CASTL consists of two research groups: CASTLFish, led by Gillian Ramchand, and LAVA, led by Marit Westergaard
Professors and Førsteamanuensi | ||
Merete Anderssen | Research interests: 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. |
LAVA |
Kristine Bentzen | Research interests: comparative syntax, dialect syntax, first language acquisition, bilingualism, Scandinavian languages, Sami, verb placement, object shift, scrambling, information structure |
CASTLFish, LAVA |
Antonio Fábregas | Research interests: The syntax-morphology interface, morphosyntactic variation, L2 acquisition, multidialectism, Romance, Scandinavian. |
CASTLFish, LAVA |
Martin Krämer | Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, microvariation. |
CASTLFish, LAVA |
Gillian Ramchand | Research interests: 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. |
CASTLFish. |
Yulia Rodina | Research interests Language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual), heritage languages, multilingualism and education, multilingual language assessment, Norwegian, Russian, English. |
LAVA |
Jason Rothman | Research interests language acquisition and processing across the life span, especially in various types of bilingualism and multilingualism |
AcqVA, Polar Lab |
Peter Svenonius | Research interests: 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. |
CASTLFish |
Øystein Vangsnes | Research interests: Grammar, syntax, morphology, syntactic variation, North Germanic languages and dialects, language variation, multilingualism, bidialectalism, language acquisition, cognitive development, language attitudes |
CASTLFish, LAVA |
Marit Westergaard | Research interests: 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. |
LAVA |
Adjunct Professors and National Partners | ||
Patrik Bye, Nord University, Bodø | CASTLFish | |
Laura Downing, Göteborg | CASTLFish | |
Tanja Kupisch, Konstanz | LAVA | |
Terje Lohndal, NTNU | CASTLFish, LAVA | |
Jason Rothman, Reading | LAVA | |
Roumyana Slabakova, U. Southampton | LAVA | |
Kjell Johan Sæbø, UiO | CASTLFish | |
Post-doctoral researchers | ||
Jorge González Alonso | LAVA | |
Björn Lundquist | CASTLFish, LAVA | |
Natalia Mitrofanova | CASTLFish, LAVA | |
Olga Urek | LAVA | |
Rachel Klassen | LAVA | |
Sergey Minor | CASTLFish | |
PhD Students | ||
Isabel Nadine Jensen | LAVA | |
Ekaterina Fedorova | LAVA | |
Sigríður Björnsdóttir | LAVA | |
Maud Westendorp | CASTLFish | |
Sebastian Bican-Miclescu | CASTLFish | |
Carmen Savu | CASTLFish | |
Bror-Magnus Strand | LAVA | |
Kristina Svensen | CASTLFish | |