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New Voices in Linguistics
Editor: Eva Thue Vold, Gunn Inger Lyse and Anje Müller Gjesdal
Date Of Publication: Jul 2006
Isbn13: 9781847180148
Isbn: 1-84718-014-0
New Voices in Linguistics presents a selection of some of the ongoing, and quite diversified, work among a new generation of researchers in linguistics. The material has been selected from presentations given at the First Scandinavian Ph.D. Conference in Linguistics and Philology, which was organized in Bergen (Norway) in June 2005. The first part of the book comprises papers which focus on theoretical aspects of linguistics, or which offer theory-driven explanations of empirical linguistic observations. Section two is directed towards empirically-based or descriptive analyses of linguistic phenomena, either using corpus evidence to test claims about language, or describing linguistic phenomena.

New voices in linguistics is perhaps best described as a demonstration of the breadth in current linguistic research, from the point of view of theoretical frameworks, methods employed and the number of languages under investigation. The research projects span from historical studies of language development, through studies of grammatical and sociolinguistic aspects, to computational studies of language. Despite this diversity, the papers are similar in that they all represent the new generation of linguistic researchers, and many of them question traditional assumptions. This book is unique in that it gathers so many promising new voices in linguistics in one single publication, and may be of interest to any linguist wanting to keep updated on new developments and ongoing projects in the fields of linguistics and language studies. The book offers a rare opportunity to get a glimpse of current, ongoing research projects and thus an excellent opportunity to be ‘ahead of the curve’. It is of particular interest to those working with Scandinavian languages, since a large number of the papers deal with those languages, either alone or in a comparative perspective.

Eva Thue Vold is a research fellow at the Department of Romance studies, University of Bergen, Norway and she is affiliated to the Norwegian PhD Research School in Linguistics and Philology. Her current research interests include academic discourse, epistemic modality, evidentiality and corpus linguistics. Since 2003, she has been associated to the KIAP-project, which investigates academic discourse across disciplines and languages.

Gunn Inger Lyse is a research fellow in Computational Linguistics at the University of Bergen, and is affiliated to the Norwegian PhD Research School in Linguistics and Philology. Her current research is pursued in the context of the LOGON project, a Norwegian National initiative towards re-usable language technology for Norwegian–English Machine Translation (MT). Her research interests comprise lexical semantics (data-driven modeling), word sense disambiguation (WSD), and machine learning.

Anje Müller Gjesdal is a research fellow in French linguistics at the Department of Romance studies at the University of Bergen, and is affiliated to the Norwegian PhD Research School in Linguistics and Philology. She is currently working on pronominal semantics, other research interests include semantics, pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Gjesdal is also affiliated to the KIAP-project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose).

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