The two N'CLAV groups in Sweden, are located in Göteborg and in Lund.

Göteborg

Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg

Group leader: Maia Andréasson, post doctoral fellow [Contact]

Maia Andréasson is the project leader of the N’CLAV network and holds a post doctoral research fellow position (in Swedish forskarassistent) at the Department of Swedish at the University of Gothenburg financed by the Swedish Research Council. Her thesis is an OT-LFG analysis of the subject-adverbial word order in the Swedish middle field, and her current research concerns variation and underlying causes of pronominal object shift in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. MA is also the local coordinator of the Nordic Dialect Corpus collection of questionnaire data in southern Sweden.
Personal webpage

Björn Bihl, forskare, Karlstad university. Personal webpage.

Lars Borin, professor, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg.
Personal web page.

Gustav Bockgård, PhD in Scandinavian Languages, is Senior Lecturer at Dalarna University (on leave) and holds a research position at The Swedish Academy. His thesis describes co-construction of syntactic units in Swedish talk-in-interaction. His present research deals primary with syntax in some traditional Swedish dialects. GB also uses Conversation Analysis to describe norms and communicative structures in old recorded dialect interviews.
Personal webpage.

Elisabet Engdahl, professor of Swedish, works on variation with respect to word order and information structure in the Scandinavian languages. She is particularly interested in the way questions are formed in informal conversations (Engdahl 2008). Question-answer exchanges in spontaneous talk provide very good data for investigating the frequency and contextual cues for grammatical phenomena such as subject drop, topic drop and various long distance dependencies in the Scandinavian languages . Most previous research has looked at isolated examples, but the large data collection of spoken conversations in the Nordic Dialect Syntax corpus enable us to study the way these constructions are used across different dialects.
Personal web page.

Anders Eriksson is professor emeritus of phonetics and was one of the principal investigators for the phonetics/phonology project SweDia 2000 where speakers from 107 Swedish dialects were recorded for research purposes. These recordings form a large database comprising about 1300 recorded speakers and 800 hours of speech. AE currently holds a grant from the Swedish Research Council (#825-2007-7432) to further develop the database material, collected about 10 years ago.
Personal webpage.

Anna Gunnarsdotter-Grönberg, PhD, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg.
Personal web page.

Ida Larsson received a PhD in Scandinavian Linguistics in Gothenburg in 2009. Her thesis is concerned with the historical development of the perfect tense and the syntax-semantics of past participles and perfects in Swedish. IL is particularly interested in language change, and in the interface between syntax, semantics and lexicon.
Personal webpage.

Jonas Lindh, PhD Candidate (Forensic Phonetics), teacher of phonetics and speech technology, associate of GSLT (Graduate School of Language Technology) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.
Personal webpage.

Benjamin Lyngfelt is an associate professor of Scandinavian Languages, Swedish Academy Research Fellow. BL is mainly a syntactician, presently studying argument structure in Swedish from a constructional perspective. Recent work includes control phenomena, voice and transitivity, normative grammar, and Finland Swedish.
Personal webpage.

Jenny Nilsson, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg.
Personal webpage.

Cajsa Ottesjö, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, has a PhD in Linguistics. Her thesis is a study of coherence-creating practices in everyday multiparty conversation with special focus on the discourse markers "så", "men/jo" "i alla fall" in the use as resumption markers. She has had a one year reseach position in the project "Dialektutjämning i Västsverige". At the moment she is enployed in the reseach project Person centered care in Pediatric diabetes and obesity. She is using Conversation analysis in her research.

Johanna Prytz PhD Student, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Stockholm University, field assistant NORDiaCORP.

Lena Wenner PhD student, The Department of Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Gothenburg.
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Andreas Widoff field assistant NORDiaCORP, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg.

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Lund

Centre for Language and Literature, Lund University

Group leader: Henrik Rosenkvist, senior lecturer [Contact]

Anna-Lena Wiklund Ph.D. in General Linguistics, working within
theoretical linguistics (syntax/semantics) with empirical focus on the
Scandinavian languages. She is particularly interested in variation
with regard to V2 and clause-union/restructuring.
Personal
webpage.

Marit Julien The main focus of my research is syntax and in particular the relation between morphology and syntax and the syntax of words. In some works I have combined theoretical grammar with a typological approach, dealing with large samples of languages, but the languages that I have researched in more detail is (Northern) Sámi and Scandinavian (which I think one could fruitfully see as a linguistic whole).
Personal webpage.

Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson
My central research area is syntactic theory and Icelandic/Germanic
syntax, where I have above all been interested in the relation between
syntax and morphology. In recent years I have developed a theory where
the external from of language is radically disentangled from internal
universal grammar. My research topics include word order, noun phrase
syntax, agreement, case (and Case), gender, mood, tense, number, person,
binding, pronouns, in particular silent arguments, grammatical silence
in general, the syntax-context interface, and the nature of language
variation.
Personal webpage.

Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson Hrafnbjargarson is a researcher at the Centre for
Languages and Literature (SOL), Lund University. He studies impersonal
constructions, expletives, and object experiencers in the Scandinavian
languages. Recent work also includes V2, verb movement, and related
phenomena.
Personal webpage.

David Håkansson, post doc, Centre for language and literature, Lund University. Håkansson's thesis is concerned with subjectless clauses in the history of Swedish, mainly Old Swedish, and describes the establishment of the subject constraint. His current research deals with syntactic variation and change in Early Modern Swedish within the framework of variational sociolinguistics.
Personal webpage.

Christer Platzack professor in Scandinavian Languages at Lund University, Sweden. Platzack has specialized in comparative Germanic syntax, mainly Scandinavian, but he has also published within the field of syntax acquisition, diachronic syntax, Aspects/Aktionsarten, and readability.
Personal webpage.

Henrik Rosenkvist senior lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. Rosenkvist is working with diachronic as well as synchronic linguistic variation. He has published articles on grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory as well as on dialect syntax. He is particularly interested in Övdalian syntax. During the period 2010–2013, he will investigate null referential subjects in Germanic languages in the RJ-project GReNS (Germanic Referential Null Subjects).
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