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CASTL
Acquisition @ CASTL
NORMS
ScanDiaSyn
Kristin & Erik
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I work at CASTL - Center for
Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, a Norwegian Center of
Excellence, where I have been Director since January 1, 2009. This is an active and vibrant linguistics community, and a
wonderful place to work. I am also involved in NORMS, NORdic center of
Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax, and the project ScanDiaSyn.
My
research interests include first and second language acquisition, as
well
as comparative English and Norwegian syntax, both modern and
diachronic.
The focus of my research in these areas is on the syntax of word
order.
My most important
research project these days is VIA - Variation in the
Input in Acquisition,
where I collaborate with
Kristine Bentzen (who is hired as a post-doc on this project), Merete
Anderssen and Yulia Rodina. Variation in the Input was the theme of a
workshop we
organized at GLOW 2007 in Tromsø, and the papers from this are
forthcoming in the series Studies in Theoretical
Psycholinguistics. Here is a preliminary version of the
contribution of
the Tromsø group: ‘The
Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: Word
Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian.’ This
project also has a diachronic component, and here is a recent paper of
mine, published 2008 in Lingua,
‘Acquisition
and Change: On the Robustness
of the
Triggering Experience for Word Order Cues.’
A subproject of VIA
called VAMOS Variation and Acquisition: Multiple
Object and Subject Positions, run by Professor Paula Fikkert, just
received a grant of approximately NOK 4 million from the Tromsø
Research Foundation. The web page for the acquisition group at CASTL/The Department of Language and Linguistics may be found here.
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