Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

Signe Oksefjell Ebeling is a Professor at the University of Oslo's Faculty of Humanities, affiliated with the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. Her research focuses on corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics (particularly English and Norwegian), modern English grammar, learner language analysis, verb semantics, and phraseology. She coordinates the Norwegian component of the International Comparable Corpus (ICC-NO) and participates in projects like VESPA-NO. She serves on editorial boards for Languages in Contrast and the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, and is a member of ICAME's executive board and the Czech National Corpus Advisory Board.

Her research interests include idiomaticity, corpus-based contrastive studies, and the analysis of recurrent word combinations across languages. She has contributed to studies on verb constructions, semantic prosody, and cross-linguistic phraseology, with a focus on English-Norwegian comparisons. Her recent work explores AI-generated translations and cross-linguistic patterns in academic and sports discourse. Ebeling teaches courses on contrastive analysis, corpus linguistics, and English grammar at the University of Oslo.

Her publications span over two decades, with contributions to journals like Languages in Contrast, Nordic Journal of English Studies, and BerGen Language and Linguistics Studies. She collaborates with international researchers and has edited volumes on corpus-based contrastive linguistics and learner corpus research.