Helge Lødrup

I am a professor of general linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies,  University of Oslo. My field of research is the syntax of Norwegian and related languages within generative grammar, especially Lexical Functional Grammar.

For some time, I have been working on the syntax of possessive expressions, reflexives, and body part nouns, as can be seen from the list below. I have also published on surface anaphora, clausal complementation, passive and impersonal sentences, and auxiliaries and light verbs.

Contact information:

Address: University of Oslo

Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies,

Po.Box 1102 Blindern, NO-0317 Oslo, NORWAY

Office: Henrik Wergeland Building, room 617

Phone: +47 22 85 48 31

E-mail: helge.lodrup ÆT ilf.uio.no

My departmental web page

My motto:

"I hope that everything is perfectly clear, but if it is too clear, you can call me, and I will try to make it more obscure."

(Salvador Dalí, 1967)

Some manuscripts and publications:

· Split possession and the syntax of kinship nouns in Norwegian. Manuscript. Download PDF-file.

· With Marianne Hobæk Haff: Another overt surface anaphor: Norwegian 'and that'. Forthcoming in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

· Forholdet mellom prenominale og postnominale possessive uttrykk. In Hans-Olav Enger, Jan Terje Faarlund and Kjell Ivar Vannebo (eds.) Grammatikk, bruk og norm, 189-203. Oslo: Novus 2012.

· Some Norwegian 'type anaphora' are surface anaphora. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 24, 1, 2012, 23–52.

· Norwegian possessive pronouns: Phrases, words or suffixes? In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.) Proceedings of the LFG11 Conference, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 339-359. Download PDF-file.

· Hvor mange genus er det i Oslo-dialekten? In Maal og Minne 2 2011, 120-36.

· Lexical Functional Grammar: Functional Structure. In Robert D. Borsley and Kersti Börjars (eds.) Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar. Wiley-Blackwell 2011. Pp. 141 - 180.

· Implicit possessives and reflexive binding in Norwegian. Transactions of the Philological Society 108, 2, 2010, 89-109.

· External and internal possessors with body part nouns: The case of Norwegian. SKY Journal of Linguistics 22, 2009, 221─250. Download PDF-file.

· Looking Possessor Raising in the mouth: Norwegian Possessor Raising with unergatives. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.) Proceedings of the LFG09 Conference, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Pp. 420-40. Download PDF-file.

· Animacy and long distance binding in Norwegian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 32, 1, 2009, Pp. 111-136.

· Objects binding reflexives in Norwegian. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 26, 2 2008, Pp. 30-54.

· Local binding without co-argumenthood: Norwegian noun phrases. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.) Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference. CSLI Publications 2008. Pp. 333-351. Download PDF-file.

· The diversity and unity of the accusative with infinitive construction: A Norwegian perspective. Linguistics 46, 5 2008, 891–916.

· Raising to object in Norwegian and the derived object constraint. Studia Linguistica 62, 2, 2008, Pp. 155-181.

· A new account of simple and complex reflexives. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 10, 3 2007, Pp. 183-201. Download PDF-file. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

· Norwegian anaphors without visible binders. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.1 2007, Pp. 1-22.

Some older stuff - including some downloadable papers - can be found here.

Look me up in the Cristin research database here.

Please mail me if you want me to send you anything I have written: helge.lodrup ÆT ilf.uio.no