Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand

Lecturer - Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier

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The aim of my PhD project is to write a grammatical description of Patani, a language of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) subgroup of the Austronesian language family, with a special emphasis on clausal organisation. Patani is poorly described, and an important part of the project is therefore to document this language through fieldwork in Indonesia, where it is spoken. This PhD project is affiliated with the research project Where does grammar come from? The cognitive basis of transitivity and grammatical relations.

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Transcribing and coordingating for the LIA Project at the Text Laboratory (UiO)
Teaching expercience: Norwegian for international students, and seminar teacher in Norwegian as a second language (UiO)
Master's degree in linguistics from UiO, 2017. Master's thesis: Empirical investigations of grammatical gender in American Heritage Norwegian
Bachelor's degree in linguistics from UiO, 2014, with 40 ECTS credits in Spanish

Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes (2018). Systematic Variation in the Gender System in American Norwegian. In Kühl, Karoline & Petersen, Jan Heegård (Ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8). Cascadilla Press. ISSN 978-1-57473-473-7. p. 88–95. Full text in Research Archive

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Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes (2021). Topicalization in Patani. Show summary
This paper investigates the encoding of certain information structural properties in Patani (South Halmahera-West New Guinea) by considering two object fronting constructions which can be described as topicalization constructions. While this form of topicalization is not uncommon in Austronesian, the case of Patani is interesting since there are two different constructions: one construction contains a resumptive object pronoun in the post-verbal object position, whereas the other construction does not have such a pronominal form. Both topicalization constructions can be used to signal that the subject is not (the only) aboutness topic (in the sense of Lambrecht 1994: 127), and/or that the object referent is contrasted with other (highly accessible) referents (cf. Chafe 1994). Furthermore, new fieldwork data reveal interesting patterns concerning the difference between the two constructions: a) there is a preference for using a resumptive pronoun in the post-verbal position if the referent is animate, and b) a lack of resumptive pronoun seems to indicate that the referent will not remain topical. Finally, this paper notes the occurrence of another interesting construction where the subject referent is encoded by a resumptive pronoun in the post-verbal slot. Whereas this construction is very rare in the present data, certain pragmatic similarities are noted between this and the topicalization constructions.
Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Lundquist, Bjørn; Rodina, Yulia & Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2020). Predictive gender processing in L2 adult learners of Norwegian: Effects of L1 (Greek, Russian, Turkish), syntactic and lexical congruency.
Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes (2020). Semantics of numeral classifiers in Patani.

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Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand

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