Tore Nesset
Job description
Meritorious teacher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Leader of the research group CLEAR – Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian
Member of the university board 2017-2021
Tore Nesset
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50 years of Russian studies in Tromsø
Poljarnyj vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies 26. November 2025 DOI
Tore Nesset
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Motion Verbs and Secondary Predications: What Corpus Data Can Tell the Classroom Practitioner
Tore Nesset,
Laura Alexis Janda
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Contextually determined or semantically distinct? The
competition between instrumental, long form nominative
and short form nominative in Russian predicate adjectives
Tore Nesset,
Anastasia Makarova
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Threatening in Russian with or without sja: Grozit′ vs. grozit′sja
Journal of Slavic Linguistics 2024 ARKIV
Tore Nesset,
Martina Björklund,
Svetlana Sokolova
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Shortening mechanisms in construction morphology: the Russian spec-N construction
Tore Nesset,
Laura Alexis Janda
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The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula
Tore Nesset,
Kevin Xavier
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From machine learning to classroom learning: mobile vowels and the Russian preposition v ‘in(to)’
Tore Nesset,
Anastasia Makarova
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“Threat” in Russian–A Linguistic Perspective
Tore Nesset
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Min russiske reise: et (digitalt) begynnerkurs i russisk
21. November 2025
Tore Nesset
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A preliminary report on the linguistics of foreign agents
18. November 2025
Tore Nesset,
Yuliia Palii
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The relationship between Ukrainian and Russian while working on the first Ukrainian grammar in Norway
06. November 2025
Laura Alexis Janda,
Tore Nesset,
Yuliia Palii,
Reza Soltani
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Stable Language Variation in the Age of AI
22. October 2025
Tore Nesset,
Yuliia Palii
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Ukrainian Indefinite Pronouns and Language Typology
11. October 2025
Tore Nesset
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Å forstå Russland frå innsida
Dag og Tid 10. October 2025
Tore Nesset
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Er du sikker?
30. September 2025 DOI
Tore Nesset,
Yuliia Palii
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Ukrainske ubestemte pronomen og adverb i et slavisk og typologisk perspektiv
10. June 2025
Tore Nesset
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Er du sikker på hva "sikker" betyr?
24. September 2025
Tore Nesset,
Hans-Olav Enger,
Toril Opsahl,
Laura Alexis Janda
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Konkurrerende kongruenskonstruksjoner
15. September 2025
Laura Alexis Janda,
Tore Nesset
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Russland: ord om krig og krig om ord
Tore Nesset
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Metafor, metonymi og konstruksjoner med norske sammensetninger
2025
Knut Ørke,
Eva Christina Makaria Lentz,
Lene Antonsen,
Morten Auklend,
Berit Anne Johansdatter Bals Baal,
Anna Endresen
et al.:
Teaching Exchange: En Arena for Utveksling, Innovasjon og Støtte ved Institutt for Språk og Kultur (ISK)
2025
Tore Nesset
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Fears and threats: Russian reflexive verbs and second language learning
2025
Kari Aga Myklebost,
Tore Nesset
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Presidentvalg i Russland.
17. March 2024 FULLTEKST
Kari Aga Myklebost,
Tore Nesset
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Valget i Russland - hva handler det om?
2024
Tore Nesset
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Presidentvalg i Russland. Innslag på "Helgemorgen" i NRK.
17. March 2024 FULLTEKST
Tore Nesset
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The CLEAR group: Cognitive linguistics projects in the past, present and future
2024
Tore Nesset
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Attraction and Prediction: Two corpus studies from Russian
2024
Tore Nesset,
Kari Aga Myklebost
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Hvorfor holder han valg i det hele tatt?
04. March 2024
Tore Nesset
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Ein ekte russisk patriot
Dag og Tid 15. November 2024 ARKIV
Kari Aga Myklebost,
Tore Nesset
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Valget i Russland - hva handler det om?
2024
Tore Nesset
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Betyr "sikkerhet" det samme på alle språk?
2024
Tore Nesset
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Kremls to forteljingar
08. March 2024
Tore Nesset,
Yuliia Palii
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Ukrainian indefinite pronouns between Russian and Polish
2024
Tore Nesset,
Kari Aga Myklebost,
Elisabet Aaraas
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Hvorfor arrangerer Putin presidentvalg?
28. February 2024 FULLTEKST
Tore Nesset,
Kari Aga Myklebost
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Hvorfor gjennomfører Putin presidentvalg?
25. February 2024 FULLTEKST
Tore Nesset
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Før valget i Russland
2024
Tore Nesset
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Peer review - how to deal with it
2024
Tore Nesset
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Attraction: Prefixes, prepositions, and Russian verbs of motion
2024
Tore Nesset
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Den utforskende russiskeleven: En «grammatikkonkels» bekjennelser
2024
Tore Nesset
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Russisk i Tromsø i femti år – hva nå?
Tore Nesset,
Kjetil Rydland
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– Eit arktisk universitet må kunne russisk
29. November 2024 FULLTEKST
Tore Nesset
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CLEAR-gruppen: en kort presentasjon
2024
Tore Nesset,
Erik Haakon Egeberg
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Russisk i Tromsø i 50 år: Et kort tilbakeblikk i 2024
2024
Robert Reynolds,
Tore Nesset,
Laura Alexis Janda
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RuMOR: connecting insights from a learner corpus to an intelligent language tutoring system
2024
Tore Nesset,
Zoia Butenko
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Goal orientation: Russian motion verb constructions in the classroom
2024
Tore Nesset
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Samarbeid med Russland i en vanskelig tid
2023
Tore Nesset,
Laura Alexis Janda
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Corpus investigation of Russian numerals
2023
Tore Nesset,
Svetlana Sokolova,
Martina Björklund
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Specprezentacija – A cognitive approach to the morphological construction spec-N in Russian
2023
Tore Nesset
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Russland handlar rasjonelt
Dag og Tid 17. February 2023 ARKIV
Tore Nesset,
Valentina Zhukova,
Anastasia Makarova
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The linguistics of threats: a cognitive approach to political discourse
2023
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Research interests
My central research interest is Russian language. In my research, I apply the theoretical concepts of Cogntive Linguistics to data from Russian. In particular, I am interested in quantitative analysis of corpus data. I am also interested in historical linguistics, and I am the author of the textbook How Russian Came to Be the Way It Is (Slavica Publishers 2015).
In recent years, I have also been interested in Ukrainian language.
Teaching
In 2018 I became a “meritorious teacher” at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Find out more about me as a teacher by visiting my pedagogical portfolio! My portfolio can also be accessed here.
Member of research group
Member of project
CV
Education
- Doctor artium (PhD), University of Oslo, 1997
- Cand.philol., University of Oslo (Specialization: Russian Linguistics), 1992
- Cand.mag., University of Oslo (German, general linguistics, Russian), 1989
- Norwegian Defense School of Intelligence and Security, 1987
Employment
2004 – present: Professor of Russian linguistics at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2008 – Visiting professor (“professor II”), University of Bergen
1997–2004: Associate professor of Russian linguistics, University of Tromsø
1993 – 1996: Reserch fellow, University of Oslo
1992: Teaching associate, University of Oslo
Appointments
- 2019 – present: Research group leader of CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian)
- 2010 – 2019: Deputy research group leader of CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian)
- 2011 – 2012: Group leader and researcher at the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo
- 2003 – 2011: Affiliate, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), University of Tromsø
Administrative experience
- Member of universitetsstyret (university board of trustees) of UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2017–2021
- Member of fakultetsstyret (faculty board)
Membership in academies
- Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
Editorical boards
- Editor of Poljarnyj Vestnik
- Associate editor of Scando-Slavica
- Member of editorial board of Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, Slavica Bergensia, and Zeitschrift für Slawistik
Research stays at other universities
- 2022 – 2023: Princeton University
- 2017 – 2018: Princeton University
- 2012 – 2013: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 2006 – 2007: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 2001: University of California at San Diego
- 1995: Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, UK
Invited lectures
- Harvard University
- Princeton University
- Brown University
- Moscow State University
- HSE University (Moscow)
- Petrozavodsk State University
- Institute for linguistic research of the Russian Academy Science (St. Petersburg)
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Scuola Normale e Superiore (Pisa, Italy)
- Uppsala University
- University of Oslo
- University of Bergen
- University of Stavanger