern European Dialect Syntax, University of Venice, 18-20 September. </small><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small> <br> <br> </small></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><small>2008: </small></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><small>What does the <small>SHAPE</small> of <small>MANNER</small> and <small>KIND</small> look like? </small></span><small>Paper presentation at the NORMS seminar <a href="http://norms.uit.no/index.php?page=NORMSseminar2008">Typology and Nordic Dialect Variation</a>, University of Helsinki 5-6 June. <br> <br> </font> </p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><font size="2"><font size="2"><big><strong><a name="Teaching"></a>Teaching<br> </strong></big><br> The current semester (spring 2012) I am not teaching any courses. I have previously taught various courses in General and Nordic Linguistics at the Universities of Tromsø, Bergen, and Umeå. <br> <br> </font></font> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><font size="2"><font size="2"><big><strong><a name="editorials"></a>Blogs and popularization</strong></big></font><br><br> Follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/OysteinVangsnes">Twitter</a>!<br><br> In October 2010 the book <a href="http://skald.no/utgjevingar/grautmaal.html"><i>Grautmål</i></a>, co-authored with NRK journalist <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.143676">Arve Uglum</a>, was released. The book is based on a radio program by Uglum where listeners in Sogn og Fjordane county phoned in and explained dialect words. In the book some 90 dialogues between Uglum and the listeners have been transcribed and supplied with a commentary by me in which I provide further information about each word in question as well as about various dialect features that display themselves in the dialogues. <br><br> Since 2008 I have written pieces for the blog at <a href="http://forskning.no/blog">forskning.no</a>, which is a Norwegian national web portal for communication and popularization of research. My contributions there are listed <a href="http://www.forskning.no/blog/vangsnes"> on this page</a>.<br> <p>I've also been an active contributor to <a href="http://uit.no/scandiasyn/blog/1?Language=no">the ScanDiaSyn blog</a> where entries about ongoing or upcoming activities within ScanDiaSyn and NORMS are put, such as for instance field reports from the various week-long NORMS fieldwork trips that have taken place more or less every semester since June 2006. <br><br> <font size="2"><font size="2">Media pieces related to the Scandinavian dialect syntax project, many of which have involved me, are listed at <a href="http://uit.no/scandiasyn/media/">ScanDiaSyn's media page</a>.&nbsp;</font></font><font size="2"><font size="2">The following is a list of editorials on language and linguistics </font></font><font size="2"><font size="2">that I have written or co-written and which have appeared </font></font><font size="2"><font size="2">in Norwegian and Scandinavian newspapers and magazines:<br> <br> &#8211; <a href="http://uit.no/labyrint/2007_01/5092">Dialekten din er viktig!</a>, Labyrint, 1:2007.<br> &#8211; <a href="http://www.dalarnastidningar.se/opinion/insandare/article236394.ece">Svenska språket &#8211; ett hot mot älvdalskan</a>, Mora Tidning/Dalarnas Tidningar, 2 October 2007.<br> &#8211; <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2006/03/28/462054.html">Nye utfordringer i språkforskningen</a>, Dagbladet, 28 March 2006.<br> &#8211; <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001040076435&amp;tag=emneord&amp;words=spr%E5k">Dansk tunge</a>, Dagbladet, 24 September 2004.<br> &#8211; <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/1999/02/17/158130.html">Språklig forfall og barns språksans</a>, Dagbladet, 17 February 1999.<br> <br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> </font> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"></font><b><font size="4"><a name="links"></a></font></b><font size="4"><strong></strong></font><font size="4"><strong><small>Links</small></strong></font><br> <font size="2"><br> <a href="http://scandiasyn.uit.no/">ScanDiaSyn &#8211; Scandinavian Dialect Syntax</a><br> <a href="http://norms.uit.no/">NORMS &#8211; Nordic Center of Excellence in Micocomparative Syntax</a><br> <a href="http://castl.uit.no/">CASTL &#8211; Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics</a><br> <a href="http://nlvn.uit.no/">Nordic Language Variation Network</a><br> </font> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <div align="right"><font size="1">Last updated 23 January 2011 by <br> <a href="mailto:oystein.vangsnes_hj%E1_uit.no">Øystein Alexander Vangsnes</a></font></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </body></html>