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Thorbjørg Hroarsdottir

Job description

Seniorrådgiver forskning

Koordinator forskningsstøtte

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  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Information structure and OV order
    2009
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    OV languages: Expressions of cues
    2009
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Notes on language change and grammar change
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2009
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Restructuring and OV order
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2009
  • Anna-Lena Wiklund, Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    On the distribution and illocution of V2 in Scandinavian that-clauses
    Lingua 2009 DOI
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    TYPES OF DPS IN OV ORDER
    Studia Linguistica 2008
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Verb particles in OV/VO word order in Older Icelandic
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2008
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Verb particles in Older Icelandic
    Nordlyd 2008 ARKIV
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Types of DPs in OV order
    Studia Linguistica 2008
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund, Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson :
    The afterglow of verb movement
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2007
  • Anna-Lena Wiklund, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Kristine Bentzen, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Rethinking Scandinavian verb movement
    Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 2007
  • Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund :
    Extracting from V2
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2007
  • Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund :
    The Tromsø guide to the Force behind V2
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2007
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Anna-Lena Wiklund, Kristine Bentzen :
    The Tromsø guide to Scandinavian verb movement
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2006
  • Anders Holmberg, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Agreement and movement in Icelandic raising constructions
    Lingua 2004
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Cues and expressions
    Nordlyd 2004
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Economy: On simplicity, default values and markedness in language acquisition and change
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Language change and language acquisition
    Nordlyd 2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anders Holmberg :
    Agreement and movement in Icelandic raising constructions
    Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2002
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Explaining language change: A three step process
    Linguistics in Potsdam 2002
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    On diachronic syntax
    Nordlyd 2001
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Right adjunction and base positions. The state of the art
    Nordlyd 2001
  • Kristine Bentzen, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Stepwise loss of verb movement
    2009
  • Kristine Bentzen, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    From a V2 grammar to no verb movement: A step-wise approach
    2009
  • Kristine Bentzen, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    From a V2 grammar to no verb movement: A step-wise approach
    2009
  • Kristine Bentzen, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Stepwise loss of verb movement
    2008
  • Kristine Bentzen, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Anna-Lena Wiklund :
    Embedded V2 in Scandinavian: Empirical observations
    2007
  • Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Anna-Lena Wiklund, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Kristine Bentzen :
    Verb Movement in Scandinavian
    2007
  • Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund :
    The Force behind V2
    2007
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Prosodic properties and OV order
    2007
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Prosodic properties and OV order
    2007
  • Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund :
    Spring cleaning of embedded V2
    2007
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Information structure and OV order
    2006
  • Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anna-Lena Wiklund :
    Icelandic V-to-I movement reconsidered
    2006
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Anna-Lena Wiklund, Kristine Bentzen :
    The Tromsø guide to Scandinavian verb movement
    2006
  • Anna-Lena Wiklund, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Kristine Bentzen :
    Spring Cleaning of Verb Movement in Norwegian and Icelandic
    2006
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Null arguments ... or how we are all born speaking Chinese
    2004
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Gledikonur and gledimenn
    2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Expressing cues diversely
    2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Non-universal set of cues
    2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Information structure and word order variation
    2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    From alternation in the PLD to grammar change
    2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Economy: on simplicity, default values and markedness in language acquisition and change
    2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    OV/VO and non-canonical complementation
    Georgetown University Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics 2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Transitive expletive constructions in Icelandic
    Georgetown University Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics 2003
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Language change and language acquisition
    2002
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anders Holmberg :
    Agr, wh-movement, and raising in Icelandic
    2002
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Explaining language change: A three step process
    2002
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, Anders Holmberg :
    Wh-movement involves Greed: Evidence from Icelandic raising
    2002
  • Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir :
    Restructuring in Old Icelandic
    2001

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    CV

    CV

    • 1999           PhD (Doctor artium) in General Linguistics, University of Tromsø, Norway
    • 1995           MA in (General and Icelandic) Linguistics, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
    • 1992           BA in Icelandic Linguistics and Literature, University of Iceland, Reykjavík

    Positions Held

    • 2009-2019           Senior Adviser (EU RTD Coordinator). Department of Research and Development, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
    • 2005-2009           Senior Researcher, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Tromsø. Projectleader for “Syntactic Architecture”, a research project running from 2005-2009..
    • 2007-2008           Visiting Professor, Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
    • 2003-2004           Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
    • Spring 2003         Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA
    • 2000-2004           Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Tromsø. Projectleader for “The implicational relationship of language acquisition and language change” (2000-2004).
    • 1999-2000           Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
    • 1996-1999           Research Scholar (PhD scholar), Department of Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
    •  Fall 1995             Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
    • 1993-1995           Research Assistant, The Linguistic Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík (summer of 1993, 1994 and 1995).

    Visiting Scholar Appointments

    • 2007-2008           Visiting Professor, Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
    • 2002-2003           Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
    • Fall 1996             Visiting Scholar, The Linguistics Program of the Graduate center, CUNY, USA.
    • Spring 1995        Visiting Student, The Linguistic Institute, University of Trondheim, Norway.
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