child language acquisition; heritage speaker bilingualism; acquisition of morphosyntax and prosody; roles and weights of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in development/processing/ultimate attainment; variation across bi/multilinguals

• Sámi language technology: Morphological and syntactic parsing and disambiguation with grammatical methods (finite state automata, control grammar, machine translation)
• Sámi grammar: Sami syntax and morphology
• Other research fields: Language planning, written language, circumpolar languages

Grammar, syntax, morphology, syntactic variation, North Germanic languages and dialects, language variation, multilingualism, bidialectalism, language acquisition, cognitive development, language attitudes

Kven literature

Minority literature

Representations of Ethnicity in fiction

The literature of Kvens and Meänkieli speakers in Northern Fenno-Scandia, representations of Kvens in Norwegian fiction and the literature of Nordic ethnic minorities generally.

Psycho- and neurolinguistics; language acquisition and the mental representation of language; sentence processing; L1 and L2 variation; multilingualism, multilectalism and their extra-linguistic cognitive effects; Scandinavian languages and dialects.

Information policy, public library policy, cultural policy; community resilience; social capital; wefare state institutions; immigration; historical institutional theory, political economy