Kari Kinn

Professor, Scandinavian linguistics

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies

E-mailkari.kinn@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 30 34
Visitor Address
Sydnesplassen 7

HF-bygget

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

Research
Publications

My academic interests include comparative syntax, language change, historical linguistics, language contact and heritage languages. To date, null arguments, pronouns and DP syntax have been been my major focus areas. I am currently investigating aspects of the syntax of American Norwegian, i.e. Norwegian spoken by the descendants of Norwegian emigrants to the USA/Canada. These speakers have acquired Norwegian in a naturalistic setting as young children, but are separated from the speech community in Norway.

I was awarded a PhD at the University of Oslo in 2016 and have teaching experience from courses in Norwegian grammar, syntax and historical linguistics. Before taking up my current post, I held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oslo.

I am the Principal Investigator of the research project Norwegian across the Americas.

Academic article

Show author(s) (2022). Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedish. Languages.
Show author(s) (2022). Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 281-309.
Show author(s) (2022). Pragmaticalised determiners in American Norwegian. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). 91-103.

Show author(s) (2021). Split possession and definiteness marking in American Norwegian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 182-219.

Show author(s) (2020). Stability and attrition in American Norwegian nominals: a view from predicate nouns. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
Show author(s) (2020). Pronominale demonstrativer: Nye perspektiver fra norsk og svensk. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 201-224.

Show author(s) (2018). On Ek and Jak in Middle Norwegian: Mixed Methods in Historical Sociolinguistics. Transactions of the Philological Society. 383-409.

Show author(s) (2017). Null arguments in Old Norwegian: Interaction between pronouns and the functional categories of the clause. Linguistic Variation. 309-346.

Show author(s) (2016). Referential vs. non-referential null subjects in Middle Norwegian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 277-310.

Lecture

Show author(s) (2021). Norsk som arvespråk i Nord- og Latin-Amerika: Norwegian across the Americas.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2023). V2 in non-subject-initial main clauses in Latin-American Norwegian.
Show author(s) (2023). Språkförändring och nordiskt arvspråk.
Show author(s) (2023). Investigating a low-frequency phenomenon in nearly extinct HLs: embedded verb placement in Argentine Heritage Norwegian/Swedish.
Show author(s) (2023). Investigating a low-frequency phenomenon in nearly extinct HLs: embedded verb placement in Argentine Heritage Norwegian/Swedish.
Show author(s) (2023). Embedded verb placement in North American and Argentine heritage Scandinavian.

Show author(s) (2022). Substantiv som predikativ i Latin-Amerika-norsk.
Show author(s) (2022). Stability and change in the C-domain in American Swedish.
Show author(s) (2022). Satsens inledning i svenskt arvspråk.
Show author(s) (2022). Satsens inledning i amerikasvenskt arvspråk.
Show author(s) (2022). Predicate nouns in Latin American Norwegian.

Show author(s) (2021). Transmission of complex variation: American Norwegian argument shift .
Show author(s) (2021). Transmission of complex variation in a heritage language context: American Norwegian argument shift across generations.
Show author(s) (2021). Transmission of complex variation in a heritage language context: American Norwegian argument shift across generations.
Show author(s) (2021). Stability and change in American Norwegian: Perspectives from the nominal domain .
Show author(s) (2021). New approaches to Norwegian as a heritage language: Norwegian across the Americas .
Show author(s) (2021). Investigating historical heritage languages: Possessives in Norn.

Show author(s) (2020). Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian.
Show author(s) (2020). Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian.
Show author(s) (2020). Exploring Norn from a Heritage Language Perspective.
Show author(s) (2020). Argumentskiften över gränser och generationer.

Show author(s) (2019). Argumentskifte over grenser og generasjoner .

Show author(s) (2014). Null subjects in early Icelandic.

Show author(s) (2012). Developing Academic Word Lists for Swedish, Norwegian and Danish – a joint research project.

Short communication

Show author(s) (2020). Et grammatisk uttrykk for nærhet: psykologisk proksimale possessiver i norsk. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. 133-147.

Academic commentary

Show author(s) (2009). Henrik Ibsens skrifter 11. Tekstbind. 1.