Jóhanna Barðdal / Johanna Barddal

Jóhanna Barðdal

Name:	Jóhanna Barðdal
Position:	Research Associate Professor
Department:	Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
Address:	Sydnesplassen 7, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Office:	Humanities Building, room 115
Phone:	+47-55 58 24 38 (office)
	+47-55 20 11 17 (home)
Fax:	+47-55 58 93 54
E-mail:	Johanna.Barddal at uib.no

Education and Academic Qualifications

B.A. Degree in Icelandic and German, University of Iceland (Feb.1992)
M.A. Studies in Icelandic Linguistics, University of Iceland (1992–1993)
Lecturer in Icelandic, Lund University (1993–2000)
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester (2000–2001)
Ph.D. Degree in Scandinavian Linguistics, Lund University (Sept. 2001)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (2001–2002)
Externally-Funded Researcher, Lund University (2002–2003)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics, University of Bergen (July 2003–2008)
Docent "Degree" in Scandinavian Linguistics (comparable to Habilitation in Europe or Associate Professor competence in USA), Lund University (March 2004)
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (July–Dec. 2005)
Acting Associate Professor, University of Bergen (July–Dec. 2006)
Research Associate Professor, University of Bergen (April 2008–March 2012)

Professional Assignments

Coordinator of the Icelandic program, Lund University (1993–2000)
Consulting specialist at the Swedish National Encyclopaedia, Nationalencyclopedien, Bra Böcker publisher (1997–2000)
Member of the advisory editorial board for Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði [Icelandic Language and General Linguistics]. Published by the Icelandic Linguistics Association. (2003–)
Editor of Nordica Bergensia (2004–2005)
Coordinator of the Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology, UiB (2004–2007)
Coordinator of the Norwegian Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology, UiB (2006–2007)

Interdisciplinary Seminars

Projects

Scandinavian – In Past and Present. Book project published by Studentlitteratur, with Bente Martinussen (Norway), Gorm Larsen (Denmark), and led by Nils Jörgensen (Sweden), (1995–1997)
Focus Structure, Word Order and Thematic Structure. A joint Nordic project funded by the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities (NOS-H), with Jorunn Hetland (Norway), Lars Heltoft (Denmark), Marja Järventausta (Finland) and led by Valéria Molnár (Sweden), (1995–2000)
Case in Icelandic. Doctoral Project funded by RANNÍS, Iceland, Lund University and STINT, Sweden, (1997–2001)
The Case of Subjects with Impersonal Verbs in Insular Scandinavian. Funded by the British Academy (AHRB), England, with Jóhannes G. Jónsson (Iceland), Hjalmar P. Petersen, (Faroe Islands), and led by Thórhallur Eythórsson (England), (2001)
Syntactic Productivity
The Impersonal Construction in Icelandic/Scandinavian/Germanic and its Historical Development
Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective

Recent Publications

(2009a): Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex events (with William Croft, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka). To appear in Contrastive Construction Grammar. Ed. Hans C. Boas. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(2009b): Lexical vs. Structural Case: A False Dichotomy. To appear in Empirical Approaches to Morphological Case. Eds. Cathryn Donohue and Jóhanna Barðdal.

(2009c): The Origin of the Oblique Subject Construction: An Indo-European Comparison (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). To appear in Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages. Eds. Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(2008a): The Development of Case in Germanic. To appear in The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Eds. Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana Chelliah. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(2008b): Case in Decline (with Leonid Kulikov). To appear in The Handbook of Case. Eds. Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2006c): Control Infinitives and Case in Germanic: 'Performance Error' or Marginally Acceptable Constructions (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). In Case, Valency and Transitivity [Studies in Language Companion Series 77]. Eds. L. Kulikov, A. Malchukov and P. de Swart, 147–177. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(2005): Oblique Subjects: A Common Germanic Inheritance (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Language 81–4:824–81. See Morgunblaðið.

(2004): The Semantics of the Impersonal Construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: Beyond Thematic Roles. In Focus on Germanic Typology [Studia Typologica 6], 105–37. Ed. Werner Abraham. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

(2003a): The Change that Never Happened: The Story of Oblique Subjects (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Journal of Linguistics 39–3:439–72.

(2003b): Icelandic vs. German: Oblique Subjects, Agreement and Expletives (with Thórhallur Eythórsson). Chicago Linguistic Society 39–1:755–773.

(2003c): The Passive in Icelandic – Compared to Mainland Scandinavian (with Valéria Molnár). In Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations, 231–60. Eds. Jorunn Hetland and Valéria Molnár. Linguistische Arbeiten 477. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen.

(2003d): Case and Argument Structure of Novel Verbs of Communication in Icelandic. In Grammar in Focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack 18 November 2003, Vol. II, p. 25–35. Eds. Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson & Halldór Á. Sigurðsson. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund.

(2001a): The Perplexity of Dat-Nom Verbs in Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 24:47–70.

(2001b): Case in Icelandic – A Synchronic, Diachronic and Comparative Approach. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Lundastudier i Nordisk språkvetenskap A 57. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund.

(2000a): Case Assignment of Nonce Verbs in Icelandic. SKY Journal of Linguistics 13:7–28.

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