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Guro Busterud

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Phone +47 22 85 70 66
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1102 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Research interests

  • Second and third language acquisition
  • Grammatical structures in different languages (verb movement, binding theory, grammatical gender, word order, finiteness)
  • Multilingualism
  • Age and acquisition
  • Adult and child language acquisition
  • Theories of grammar
  • Methodology

Projects and collaboration

Teaching

I mainly teach courses in language acquisition, multilingualism and grammar.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise theses on language acqusition (first, second and third), multilingualism and grammar.

 

Tags: Nordic language

Publications

  • Zhang, Xurui; Busterud, Guro & Iacorossi, Michela (2026). Transfer of topic-prominent structure in Chinese learners of Norwegian as a second and third language | Journal of the European Second Language Association. Journal of the European Second Language Association. 10(1), p. 113–130. doi: 10.22599/jesla.174. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Opsahl, Toril; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2025). Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0332-5865. doi: 10.1017/S0332586525000071. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2024). Third language acquisition in the Nordic context. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0332-5865. 47(3), p. 376–378. doi: 10.1017/S0332586524000180. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Kush, Dave Whitney & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2023). Verb placement in L3 French and L3 German: The role of language-internal factors in determining cross-linguistic influence from prior languages. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. ISSN 1879-9264. 13(5), p. 693–716. doi: 10.1075/lab.22058.bus. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Lohndal, Terje (2022). Grammatisk hokjønn i trøndersk barnespråk: Ein korpusstudie. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 40(1), p. 129–156. Full text in Research Archive
  • Anderssen, Merete & Busterud, Guro (2022). Grammatisk kjønn og bøyningsklasse i norsk som andrespråk: En korpusstudie. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 40(1), p. 87–127. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2022). The role of L1 Norwegian and L2 English in the acquisition of verb placement in L3 German. In Leal, Tania; Shimanskaya, Elena & Isabelli, Casilde A. (Ed.), Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference.. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027211446. p. 191–212. doi: 10.1075/lald.67.08dah. Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2021). French as a third language in Norway: The influence of the prior languages in the acquisition of word order. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 12(1), p. 125–144. doi: 10.5617/osla.8913. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ellingsen, Simen Andreas Ådnøy; Busterud, Guro & Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2020). Ukens spørsmål: Hva er "ingenting". Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2020). Hvor mange genus er det i Trondheims-dialekten? Maal og Minne. ISSN 0024-855X. 2, p. 1–36. doi: https:/doi.org/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brøseth, Heidi; Busterud, Guro & Nygård, Mari (2020). "Oppslagsdelen bak i boka gir oversikt over grammatikk". Analyse av grammatisk metaspråk i ei lærebok for ungdomstrinnet. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 38(2), p. 187–225. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brøseth, Heidi; Busterud, Guro & Nygård, Mari (2020). «Oppslagsdelen bak i boka gir oversikt over grammatikk». Analyse av grammatisk metaspråk i ei lærebok for ungdomstrinnet. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 38(2), p. 187–225. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2019). The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. ISSN 1383-4924. 22(2), p. 141–167. doi: 10.1007/s10828-019-09108-7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2018). Generativ grammatikk og andrespråkstilegnelse. In Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland & Randen, Gunhild Tveit (Ed.), Norsk som andrespråk - perspektiver på læring og utvikling. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202584702. p. 52–75. Full text in Research Archive
  • Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Lundquist, Bjørn & Westergaard, Marit (2018). The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0332-5865. 41(3), p. 247–274. doi: 10.1017/S0332586518000203. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Busterud, Guro & Haug, Kristin Nordbø (2026). Anaphoric pronouns in a changing gender system: A case study from a Norwegian dialect. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Opsahl, Toril; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2026). Grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Dahl, Anne (2026). Verb placement in L3 German and L3 French: Evidence from a learner corpus. Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2026). Verb placement in L3 French negation: Beyond transfer. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zhang, Xurui & Busterud, Guro (2026). Transfer av temaprominent struktur i tilegnelsen av norsk som andre- og tredjespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2026). A Longitudinal Study of Development of Verb Placement in L2 and L3 Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2026). The role of explicit knowledge in the acquisition of negation in L3 French. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Busterud, Guro & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2026). The nature of CLI. Is there a role for conscious and explicit processes? Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2025). Språkendring og tap av hunkjønn: Grammatisk kjønn og bøytningsklasse i Oslo-dialekten. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2025). L3-tilegnelse av verbplassering. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2025). Adult learners' development of verb placement in Norwegian: a longitudinal study of L3 acquisition. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sareen, Siddharth; Danbolt, Bjørn Kristian; Aamaas, Borgar; Olsen, Cecilie Sachs; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid & Holmen, Heidi [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2025). AYFs Jubileumsbok - De første ti årene. doi: https:/akademietforyngreforskere.no/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Jubileumsbok-digital-3.pdf. Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2025). Negation and verb placement in L3 French. Insights from written learner production. Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2025). Verb placement in L3 French - insights from written learner production. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lykke, Alexander Kristoffersen & Busterud, Guro (2025). Terminologi for språklig ulikhet i andrespråksfeltet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Iacorossi, Michela (2025). V2 i norsk som andre- og tredjespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Opsahl, Toril; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2025). Language change and loss of feminine gender in the Oslo dialect. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2024). A corpus study of verb placement in L3 French and L3 German. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2024). The acquisition of V2 in L3 Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela & Busterud, Guro (2024). The acquisition of V2 in Ln Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Opsahl, Toril; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit Kristine (2024). Språkendring og tap av grammatisk hunkjønn i Oslo øst og vest. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela & Busterud, Guro (2024). Tilegnelse av V2 i norsk som andre- og tredjespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zhang, Xurui & Busterud, Guro (2024). Transfer av informasjonsstruktur hos kinesiske innlærere av norsk som andre- og tredjespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2024). Hve skjer med hunkjønn? Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Busterud, Guro & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2024). A corpus study of verb placement in L3 French and L3 German. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2024). Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition - CLIMA. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2023). Dette er dei mest populære framandspråka å lære seg. [Journal]. framtida.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2023). Norsk på rekordtid. [TV]. NRK Dagsrevyen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela & Busterud, Guro (2023). Cross-linguistic influence of verb placement in L3 Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Andersen, Merete (2022). Gender and declension class in Ln Norwegian speakers. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Dahl, Anne (2022). CLIMA - et forskningsprosjekt om tredjespråkstilegnelse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2022). Guro forskar på korleis menneske lærer språk. [Journal]. framtidajunior.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Busterud, Guro & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2022). The relationship between L2 proficiency and transfer in L3 acquisition. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2022). Hva skjer med hunkjønn på norsk? Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2022). Acquisition de la position du verbe fini en français et en allemand langue troisième​. Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2022). Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition - CLIMA. Presentation at the ISL research day. Full text in Research Archive
  • Andersen, Merete & Busterud, Guro (2022). Gender and declension class in Ln Norwegian: A corpus study. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Busterud, Guro & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2022). Cross-Linguistic Influence in Multilingual Acquisition (CLIMA). Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2022). Potet eller kebab - hvem snakker norskest i landet her? Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Andersen, Merete (2022). Grammatisk kjønn i norsk som andrespråk: En korpusstudie. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2022). The interaction of target language, prior languages, and structure type in the L3 acquisition of verb placement. Full text in Research Archive
  • Andersen, Merete & Busterud, Guro (2022). En korpusstudie av grammatisk kjønn og bøyningsklasse i norsk som andrespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Anderssen, Merete (2022). En korpusstudie av grammatisk kjønn og bøyningsklasse i norsk som andrespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Lohndal, Terje (2021). Språksnakk: Grammatisk hunkjønn på vikende front flere steder. [Radio]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2021). To move or not to move: Verb placement in L3 French. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2021). Språksnakk. Lytterspørsmål: Har virkelig dansk og svensk mistet feminin bøyningsform? [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2021). Kroppen. Bruksanvisning: Munnen. [Radio]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Blikstad-Balas, Marte (2021). Podkast. Forskerrådet. "Bør kvinnelige forskere få barn?". [Internet]. Forskerrådet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2021). Ordningene ligger ikke til rette for at forskere skal få barn. [Journal]. Khrono. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2021). The interaction of target language, prior languages, and structure type in the L3 acquisition of verb placement​. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2021). Genus i norsk. Andre- og tredjespråkstilegnelse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2021). Flertallet mistrives, og de forsker mindre. [Journal]. Khrono. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland (2021). Innledning til Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrifts temahefte om andrespråkstilegnelse. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 39(1), p. 5–11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Lohndal, Terje (2020). Grammatisk hunkjønn på vei ut av språket vårt. 161(168), p. 22–23. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Ingeborgrud, Lina & Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen (2020). Gjør utlysningene åpnere! Full text in Research Archive
  • Hårstad, Stian; Busterud, Guro; Botheim, Sigrid Sørumgård & Lundemo, Trygve (2020). Forgløym meg ei. [Journal]. Språknytt. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2020). Kjønn og språk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2020). Ukeslutt NRK P1. [Radio]. NRK P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Busterud, Guro; Erdal, Marta Bivand; Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva (2020). Kjære, utålmodige minister [Forslag til liketillingstiltak i akademia]. Full text in Research Archive
  • Tjønndal, Anne Beret; Sandtorv, Alexander Harald & Busterud, Guro (2020). Hvor mange kjønn har vi? Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2020). Making a stand for gender equality. [Internet]. Nordic Life Science News. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2020). Dagens. [Radio]. NRK P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro (2020). NRK Nyheter. [TV]. NRK 1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2019). Verb placement in French L3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Dahl, Anne (2019). Transfer in L3 acquisition - movement to where? Full text in Research Archive
  • Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2019). Acquisition of verb placement in L3 German. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2019). Verb placement in L3 German. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2019). Acquisition of verb placement in L3 French. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brøseth, Heidi; Nygård, Mari & Busterud, Guro (2019). An analysis of how grammatical content knowledge is presented in a text book for Norwegian in lower secondary school. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Lind, Guro Elisabeth (2018). Sløser med kvinnelig talent. p. 4–4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne & Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (2018). Word order in L3 acquisition. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lohndal, Terje; Busterud, Guro; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2018). Det er ukult å si ei! Full text in Research Archive
  • Lohndal, Terje; Busterud, Guro; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2018). The decline of feminine gender in spoken varieties of Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lohndal, Terje; Busterud, Guro; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2018). Utviklingstrekk for hunkjønn i Trondheimsdialekten – blir trøndersk som bergensk? Full text in Research Archive
  • Lohndal, Terje; Busterud, Guro; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2018). Grammatical gender in Norwegian: Acquisition, Variation, and Change. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2018). L3 acquisition of verb placement. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2018). The decline of feminine gender in Norwegian: A case study of the Trondheim dialect. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet & Busterud, Guro (2018). L3 acquisition of verb placement. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro & Eide, Kristin Melum (2017). Finitthet i norsk som andrespråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ingeborgrud, Lina & Busterud, Guro (2017). De "midlertidig faste" - hva betyr fast ansettelse ved NTNU? Full text in Research Archive
  • Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit; Busterud, Guro & Rodina, Yulia (2017). Hunkjønn kan dø ut. [Journal]. Universitetsavisa. Full text in Research Archive
  • Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Didriksen, Jelena & Westergaard, Marit (2017). Word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift. Full text in Research Archive
  • Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit & Rodina, Yulia (2017). Unge trøndere tar etter bergensk. [Journal]. Bergens Tidende. Full text in Research Archive
  • Iacorossi, Michela; Busterud, Guro & Dahl, Anne (2025). The acquisition of verb-second word order in Norwegian as a second and third language: Cross-linguistic and longitudinal perspectives. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ingeborgrud, Lina; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Busterud, Guro; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Tjønndal, Anne & Stein, Jonas (2021). Karriere etter korona? En studie av hvordan koronapandemien har påvirket yngre forskere i Norge. Akademiet for yngre forskere. Full text in Research Archive

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