Ida Larsson (in English)

Phone: +46 8 16 42 95
Fax: +46 8 15 85 33
E-mail: ida.larsson@nordiska.su.se
Homepage address: www.nordiska.su.se/larsson_ida

Postal adress:
Department of Scandinavian Languages
Stockholm University
SE 106 91 STOCKHOLM
Sweden

Research interests

Language variation and change, microcomparative syntax, tense, aspect,verb phrase structure, and the interface between lexicon, syntax and semantics.

Work in progress

GET – syntax, semantics and lexicon

In this project, I focus on the properties of the verb få ’get’ and build on my previous work on non-canonical passives. Få is interesting since it has both possessive, causative, perfective and modal readings, and since it in some ways patterns with modals, and in other ways rather behaves like a lexical verb.

Swedish in America

Joint project with Maia Andréasson (GU), Benjamin Lyngfelt (GU), Jenny Nilsson (SOFI), and Sofia Tingsell (GU).

Web page: https://sites.google.com/site/svenskaniamerika/home/english

The project Swedish in America investigates the Swedish language spoken in America today and to what extent today’s American Swedish differs from Standard Swedish, from Swedish dialects and from the American Swedish spoken in 50 years ago, when Folke Hedblom and Torsten Ordéus made a large number of recordings.

We made our first field trip to Minnesota in June 2011, and in June 2012 we made additional recordings in Illinois. (Both field trips were financed by Torsten Söderberg’s Foundation.) In ongoing work, we discuss e.g. koinéization, (incomplete) language acquisition, bilingualism and attrition.

There is also a project on Norwegian in America:
http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/NorAmDiaSyn/index.html

NALS – Nordic Atlas of Linguistic Structure Online

Together with a group of linguists in Oslo and Tromsø, I am currently involved in developing an atlas over syntactic variation in Scandinavia, Nordic Atlas of Linguistic Structure Online. The empirical basis for the atlas is data collected within the umbrella projcet Scandinavian Dialect Syntax (ScanDiaSyn). The data is available through two research infrastructures, the Nordic Dialect Corpus and the Nordic Syntax Database.

The Nordic Syntax Database and the Nordic Dialect Corpus are available here:
http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/scandiasyn/index.html

Previous projects

2011 Not altogether passive – få ‘get’ + participle in Scandinavian dialects. Text Laboratory, University of Olso. Financed by a postdoctor fellowship from the Swedish Research Council.

2010 Få-passiver i svenska dialekter, [Get-passives in Swedish dialects.] Department of Swedish Language, University of Gothenburg. Financed by the Swedish Academy research fellowship for research in modern Swedish and for Swedish language cultivation.

Publications

In prep.: Larsson, Ida. Unaccusativity and HAVE/BE in the history of Scandinavian. To appear in: Rolf Kailuweit & Malte Rosemeyer (eds.), Auxiliary selection: Gradience and Gradualness. De Gruyter.

In prep.: Bentzen, Kristine, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Piotr Garbacz, Ida Larsson, Björn Lundquist, Øystein Alexander Vangsnes & Christine Østbø, The Nordic Atlas of Linguistic Structures Online.

To appear: Andréasson, Maia, Ida Larsson & Sofia Tingsell. Variation and Change in American Swedish. To appear in: Janne Bondi Johannessen & Joseph Salmons, Germanic heritage languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change. John Benjamins.

To appear: Andréasson, Maia, Ida Larsson, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Jenny Nilsson & Sofia Tingsell. I jakt på amerikasvenskan. To appear in: Björn Bihl, Jessica Eriksson, Peter Andersson and Lena Lötmarker (eds.), Svenskans beskrivning 32.

To appear: Larsson, Ida, Maia Andréasson, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Jenny Nilsson & Sofia Tingsell. Amerikasvenskan förr och nu. To appear in: Norsk lingvistisk tidskrift.

To appear: Larsson, Ida. Inte helt passiv: konstruktion med få + particip i tal och skrift. To appear in: Språk och stil.

2012 Larsson, Ida. On the Development of the Perfect (Participle). In: Ans van Kemenade & Nynke de Haas (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2009: selected papers from the 19th International Conference of Historical Linguistics. John Benjamins

2011 Larsson, Ida & Benjamin Lyngfelt: Tempus i svenskan. In: Christiane Andersen, Antoaneta Granberg, Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), Tid och tidsförhållanden i olika språk. Institutionen för språk och litteraturer, Göteborgs universitet.

2010 Larsson, Ida. Sagatid och sagovärld – om tempus i fornisländskan. In: Kristinn Jóhannesson, Ida Larsson, Erik Magnusson, Sven-Göran Malmgren, Lena Rogström & Emma Sköldberg (eds.), Bo65. Festskrift till Bo Ralph. Göteborgs universitet.

2010 Bo65. Festskrift till Bo Ralph. Ed. by Kristinn Jóhannesson, Ida Larsson, Erik Magnusson, Sven-Göran Malmgren, Lena Rogström & Emma Sköldberg. Göteborgs universitet.

2009 Larsson, Ida. Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish. Diss. Göteborg.

2009 Larsson, Ida. Becoming Perfect. Observations about Icelandic vera búinn að. Íslenskt mál 30:53–¬92.

2007 Larsson, Ida. Växlingen hava/vara i äldre svenska. In: Anna Saarukka & Lars Wollin (eds.), Studier i svensk språkhistoria 9. Det moderna genombrottet – också en språkfråga? Åbo: Åbo Akademi. Pp. 133–140.

2007 Larsson, Ida. Vad sker när det regnar? Om väderverb och andra händelser i språk. In: Humanistdagboken 20. Göteborgs universitet.

2006 Larsson, Ida. Germanska particip – några iakttagelser. In: Åsa Abelin & Roger Källström (eds.), Från urindoeuropeiska till ndengereko. MISS 56. Göteborgs universitet. Pp. 45–64.

2005 Larsson, Ida. Adjektivändelserna -a och -e från fornsvenska till nysvenska. In: Lars-Olof Delsing & Cecilia Falk (eds.), Studier i svensk språkhistoria 8. Lund: Gleerups. Pp. 167–178.

2004 Larsson, Ida. Språk i förändring. Adjektivändelserna -a och -e från fornsvenska till nysvenska. MISS 49. Göteborgs universitet.

Selected talks

2012 Larsson, Ida. HAVE/BE in the history of Scandinavian – tense, aspect and unaccusatives. Auxiliary selection: Gradience and Gradualness. Freiburg, 21-23 June 2012.

2012 Larsson, Ida & Janne Bondi Johannessen, Embedded Word Order in Heritage Scandinavian. International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Freiburg, 18- 20 April, 2012.

2011 Larsson, Ida. Vem kan få något gjort? Om få + particip i tal och skrift. Svenskans beskrivning 32, Karsltad 13–14 October.

2011 Larsson Ida, Sofia Tingsell, Maia Andréasson, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Jenny Nilsson. Swedish in America – present and past. Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, Norway, September 2011.

2011 Larsson, Ida. On possession, double objects and perfectives. Intended events with mixed result. Workshop on Tense and Aspect, 28 April, Gothenburg.

2010 Larsson, Ida. The semantics of the perfect and the structure of HAVE. Grand Meeting, ScanDiaSyn, 7–10 June 2010, Tromsø.

2009 Larsson, Ida. Perfects and resultatives in the history of the Scandinavian languages. Counterfactuality and auxiliaries in Nordic languages, NORMS workshop, 7–8 December 2009, Trondheim.