General linguistics
General Linguistics is the theoretical study of linguistic communication and the structure of languages.
General linguistics is the theoretical study of linguistic communication and the structure of human languages. Languages are explored both as mental and social phenomena. Important questions are how people acquire languages and how languages develop in a longer historical perspective. General linguistics is primarily concerned with what is common to human languages and with general questions about how languages should be analysed and described. It thus complements specialised language subjects, which focus on individual languages or groups of related languages.
At Uppsala University, there are two profile research areas in the general linguistics section. One profile area is concerned with naturalistic and experimental studies of child and adult (second) language learners in a variety of languages, concerning the lexicon, morpho-syntax and discourse pragmatics, typically in close collaboration with scholars abroad, and with colleagues in the Scandinavian languages department. Such empirical work constitutes basic research for previously unresearched language combinations, including children at risk for language impairment, but also serves to assess and develop theories of grammar, language processing, narrative, and language acquisition theory.
The other profile area is language documentation, typology and (largely quantitative) research on patterns of distribution and change of languages and linguistic structures. The focus here is on some previously undescribed and endangered languages of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa, Papua New Guinea and South Asia. This documentation work also feeds into our research on language contact and language change, dialect/language variation and typologically oriented studies, including large-scale statistically based investigations, also allowing us to participate actively in large international collaborations.
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Group members
Bohnacker, Ute, professor
Daravigka, Konstantina, PhD student
Dunn, Michael, professor
Edenmyr, Niklas, lecturer
Elgh, Erik, PhD student
Haddad, Rima, visiting researcher
Hammarström, Harald, professor
Huisman, John, researcher
Jordan, Caspar, PhD student
Lindgren, Freja, PhD student
McLean, Bonnie, PhD student
Nielsen, Johan Ulrik, PhD student
Persson, Rasmus, associate senior lecturer
Rönchen, Philipp, PhD student
Saxena, Anju, professor
Tresoldi, Tiago, researcher
Viberg, Åke, professor emeritus
Wehbe, Pascale, PhD student
Öberg, Linnéa, visiting researcher
Publications
Part of Children, 2024
Learning and unlearning Verb second word order
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax and Semantics, p. 355-367, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
Part of Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2023
Hur kan flerspråkiga barn utveckla en aktiv flerspråkighet?
2023
Orientation and motion in the world’s languages: From field studies to cross-linguistic comparison
2023
Strong and Weak in the History of the Gutnish Verb System
Part of Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv, p. 7-52, 2023
Part of International Journal of the Sociology of Language, p. 77-111, 2023
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The Arabic Dialect of Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba/Shaykh Taba (northern Lebanon) in its Regional context
2023
The Sidi group in India: Linguistic evidence of Bantu origin
Part of Habari, p. 15-18, 2023
Part of Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA), 2023
Part of Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA), 2023
Part of Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA), 2023
Child bilingualism in Sweden and Lebanon: A study of Arabic-speaking 4-to-7-year-olds
2022
Children's acquisition of referentiality in narratives
Sage Publications, 2022
Clues to Kanashi prehistory 1: Loanword adaptation in nouns and adjectives
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 173-214, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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Clues to Kanashi prehistory 2: Loanword adaptation in verbs
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 215-234, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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Cutchi and Gujarati Languages in Eastern Africa
Part of Indian Languages in the Diaspora, Orient Blackswan, 2022
Fever in Interaction: Body, Knowledge, and Legitimacy in Swedish Primary Care Consultations
2022
Part of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, p. 479-508, 2022
Introduction: Kanashi, its speakers, its linguistic and extralinguistic context
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 3-11, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
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It is not the ideology but the resources: family language policy in a comparative perspective
Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
It is not the ideology but the resources: family language policy in a comparative perspective
Part of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, p. 817-820, 2022
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Kanashi and West Himalayish: Genealogy, language contact, prehistoric migrations
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 237-254, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
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Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 257-315, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
2022
Linguistic variation: A challenge for describing the phonology of Kanashi
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 131-144, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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Marduk Saves the Dead in his Palms: Syntax Analysis of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi I 9–12
Part of Archiv für Orientforschung, p. 97-103, 2022
Part of Languages, 2022
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RI-ma-ŠU/RI-ma-a-MU in Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi I, line 19
Part of Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves Utilitaires, p. 47-49, 2022
Part of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, p. 413-445, 2022
Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
Walter de Gruyter, 2022
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2022
The linguistic landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur
Brill Academic Publishers, 2022
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Turkish heritage families in Sweden: language practices and family language policy
Part of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, p. 1-13, 2022
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Turkish Mother Tongue Instruction in Sweden
Part of Dilbilim Dergisi / The Journal of Linguistics, p. 1-20, 2022
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Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset
Part of Journal of Uralic Linguistics, p. 4-42, 2022
A new perspective on referentiality in elicited narratives: Introduction to the Special Issue
Part of First language, p. 171-190, 2021
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Part of Journal of Home Language Research, p. 1-18, 2021
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MAIN story comprehension: What can we expect of a typically developing child?
Part of Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings, p. 13-46, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
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Swedish FrameNet++ and comparative linguistics
Part of The Swedish FrameNet++, p. 139-166, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
Why is smell special?: A case study of a European language: Swedish.
Part of The Linguistics of Olfaction, p. 35-72, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
A bird’s-eye view on South Asian languages through LSI
Part of Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, p. 203-237, 2020
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Part of Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, p. 93-113, 2020
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Bilingual development of Turkish-speaking children in Sweden
Part of Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online, Mouton de Gruyter, 2020
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Part of Developing Narrative Comprehension, p. 99-148, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020
Comparing spatial deixis in Uto-Aztecan
Part of Lenguas yutoaztecas: historia, estructuras y contacto lingüístico, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020
Contrasting semantic fields across lnguages
Part of New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics. Empirical and Methodological Challenges, p. 265-312, De Gruyter Mouton, 2020
Cross-linguistic development of narrative comprehension from A to Z
Part of Developing Narrative Comprehension, p. 1-30, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020
Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020
Part of Developing narrative comprehension, p. 61-98, 2020
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