CURRICULUM VITAE. doctor artium Øystein Alexander Vangsnes Department of Linguistics University of Tromsø N-9037 Tromsø Norway

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE doctor artium Øystein Alexander Vangsnes Department of Linguistics University of Tromsø N-9037 Tromsø Norway PERSONAL DATA Born: 30 september 1968 in Sogndal, Norway. Citizenship: Norwegian Private address: Dueveien 1 N-9015 Tromsø Norway oystein.vangsnes@hum.uit.no EDUCATION Doctoral program at the University of Bergen. Dissertation defense held on 29 January Created doctor artium on 8 February Exams in Icelandic for foreigners and Icelandic syntax (MA level), University of Iceland, Reykjavík Candidatus philologiae with specialization in general linguistics, University of Bergen Studies in Finnish and linguistics at the University of Helsinki Candidatus magisterii, University of Bergen with Scandinavian Studies ( mellomfag ; i.e. 3 terms full time), Latin ( delfag, i.e. 1 term), and general linguistics ( mellomfag ; i.e. 3 terms) Gymnasium, Sogndal gymnas. LANGUAGE SKILLS Norwegian (native), Swedish, English, Icelandic, Finnish, German. 1

2 EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001 University of Tromsø, Department of Linguistics: Associate Professor; teaching introduction to linguistics and historical linguistics Umeå University, Department of Philosophy and General Linguistics; guest lecturer for 4 weeks in the fall term teaching linguistics for Cognitive Science (same as below, 1999) University of Bergen, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature from 1 February to 31 August: Associate Professor; teaching introduction to linguistics and generative syntax University of Tromsø, Department of Linguistics: Associate Professor from 1 January to 31 December; teaching introduction to linguistics, semantics, language acquisition, and historical linguistics Umeå University, Department of Philosophy and General Linguistics; guest lecturer for 4 weeks in the fall term teaching linguistics for Cognitive Science (same as below, 1999) University of Oslo, The Text Laboratory: 130 hours in December as Research Assistant Umeå University, Sweden, Department of Philosophy and Linguistics: University Lecturer from 1 August and 31 November; teaching Linguistics for Cognitive Science University of Bergen, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature: Research fellow (from 1 August 1995 to 31 July 1999); teaching duties in General and Scandinavian linguistics (mainly syntax) University of Bergen, Department of Scandinavian Studies: 4 semesters as Teaching Assistant (grammar). FUNCTIONS 2001 Member of the board for the faculty course Introduction to linguistics ( Forprøven i språkvitenskap ) at the University of Bergen (spring term) Representative for graduate students and temporary faculty in the Section board of the Section for Linguistic Studies, University of Bergen Student representative in the Council for the Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen, including several subcommittees (among others the Budget Committee and the Research Committee), altogether two periods of two semesters each Student representative in the Board of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Bergen, altogether one and a half period (i.e. 3 semesters). 2

3 STIPENDS 1998 A 2-month mobility grant from the Nordic Academy of Advanced Studies (NorFA) for research at the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland in Helsinki An 8-month scholarship from the Icelandic government for studies of Icelandic at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík A 9-month scholarship from the Finnish government for studies of Finnish language and culture at the University of Helsinki. OTHER ACTIVITIES Anonymous reviewer for the following journals (publisher and number of papers reviewed are given in parentheses): The Linguistic Review (Mouton de Gruyter; 1), Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (Kluwer Academic Publishers; 7), Nordic Journal of Linguistics (Scandinavian University Press; 2), Studia Linguistica (Blackwell; 2) Chairman of the organization committee for ConSOLE 7 (The 7th Conference of The Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe), held at the University of Bergen, 9-11 December Language expert on a "Place Name Walk" arranged by Systrond Sogelag [Systrond History Club], 5 July, in Leikanger Guest editor for Nordica Bergensia 9: "Syntaktisk variasjon i nordiske målføre: Artiklar frå ein dugnad under MONS 6, 24. november 1995" [Syntactic variation in Scandinavian dialects: articles from a workshop at MONS 6...] Organizer of the workshop "Syntaktisk variasjon i norske målføre" [Syntactic variation in Norwegian dialects] at MONS 6 in Bergen 24 November. BIBLIOGRAPHY The English titles, original or translated from Norwegian, are rendered in bold face On noun phrase architecture, referentiality, and article systems. To appear in Studia Linguistica A verb s gotta do what a verb s gotta do! On Scandinavian infinitivals and the AGR parameter. To appear in J.W. Zwart and W. Abraham (eds.) Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax. Benjamins, Amsterdam 2001 Icelandic expletive constructions and the distribution of subject types. To appear in Peter Svenonius (ed.) Subjects, expletives, and the Extended Projection Principle, Oxford University Press. 3

4 2000 Skandinaviske presenteringssetninger i minimalistisk perspektiv [Scandinavian existential sentences in a minimalist perspective]. In Andersen, Øivin, Kjersti Fløttum and Torodd Kinn (eds.) Menneske, språk og fellesskap: Festskrift til Kirsti Koch Christensen på 60-årsdagen 1. desember 2000, Oslo: Novus Genusbøyningens syntaktiske rolle i nordisk: En komparativ studie av possessivkonstruksjoner i et knippe svenske dialekter [The syntactic role of gender inflection in Scandinavian: a comparative study of a bundle of Swedish dialects]. Folkmålsstudier 39, Strukturell reduksjonisme og abstrakt modellering i lingvistikk: Et blikk på funksjonelle projeksjoner innenfor generativ syntaks [Structural reductionism and abstract modelling in linguistics: a look at functional projections in generative syntax]. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 18, The identification of functional architecture. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Bergen Substantivfraser: Om kapittel 3 i NRG [Noun phrases: On chapter 3 in NRG]. In Nordica Bergensia 21, (The paper appears in a collection of critiques of J.T. Faarlund et al Norsk referansegrammatikk [Norwegian Reference Grammar]) Omkring strukturen til definitte nominalfrasar i nordisk [On the structure of definite noun phrases in Scandinavian]. In Jan Terje Faarlund, Brit Mæhlum, Torbjørn Nordgård (eds.) MONS 7: Utvalde artiklar frå det 7. Møtet Om Norsk Språk i Trondheim 1997, Oslo: Novus Double definiteness and possessive constructions in an Eastern Swedish dialect. In Timo Haukioja (ed.) Papers from the 16th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Publications of the Department of Finnish and General Linguistics, University of Turku, No. 60, Turku Intensiverende nominalfraser i norsk [Intensifying noun phrases in Norwegian]. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 15.1, The role of gender in (Mainland) Scandinavian possessive constructions. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 58, A configurational approach to noun phrase interpretation. J.Costa, R. van de Vijver og Rob Goedemans (eds.): ConSole IV Proceedings, Om-spørsmål i rogalandsk [Om-questions in the Rogaland dialect]. Nordica Bergensia 9, Innleiing [Introduction]. Nordica Bergensia 9, Referentiality and argument positions in Icelandic. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 55, (A shorter version appears in Papers from The XVth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Oslo January 13-15, ) 4

5 1994 The syntactic source and semantic reflexes of the Definiteness Effect. Cand. philol. thesis published in Skriftserie fra Institutt for fonetikk og lingvistikk, The twofold nature of the definiteness effect and the extension/intension split. Gothenburg Papers in Theoretical Linguistics 70, Definiteness and the intensive use of pronominal determiners in Norwegian. P. Ackema og M. Schoorlemmer (red.). ConSole I Proceedings. Holland Academic Graphics, The Hague, Presenteringskonstruksjonen: Tematiske eigenskapar i lys av grammatiske [The Existential-Presentational Construction: Thematic properties in the light of grammatic ones]. Nordica Bergensia 1, Pragmatikk eller syntaks? Presenteringskonstruksjonen i høna-eller-eggetperspektiv [Pragmatics or syntax? The Existential-Presentational Construction in the-hen-or-the-egg-perspective]. T. Fretheim, L.S. Evensen og E. Sivertsen (eds.): Tekst i kontekst. Novus, Oslo, POPULARIZATIONS Articles on place names in Leikanger in several issues of Systrendingen, the magazine of Systrond Sogelag Noen finlandssvenske syntaktiske eiendommeligheter [Some Finland- Swedish syntactic idiosyncracies]. Språkbruk no. 1/99, 3-7 (paper published by the Swedish Language Bureau in Helsinki) Språklig forfall og barns språksans [Language decay and children s feel for language]. Article in Dagbladet 17 February. (Available on the World Wide Web: / Review of Bondevik et al. Målsamlingar frå Bergens Stift av Ivar Aasen printed in Sogn Avis Ler(h)eim og Flug(h)eim om h-en som forsvann og litt meir [Ler(h)eim and Flug(h)eim on the h that disappeared and a bit more]. Printed in Sogn Avis Jonsok eit midtsommarblot for Balder? [Jonsok a midsummer sacrifice for Baldur?] Printed in Sogn Avis 23. juni. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Talks marked * have been screened and selected on the basis of anonymous abstracts.) 2001 Distributiv(t) possessiv [Distributive possessive]. Held at IX MONS, University of Oslo, 22 November. 5

6 2001 *Passing by numbers: on phrasal movement in the Icelandic noun phrase. Held at the 16 th Comparative Syntax Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, 5 May *Scandinavian infinitivals and the AGR parameter. Held at the 15th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Groningen, 25 May *On the interaction of pro-drop and AGR. Held at the 10th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), 14 April Skandinaviske presenteringssetninger i minimalistisk perspektiv [Scandinavian expletive constructions in a minimalistic perspective]. Held at MONS 8 in Tromsø, 20 November Ustabile språksamfunn skaper "grobunn" for språkendringer [Unstable language communities create fertile soil for language change]. Contribution at a workshop on dialects and sociolinguistics at MONS 8 in Tromsø 19 November *Optimal strategies for identifying D. Held at the 14th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Lund University, 8-9 January Geunusbøyningens rolle i nordisk: En foreløpig studie av possessivkonstruksjoner i fire svenske dialekter [The role of gender inflection in Scandinavian: a preliminary study of possessive constructions in four Swedish dialects]. Held at the Sixth Nordic Dialectology Conference, Karjaa, Finland, August *The role of gender agreement in Scandinavian: A study of possessive constructions in four Swedish dialects. Held at The GLOW Workshop on Agreement Systems at 21st GLOW Colloquium i Tilburg, The Netherlands, April Enkel versus dobbel bestemtheit: Strukturen til definitte nominalfrasar. [Single versus double definiteness: the structure of definite noun phrases] Held at MONS 7 in Trondheim November *On demonstrative and possessive constructions in Scandinavian. Held at the 12th Comparative Germanic Workshop i Amsterdam, 9-11 January Double definiteness and Eastern Swedish possessive constructions. Held at the 16th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics in Turku, Finland A configurational approach to noun phrase interpretation. Held (in different versions) at: (i) *VI Colloquium on Generative Grammar in Valencia, March 1996; (ii) Workshop on NP/DP in Trondheim January 1996; (iii) *ConSOLE 4 in Paris December Intensiverende nominalfraser i norsk [Intensifying noun phrases in Norwegian]. Held at MONS 6 in Bergen 23 November Spørsmålspartikkelen om i rogalandsk [The question particle om in the Rogaland dialect]. Held at MONS 6 in Bergen 24 November. 6

7 1995 Referentiality and Argument Positions in Icelandic. Held at: (i) 9. Rask rá stefnan at University of Iceland 21 January, (ii) The XVth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics in Oslo, January The twofold nature of the definiteness effect and the "extension/intension split". Held at The XIVth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics and The VIIIth Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Gothenburg August Are Finnish habitive constructions a subgroup of existentials? Held at the Workshop on Case and grammatical functions in Helsinki, 26 May *Definiteness vs. uniqueness and specificity: on the intensive use of pronominal determiners in Norwegian. Held at ConSOLE 1 in Utrecht, December Pragmatikk eller syntaks? Presenteringskonstruksjonen i høna-eller-egget-perspektiv [Pragmatics or syntax? The Existential-Presentational Construction in a the-hen-or-the-egg-perspective ]. Held at Tekst i kontekst in Trondheim, September. OTHER PRESENTATIONS (Regular seminar presentations have not been included.) 1998 Omkring sammenhengen mellom morfologi og syntaks i den nordiske nominalfrasen. [On the relationship between morphology and syntax in the Scandinavian noun phrase.] Held 24 September at the Department of Scandinavian languages, University of Helsinki A predicational account of the Definiteness Effect. Held at NTNU, Trondheim, 20 August Om du har aldri vore i Stavanger? Litt om ja/nei-spørsmål i rogalandsk [ If you have never been to Stavanger? A little on yes/no-questions in the Rogaland dialect]. Held at the Department of Scandinavian languages, Lund University, 20 October The syntactic source of the Definiteness Effect. Held for Íslenska Málfræ afélagi ( The Icelandic Association of Linguistics ) in Reykjavík mid- September. COURSES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS 1999 National graduate summer school: Language contact and linguistic variation, University of Oslo, June National graduate summer school: Semantics and pragmatics, NTNU Trondheim, June. 7

8 1998 Summer course in Faroese language and litterature, Tórshavn, 27 May 19 June Graduate course i phonology and syntax, November, NTNU- Trondheim Two graduate courses in syntax and semantics, August, NTNU-Trondheim National graduate summer school: Language data and linguistic problems, University of Bergen, 5-11 July Nordic graduate summer school in generative phonology, June, Hvalfjar arströnd, Island LOT Winter School, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January National graduate course: Scandinavian languages and syntactic parameters: Language acquisition and language variation, Tromsø October Summer course in Saami (2 weeks), Inare, Finland th European Summer School in Language, Logic, and Information (2 weeks), Copenhagen Nordic graduate course in computational semantics and translation, University of Bergen Course in generative phonology (one week) in Helsinki arranged by The Linguistic Association of Finland th European Summer School of Language, Logic, and Information (2 weeks), Essex 1992 Summer course in Finnish (3 weeks) in Tampere, Finland rd European Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information, Saarbrücken Summer course in Hungarian (4 weeks), Debrecen, Hungary Summer course in Finnish (4 weeks), Turku, Finland. 8