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GARD BUEN JENSET

Position: Graduate school research fellow ("stipendiat"), since October 2006.
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen (UiB).
I'm attached to the UiB Research School in Linguistuics and Philology,and a member of the UiB Research Group on Grammatical Change and Development.

Working title of my PhD project: "Cognitive aspects of existential there."
Dissertation director: Professor Leiv Egil Breivik.
Project outline: The aim of my PhD project is to carry out an empirical study of the evolution of the so-called
existential there in English, in light of cognitive construction grammar.

                 

E-mail: "Gard.Jenset" ["at"] "if.uib.no"
Phone: +47 (555) 82 375
Office: HF Bygget / humanities building, room 234

CV:
2006 - Grad. school research fellow, University of Bergen.
2005-2006: English teacher, Berlitz (Waw1), Warsaw, Poland.
 2003-2005: Master's degree in English linguistics, University of Bergen, with a thesis on there in Chaucer's language.
2002-2003: National service, Royal Norwegian Navy.
2001-2002: Exchange student, Luther College, Iowa, USA.
1999-2001: Associate degree (Norwegian høgskolekandidat), computer science, Telemark University College, Norway.
1996-2000: Bachelor's degree (Norwegian Cand.Mag.), with majors in English and history, Telemark University College.

       

Teaching, UiB: Fall 2007: ENG 301, the obligatory introdcution to linguistic theory and method for postgraduate students in English linguistics.

            

Links:
Why take a degree in linguistics?
An overview of linguistic sub-disciplines

Writings:

  "That ther lakke no word... - A cognitive study of existential there in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer."
Electronically published master's thesis, English Department, University of Bergen.