Professor of Swedish
While basically a syntactician, I tend to concern myself with the interplay between what is often treated as separate parts of the language, such as grammar and lexicon, or syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In recent years, I have mostly pursued such issues from the view-point of Construction Grammar. Nevertheless, I still consider myself a pluralist, or perhaps a seeker, in terms of theoretic affiliation. I also have some experience with usage guides, both from studying them (a better research topic than you might think!) and from co-writing one.
My usual object of study is Swedish, including some work on American Swedish and Finland Swedish. However, while I typically approach theoretical issues in the light of Swedish data, the overall purpose is of course to contribute to our understanding of language in general.
Publications in English
- In press (ed. with Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara & Tiago Torrent): Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Forthcoming: "Introduction: constructicons and constructicography." In B. Lyngfelt, L. Borin, K. H. Ohara & T. T. Torrent (eds.), Constructicography.
- Forthcoming (with Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Anna Ehrlemark & Rudolf Rydstedt): "Constructicography at work: Theory meets practice in the Swedish Constructicon." In B. Lyngfelt, L. Borin, K. H. Ohara & T. T. Torrent (eds.), Constructicography.
- Forthcoming (with Tiago Torrent, Adrieli Laviola, Linnéa Bäckström, Anna Helga Hannesdóttir & Ely Matos): "Aligning constructicons across languages: A trilingual comparison between English, Swedish, and Brazilian Portuguese." In B. Lyngfelt, L. Borin, K. H. Ohara & T. T. Torrent (eds.), Constructicography.
- 2016 (with Anna Ehrlemark & Richard Johansson): "Retrieving Occurrences of Grammatical Constructions." Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016).
- 2016 (with Lisa Loenheim, Joel Olofsson, Julia Prentice & Sofia Tingsell): "Constructicography meets (second) language education. On constructions in teaching aids and the usefulness of a Swedish constructicon." In S. de Knop & G. Gilquin (eds.), Constructionist Approaches to Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, pp. 327–355. De Gruyter Mouton.
- 2015 (with Normunds Gruzitis, Dana Dannélls & Aarne Ranta): "Formalising the Swedish Constructicon in Grammatical Framework." Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop, pp 49–56. Beijing, China.
- 2014 (with Linnéa Bäckström & Emma Sköldberg): "Towards Interlingual Constructicography. On correspondence between constructicon resources for English and Swedish." In L. Borin, G. de Melo, K. Friberg Heppin and T. T. Torrent (eds.), Frames, constructions and computation. Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:1, 9–32.
- 2014 (with Markus Forsberg, Richard Johansson, Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Joel Olofsson & Julia Prentice). "From construction candidates to constructicon entries. An experiment using semi-automatic methods for identifying constructions in corpora." In L. Borin, G. de Melo, K. Friberg Heppin and T. T. Torrent (eds.), Frames, constructions and computation. Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:1, 114-135.
- 2014 (ed. with Camilla Wide). Special issue on Swedish constructions. Constructions, vol. 1.
- 2014 (with Camilla Wide). Introduction: Constructionist approaches to Swedish. In Lyngfelt & Wide (eds.).
- 2013 (with Lars Borin & Markus Forsberg): "Close encounters of the fifth kind: Some linguistic and computational aspects of the Swedish FrameNet++ project." Veredas 17(1):28-43.
- 2013: "Review of The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar ed. by Thomas Hoffmann & Graeme Trousdale." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 36(3): 381-387.
- 2013 (with Emma Sköldberg, Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Sofia Tingsell & Jonatan Uppström): Between Grammars and Dictionaries: a Swedish Constructicon. Proceedings of eLex 2013, pp. 310-327. Tallinn, Estonia
- 2013 (with Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice & Emma Sköldberg): "Automatic identification of construction candidates for a Swedish constructicon." Proceedings of the workshop on lexical semantic resources for NLP at NODALIDA 2013, May 22-24, 2013, Oslo, Norway, pp. 2-12. NEALT Proceedings Series 19
- 2012: "Re-thinking FNI. On null instantiation and control in Construction Grammar." Constructions and Frames 4(1): 1-23.
- 2012 (with Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Emma Sköldberg & Sofia Tingsell): "Adding a Constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Språkbanken" Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (LexSem 2012 workshop), pp. 452-461. Vienna, September 2012.
- 2012 (with Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Emma Sköldberg & Sofia Tingsell): "Growing a Swedish constructicon in lexical soil" Proceedings of SLTC 2012. (The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference), pp. 10-11. Lund, October 2012.
- 2009: ”Control phenomena.” In: Handbook of Pragmatics 13, ed. by Jan-Ola Östman och Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Also published in: Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, ed. by Frank Brisard, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 5.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 33-49. Will also appear in Handbook of Pragmatics Online.
- 2009: ”Towards a comprehensive Construction Grammar account of Control. A case study of Swedish infinitives.” Constructions and Frames 1(2): 153-189.
- 2006 (ed. with Torgrim Solstad): Demoting the Agent. Passive, middle, and other voice-related phenomena. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- 2006 (with Torgrim Solstad): ”Perspectives on demotion. Introduction to the volume.” In: Lyngelt & Solstad (eds.), pp. 1-20.
- 2001: ”C-command vs. logophoric control. Interpretive OT applied to Swedish adverbial infinitives.” In: Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, vol. 2, ed. by Arthur Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson & Åke Viberg. (Traveaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund 39:2.), Pp. 53-68.
- 2000: OT Semantics and Control. (ROA 411.) Rutgers Optimality Archive.
- 1999: ”Optimal Control. An OT perspective on the interpretation of PRO in Swedish.” Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 63: 75-104.
Swedish bibliography
