Academic interests
Researcher in Scandinavian linguistics and Norwegian didactics, e.g.
- Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic analyses of Norwegian/Nordic spoken language (spontaneous speech, corpus linguistics)
- Second language development
- Heritage languages (American-Norwegian)
- Grammar didactics and dialect didactics
Very enthusiastic about research and teaching in linguistic variation and change of all kinds.
Courses taught
Teaching Norwegian/Nordic courses in Teacher Education 1–7 and 5–10, various one-year programs and Master in Norwegian language education, focusing on
- Dialectology, historical linguistics and Old Norse
- Nordic languages and multilingualism
- Nynorsk
- Grammar didactics and dialect didactics
Background
One of the project managers of ALAN – Adult acquisition of Norwegian as a second language (NFR, main leader Ann-Kristin Gujord, UiB), on the early second language development of refugees and immigrants with low education from their home country - focusing on grammar, pragmatics and vocabulary. (2021–2025)
Postdoctor / affiliated researcher in NOT – The meaning and function of Norwegian tags (NFR, led by Kaja Borthen, NTNU), on pragmatic particles in Norwegian dialects. (2014–2017)
PhD from the University of Oslo (2014) on cleft constructions in Norwegian spontaneous speech (link to pdf) – including pragmatic, semantic and syntactic analyses of clefts and other expletive constructions – based on conversations from the Nordic Dialect Corpus and NoTa-Oslo (affiliated with the Text Laboratory, w/Janne Bondi Johannessen).
Positions held
- Leader of the thematic area Language Competences within the strategic research program ELLA – Education, Literature Language (HiØ) (2020>>)
- Member (representative of employees in teaching and research positions) of the University board (HiØ) 2025–2029
- Representative in the Norwegian Language Council's Fagråd for normering og språkobservasjon
- Leader of the Department of Norwegian (HiØ) (2016–2021)
- Vice chairman of the Faculty Board at the Faculty of Education (HiØ) (2017–2021)
- Leader of the national academic council for Nordic linguistics and literature (Nasjonalt fagorgan for nordisk språk og litteratur) (2018 and 2019)
- Leader of the focus area Language didactics within SKuL (HiØ) in 2017 and 2018 (w/Camilla Bjørke)
Partners
- The Text Laboratory, University of Oslo
- Kaja Borthen, NTNU Trondheim
- Mike Putnam, Pennsylvania State University, USA