Back to Marit Westergaard’s Home Page Courses in English linguistics taught at the University of Tromsø:
Theses supervised – mainly within the fields of first and second language acquisition of syntactic aspects of English and other languages: In progress Wolleb, Anna. Topic: Bilingual acquisition. PhD dissertation, University of Tromsø. (with Professor Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh) Completed Røreng, Anita. 2011. Die deutsche Doppelobjektkonstruktion: Eine korpusbasierte Unter-suchung zur relativen Abfolge nominaler Akkusativ- und Dativobjekte im geschriebenen Deutsch. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tromsø. (with Professor Olaf Westvik, UiT and Professor Jorunn Hetland, NTNU) Tsegaye, Hiwot. 2011. The Transfer of Word Order by Native Speakers of Amharic Learning English. (with Associate Professor Thomas McFadden) Caglar-Ryeng, Ömür. 2010. Morphological Awareness Skills of Norwegian Adolescent Dyslexics Acquiring English as a Second Language. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Tamási, Katalin. 2010. Segment Interactions in Autism. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. (with Senior Researcher Bruce Morén-Duolljá) Rahman, Syed Shahrier. 2010. Wh-Question and Focus Construction in Bengali: Word Order Variation and Acquisition. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. (with Professor Gillian Ramchand) Hui, Ding. 2010. A Study on Adult Chinese Acquiring Norwegian Word Order. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. (with Associate Professor Thomas McFadden) Haukås, Åsta. 2009. Frequenz, Transfer und/oder Grammatikunterricht? Der L2-Erwerb des deutschen hypothetischen Konditionalgefüges aus kognitiv linguistischer Sicht. [Frequency, transfer and/or grammar instruction? The L2 acquisition of the German hypothetical conditional from a cognitive linguistics perspective.] Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tromsø. (with Associate Professor Beate Lindemann) Maksimova, Irina. 2009. Production of articles and monosyllabic prepositions in early child English: a prosodic account. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. (with Associate Professor Martin Krämer) Rodina, Yulia. 2008. Semantics and Morphology: The Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Russian. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tromsø. (with Professor Tore Nesset) Bjermeland, Lene Kristin Brevik. 2005. Age, Input and Proficiency Levels in Child Foreign Language Learning in Norwegian Schools. Masters thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. (with Professor Mila Vulchanova) Zdorenko, Tatiana. 2005. The Acquisition of Subjects in English and Russian. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Zyryanova, Marina. 2005. The Acquisition of Wh-Questions in Russian and English: The Presence of Pragmatics. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Borge, Aud Inger Nilsen. 2005. Acquisition of Adverb and Verb Placement in Norwegian Learners of English: A Study on Learner Language and the Effectiveness of Teaching. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Filiouchkina, Maria. 2003. How Tense and Aspect are acquired: a cross-linguistic analysis of child Russian and English. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Diakonova, Marina. 2003. The Acquisition of Word Order in English and Russian. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Rodina, Yulia. 2003. Acquisition of Verbal Possession in English. Tromsø. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Evtyukhin, Sergey. 2003. Incidental Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs by Norwegian and Russian Native Speakers. Masters thesis, University of Tromsø. Jensvoll, Maja Henriette. 2002. The Acquisition of Past Tense in English/Norwegian Bilingual Children: Single versus Dual Mechanisms. Cand. philol. thesis, University of Tromsø. Bentzen, Kristine. 2000. ’I like not it like du like it!’ A case study of language transfer in bilingual first language acquisition. Cand. philol. thesis, University of Tromsø. Dahl, Anne. 2000. Unlearning: On the Acquisition of Case Absorption Effects in English Passives by Native Speakers of Norwegian. Cand. philol. thesis, University of Tromsø. Anderssen, Merete. 1995. The Acquisition of Functional Categories. Cand. philol. thesis, University of Tromsø. Ashigbie, Livingstone. 1995. First Language and Developmental Influences in Second Language Acquisition and Use: A Cross-Sectional Study of Ghanaian and Norwegian Learners’ Acquisition and Use of the English Articles. Cand. philol. thesis, University of Tromsø. (with Professor Waldemar Marton) Waara, Renee Hilda. 1992. Syntactic and Thematic Structures in English Passives. Cand. philol. thesis, University of Tromsø. Back to Marit Westergaard’s Home Page |