Research Projects

Current Research Projects

MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender

Time period: 2019-2020.
Funding: Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo).
PIs: Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard

BLINK: Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development

Time period: 2018-2020
Funding: MSCA
PI: Fatih Bayram
Supervisors:  Jason Rothman, Marit Westergaard

DIVA: Disentangling Variation: A crosslinguistic investigation of bilingualism and non-standardization

Time period: 2017-2019
Funding: MSCA
PI: Evelina Leivada
Supervisor: Marit Westergaard

GenBilex: Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon

Time period: 2017-2019
Funding: MSCA
PI: Rachel Klassen
Supervisor: Marit Westergaard

SALT: Syllable Structure: Acquisition, Loss, Typology

Time period: 2017-2020
Funding: Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grand
PI: Martin Krämer

MIMS: Micro-variation in Multilingual Acquisition & Attrition Situations

Time period: 2016-2020
Funding: Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grant
PI: Marit Westergaard

LIA: Linguistic Infrastructure made Accessible

Time period: 2014-2019
Funding: Research Council of Norway Infrastructure Grant
Project manager: Janne Bondi Johannessen
PIs: Tor A. Åfarli, Øystein A. Vangsnes

Individual PhD Projects

Previous Research Projects (selection)

A microcomparative study of ‘doubling’ in dialects of Meeteilon and Norwegian as a case of syntactic variation

Time period: 2015-2018.
Funding: Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education 
PI: Tor A. Åfarli

DASAGO: North Sami Child Language Acquisition

Time period: 2011-2018
Funding: Research Council of Norway
PI: Kristine Bentzen