Aurora Center grant to the LAVA group Our application to become an Aurora Center has been granted!!! This is a 30 million NOK grant from UiT that will make it possible to hire a number of new people and do many cool things over the next four years (see below …
Our very own Marit Westergaard has been awarded the UiT Research and Development Prize for 2019 for her outstanding work in building up and strengthening the research community at the University of Tromsø. This is what the committee says about Marit Westergaard and her work: “Marit Westergaard is the leader …
Fabulous news just in: Our very own Evelina Leivada has been awarded the prestigious Ramon Y Cajal grant – with the unbelievable score of no less than 100%! The grant provides a salary and research funding for five years and will lead to a permanent position at a Spanish university (not clear yet which …
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has selected Terje Lohndal as the winner of Fridtjof Nansen’s award for 2018. The award is presented to Norwegian researchers who have shown excellence and made an impact internationally through their work. Congratulations Terje! Announcement from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters …
Terje Lohndal has been awarded a research prize for young outstanding scholars from the Research Council of Norway. The prize of 500.000 NOK is one of three awards presented to young researchers within different categories, and is intended to reward high quality work as well as innovative academic thinking. On …
AcqVA will be represented by several oral presentations at the upcoming GALA conference 7-9 September 2017. There will be talks by Tina Ringstad on word order in embedded clauses, Dianna Walla on Norwegian-English bilingual acquisition, Kristine Bentzen and Merete Anderssen on do-support in Norwegian-English bilinguals, Natalia Mitrofanova and Irina Sekerina …
AcqVA group members at the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Stellenbosch (December 2016): Maren B. Grimstad, Brita R. Riksem, Marit Westergaard, Andrew Weir & Terje Lohndal.