Björn Lundquist

Björn Lundquist is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Language and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on syntactic variation, language processing, grammatical gender, dialect variation, and heritage languages. He collaborates with institutions like AcqVA-Aurora and CASTLFish, and leads projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council, including the Nordic Word Order Database.

Education: PhD in Theoretical Linguistics (2008, University of Tromsø), Master's in Nordic Languages (2005, Lund University). He has supervised students such as Maud Westendorp and Eirik Tengesdal. Awards include grants from UiT and the NORMS program.

Key research interests include experimental approaches to syntactic optionality, prosody-syntax interface, and language attrition in heritage speakers. His work spans peer-reviewed journals like Frontiers in Psychology, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, and Glossa. He organizes workshops on topics like bidialectism and language variation.

Lundquist is involved in projects like Multilectal Literacy in Education and Grammatical Gender in Norwegian Dialects. His lab work includes eye-tracking and ERP studies to explore language comprehension and production.