Atle Grønn

Professor Atle Grønn holds a position at the University of Oslo's Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, within the Faculty of Humanities. His expertise spans Russian and Ukrainian linguistics, formal semantics, pragmatics, contrastive linguistics, and corpus linguistics, with a notable focus on the history of the Soviet chess school. He is actively involved in research projects such as Oslo Studies in Language (as editor-in-chief) and the RuN corpus-based initiative.

Grønn’s research emphasizes TAM (tense, aspect, mood) categories, particularly in Slavic languages. Recent work includes studies on relative tense shifts in Russian, non-complement clauses in English and Ukrainian, and tense dynamics in Slavic languages. His publications also intersect with chess historiography, including books like Sjakk eller livet (2016) and Sjakken som var (2023, translated as Games and Goals in 2024).

He has contributed to academic journals such as Theoretical Linguistics, Scando-Slavica, and Language and Linguistics Compass. His collaborative projects with Arnim von Stechow explore tense theories in Russian and cross-linguistic syntax-semantics interfaces. Grønn’s work bridges formal linguistic analysis with cultural-historical studies, particularly in the context of chess and language evolution.