First, second/third, and bilingual language acquisition, syntactic variation, heritage languages, language attrition, diachronic change, com­parative syntax, word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian (especially North Norwegian dialects), Russian, German

Personal website: https://site.uit.no/maritwestergaard/

grammar checking, valency, RBMT (rule-based machine translation), dependencies, morpho-syntactic disambiguation, semantics, fun languages with many cases

Russian language, Construction Grammar and constructicography, the semantics of grammatical constructions, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, construction-based approach to L2 teaching, language pedagogy

My research focuses on early and late bi/multilingualism, with a particular interest in Spanish in contact with other languages. The main questions I aim to investigate qre 1) which areas of language are susceptible to change in bi/multilingual populations? 2) How can two or more languages influence each other in the bi/multilingual mind and society? and 3) How do the quantity and quality of the input determine language development and outcomes in bilinguals?

contemporary art, photography, women artists, Arctic, circumpolar North, Nordic contemporary Art, storytelling, research-based art, Anthropocene, feminist art history, decolonial art history, monuments, provenance research