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Monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition. The relationship between word order and information structure: subject shift, object shift and dative alternation. DP-structure, especially definiteness marking and possessives.

comparative syntax, dialect syntax, first language acquisition, bilingualism, Scandinavian languages, Sami, verb placement, object shift, scrambling, information structure

The syntax-morphology interface, morphosyntactic variation, L2 acquisition, multidialectism, Romance, Scandinavian.

Phonology, Optimality Theory, microvariation.

The correlations and mismatches between morphosyntactic form and compositional semantics, particularly within the realm of verbal meaning, tense, aspect and modality; the division of labour between lexical encyclopedic content, structural semantics and pragmatics; the relationship between language and general human cognition; English, Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, Scandinavian crosslinguistic comparison.

Language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual), heritage languages, multilingualism and education, multilingual language assessment, Norwegian, Russian, English.

language acquisition and processing across the life span, especially in various types of bilingualism and multilingualism

Syntax and its interfaces with systems for morphological and lexical expression on the one hand and with systems for conceptual and intentional semantic meaning on the other.

Grammar, syntax, morphology, syntactic variation, North Germanic languages and dialects, language variation, multilingualism, bidialectalism, language acquisition, cognitive development, language attitudes

  First, second/third & bilingual language acquisition, heritage language/language attrition, syntactic variation, diachronic change, comparative syntax, word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian, Russian, German.