i live in tromsø, where i work at the world's northernmost university. my job here is in part to do research in linguistics > generative grammar > morphology and phonology. the other part of my job is to be the director of a research center where we study variation in language. the center is called the center for advanced study in theoretical linguistics, or castl for short. learn more about castl by following the first link at the top of this page. what you can't find there, you might find with the other links. follow them and have a look!

next:

•i'll speak on the status of research in norway at the 50th anniversary of uhr, oslo, november 13.

•michal starke and i will present 'beyond open access' at drivkrefter i vitenskapelig publisering, tromsø, november 14.

news:

î'm speaking at ocp5 on my recent work on metrical structure, toulouse, january 24-26.

•i'll address old and new directors of centres of excellence on 'forutsetninger for å lykkes', oslo, january 17.

•i'll address a delegation from riga on castl and the norwegian centre of excellence scheme, tromsø, november 27.

•michal starke and i will present 'beyond open access' at drivkrefter i vitenskapelig publisering, tromsø, november 14.

•i'll speak on the status of research in norway at the 50th anniversary of uhr, oslo, november 13.

•i'll address the university leadership on "castl's graduate school: progress and plans", tromsø, october 15.

•morgenbladet published my comment on the uit + hitø fusion, october 12, 2007.

•i'll spoke at another nordforsk network seminar on network building, oslo, october 10.

*i presented the task force on research's results on the fusion of uit and hitø at an open meeting, september 25.

•a suggestion for improving the organization of postdocs in norway appears in forskerforum, 4/2007.

•morgenbladet wonders if the university of oslo is an 'eliteuniversitet'. my answer, pub. 188:9, 2-8.3.07, p. 19.

•my gaps article is in the current journal of linguistics!

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articles:

•under revision. prosodic v2 in northern norwegian (w/ peter svenonius). j. comp. germ. linguistics.

•2007. gaps and repairs at the phonology-morphology interface. journal of linguistics 43.1.

•2007 (in press). the roles of gen & con in modeling ternary rhythm. in freedom of analysis?  in sylvia blaho, patrik bye, and martin krämer (eds.). berlin: mouton de gruyter.

•2006. paradigms in phonological theory, downing, hall and raffelsiefen (eds.), review article. language 82.4.

•2006. nothing is a phonological fact: gaps and repairs at the phonology-morphology interface, nels 36. [slides]

•2006. optimizing gender, lingua 116:1394-1417.

•2006. norwegian stress and quantity: implications of loanwords, lingua 116: 1171-1194.

•2005. optimal gaps in optimal paradigms, catalan journal of linguistics 4:155-170.

•2005. optimizing russian gender: a preliminary analysis. in formal approaches to slavic linguistics 13: the south carolina meeting, pp. 265-275, ed. steven franks, frank y. gladney and mila tasseva-kurktchieva. ann arbor, mi: michigan slavic publications.

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other scribblings:

•2006. the convergence of the unmarked. w/ d. steinmetz. amsterdam gender colloquium, september 15-16.

•2006. what is and what should never be: ungrammaticality in g and ug. naphc4 keynote. [slides]

•2006. the syllable in optimality theory, by c. féry and r. van de vijver (eds.), book notice language 82.4.

•2006. word: a cross-linguistic typology, by r.m.w. dixon & a.y. aikhenvald (eds). book notice. language 82.4.

•2006. introduction, lingua 116.9. (with hans-olav enger and tore nesset).

•2005. development in prosodic systems, p. fikkert & h. jacobs (eds.). book notice. language 81.2, 522-23.

•2005. (3+2)+3 er ikke lik 3+(2+3): jakten på forskerutdanning i verdensklasse, forskerforum 8/2005.

•2005. språkstriden i skolen, nordlys, november 15.

•2005. to open the new exhibit about language at tromsø museum, i held this speech, november 14.

•2005. introduction, nordic journal of linguistics (with øystein alexander vangsnes). 28.2:149-152.

•2005. the text of my freedom of analysis workshop talk, tromsø, september 1-2. [abstract]

•2005. the handout from my mfm13 talk, nothing is a phonological fact, manchester, may 26-28.