Teaching and Supervision
French linguistics, especially syntax and semantics/pragmatics, contrastive corpus based investigations French/Norwegian, error analysis.
Academic Areas of Expertise
My publications are mainly within syntax and semantics/pragmatics. Recurrent topics are coordination in Modern French, tense/aspect, grammatical relations, the theory of valency grammar, and word order. In later years, I have mostly published contrastive studies of Modern French/Norwegian grammar.
Other
I was Head of the Department of Classical and Romance Studies 2003-2005.