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My research is concerned with identifying the building blocks of human language. I do this in various ways. One method involves careful grammatical analyses of various phenomena. Such analyses can uncover general grammatical rules and building blocks that occur in different parts of language (sentences, words, sounds, etc.) and create the basis for further psychological and neurological investigations. The hypothesis is that there are general and abstract rules, categories and principles that constitute human language, and that these interface with general cognition in specific ways. In 2014, I published a monograph with Oxford University Press, "Phrase structure and argument Structure: a case study of the syntax-semantics interface", outlining one concrete proposal relying on three abstract mechanisms that were argued to generate and interpret sentences. In a lot of recent work, I have been investigating language mixing and what this tells us about the structure of human language, and I have also been doing research on grammatical gender, in particular in Norwegian.
I am also interested in the history of modern grammatical theory, and how particular frameworks differ and how and why they evolved. In addition, I have a deep interest in fundamental philosophical questions as they pertain to linguistics. These include: What is the capacity for language? How does it arise in the individual? How is it put to use? I am especially interested in what (if any) operations that govern the language faculty are unique to language, or whether they are part of general cognition.
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International journal of historical archaeology (2024)
Tekabe Legesse Feleke,Terje Lohndal
Glossa Psycholinguisticsno. 1 (2024)
Linguistic approaches to bilingualismno. 1 (2024): 104-114
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO BILINGUALISMno. 1 (2024): 1-36
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO BILINGUALISMno. 1 (2024): 104-114
Oxford University Press eBookspp.7-C1.N8, (2023)
Studia linguisticano. 3 (2023): 453-495
GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICSno. 1 (2023): 1-41
Oxford University Press eBookspp.221-242, (2023)
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The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguisticsno. 1 (2023): 1-20
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