LRC VISITOR: THORBJORG HROARSDOTTIR

Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir joins the Linguistics Department as an LRC visitor for 2007-08. Thorbjörg’s B.A. and M.A. are from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik; her PhD is (1999) from the University of Tromsø in Norway. Since 2005, she has been a Researcher in the Department of Language and Linguistics at University of Tromsø, and affiliated with Tromsø’s Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), where she leads a 6-year project on Syntactic Architecture funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project aims to test current theories of syntax against empirical evidence from OV languages, Scandinavian syntactic systems, and syntactic change. She is the author of Word Order Change in Scandinavian: From OV to VO (John Benjamins, 2000) as well as articles on syntactic change and on the syntax of Scandinavian languages. Thorbjörg’s office is Stevenson 239. Please welcome her and her family.