Stockholm University - General Linguistics (Department of Linguistics) (Department of Linguistics)

General Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

Head of unit:	Prof Matti Miestamo
Phone:	+468162000
Fax:	+468165389
Website:	http://www.ling.su.se
Address:	Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 2-3 Sweden

Projects (12)

Contracts (12)

Researchers (24)

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A typological profile of "Dardic"

A typological study of the grammaticalization of progressive aspect
Period: 8/20/11 - 8/20/16

Disentangling the interaction among gender, number and evaluative markers

Linguistic archaeology on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Period: 1/1/10

Modelling infant language acquisition from parent-child interaction: identifying, testing, and simulating components and consequences of speech and gestures
Period: 1/1/13 - 12/31/17

Palula textual and lexicographic documentation

PhD Project: Towards a Typology of the Adverb Category
Period: 8/20/11 - 8/20/15

Pioneers of Island Melanesia
Period: 1/1/02 - 12/31/05

Postdoc project. Funded by the Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University.
Period: 1/1/10 - 12/31/11

Processing Efficiency and Usage Frequency
Period: 2/1/08 - 1/10/13

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Complex perspective in epistemic assessment: exploring intersubjectivity in language

Period: 1/1/12 - 12/31/14
The proposed project investigates ´complex perspective´ in epistemic assessment. A complex perspective simultaneously denotes the speaker´s perspective with regard to an event and the speaker´s assumptions about the addressee´s perspective with regard to the same event. This conceptual label is ...

Core vocabulary in a typological perspective: semantic shifts and form/meaning correlations

Period: 10/19/06 - 4/19/09
The general aim of the project is to reveal and describe cross-linguistically recurrent semantic shifts and form/meaning correlations (e.g. patterns of polysemy, lexical connotations, lexical motivation in general) in the core vocabulary of human languages and to achieve a better understanding of ...

Hot and cold - universal or language-specific?

Period: 1/1/09 - 12/31/11
The proposal focuses on the conceptualisation of temperature in natural languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc). The project is envisaged as an integrated lexical-typological study of the temperature domain with the aim of describing and ...

Lexicalization of negation and its role for the development of negation markers

Period: 1/1/11
The term standard negation (SN) refers to the negation markers in simple declarative sentences with an overt verb predicate like (i) Maria does not smoke. The negation markers in sentences such as (ii) Britt is not a teacher (a non-verbal sentence) and (iii) There are no ghosts (an existential ...

Linguistic archaeology on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Period: 1/1/10 - 12/31/12
Kuot is a language spoken by some 1000 people on the island of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. It is an isolate, with no demonstrable relatives, and it is endangered as children are not learning it. The project has two interrelated aims.1. To document the vocabulary of ...

Participant perspective as an inflectional category in Chibchan, Nambikwaran, and Mayan languages

Period: 7/1/08 - 6/30/10
The proposed project investigates the grammaticalized expression of inter-subjectivity with special attention to Chibchan, Nambikwaran, and Mayan (Yukatekan) languages. Inter-subjectivity is a pragmatically motivated concept that relates to the speaker-addressee configuration of the speech ...

Pioneers of Island Melanesia

Period: 1/1/02 - 12/31/05
This collaborative project combines the insights of linguistics, archaeology, genetics and biological anthropology to investigate the early human prehistory of Island Melanesia.The big islands to the east and south of New Guinea, in the southwest Pacific, were inhabited by modern humans by 40000 ...

Principia Creolica

Period: 1/1/10 - 12/31/12
The aim of the project is to demonstrate that creoles are descended from pidgin languages, and that they - contrary to what has been claimed - represent a highly unusual case of language development.

Research within typologically oriented linguistics

Period: 1/1/04 - 12/31/06
The proposal is for a grant within the newly announced program for long-term support of leading researchers. A major focus in Östen Dahl's linguistic research has been language typology, understood as the study of human language with a broad cross-linguistic empirical base. His most influential ...

Slimming Human Language to the Bone

Period: 1/1/03 - 12/31/04
The purpose of this project is to study pidginisation from a typological point of view. The reason for a study of pidgins is that concepts such as 'simplicity', 'complexity' and 'expressive potential' have begun to attract increasing interest among linguists. Questions such as "What exactly does a ...

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Agbetsoamedo, Yvonne, PhD student
Selected Topics in the Grammar and Lexicon of SɛlɛɛThe goal of this project is to investigate and describe some selected aspects of the grammar and lexicon of Sɛlɛɛ, a Ghana-Togo-Mountain (GTM) language. Specifically, the study will examine: the Noun Class system, Adjectives, Diminution, Negation, ...

Bergqvist, Henrik, Dr
My research interests are centered around language description and documentation with a focus on epistemic marking systems. I have almost exclusively worked on the native languages of middle and south america where I have spent time in the field in Mexico and Colombia.List of publications

Brosig, Benjamin, PhD student
My main research interests are aspectuality and evidentiality, and different varieties of Mongolic from a function-based perspective that includes historical and areal perspectives.In my thesis I am dealing with aspect and evidentiality in Mongolian. I am basically trying to come to grips with the ...

Dahl, Östen, Prof
A major focus in my linguistic research has been language typology, understood as the study of human language with a broad cross-linguistic empirical base, in particular the typology of tense and aspect systems. Publications CV Home page

Di Garbo, Francesca, PhD student
PhD Research Project:"Disentangling the interaction among gender, number and evaluative markers"The main purpose of this project is to carry out a typological investigation of the interrelations among three grammatical domains: gender, number and evaluative markers. Cross-linguistic evidence of the ...

Gerholm, Tove, Dr
My research interests: language development; pragmatics and in particular pragmatic development; non-verbal communication; emotive expressions and the relation between these expressions and spoken language.Link to publications

Hagos, Desalegn, PhD student
In Transversal South Ethiopic Language Group which includes Amharic, Argoba, Harari, and the East Gurage Languages, we find some verbs with completive aspect. The verbs are subordinate to a following main verb; they do not express tense; and they have undergone semantic bleaching. The assumption is ...

Hallonsten, Pernilla, PhD student
PhD student in the Special Doctoral Programme in Language and Linguistics - FoSprakResearch interests: typology, cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, language change, grammaticalization theory.List of publications in DIVA

Hammarberg, Björn, Prof
Second language theory especially focusing on processes of L2 acquisition and development in adult language learners and on properties of the languages involved; research on third language (L3 acquisition and use by multilinguals); the process of utterance production. Functional and cognitive ...

Heinat, Fredrik, Dr
My research focuses on linguistic theory and the interaction between syntax, semantics and morphology. More specifically I'm interested in the realization, or suppression, of arguments in relation to their licensing predicates. I'm currently investigating light verb constructions from a broader ...

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