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Kaja Borthen is a Professor at the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU. Her research focuses on the intersection of pragmatics and semantics, particularly non-truth-conditional aspects of linguistic meaning. She investigates how pragmatic principles interact with encoded meaning to shape utterance interpretation in context, with specializations in referring expressions, implicatures, and pragmatic particles.
- Research Projects:
- NOT Project (2014-2017): Analyzed Norwegian pragmatic tags
- Cross-linguistic Nominal Forms Study (2007-2009)
- BREDT Project (2003-2006): Focused on anaphor resolution
- PhD Work (1999-2003): Examined Norwegian bare singulars
Her recent work explores phenomena like pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian and regional variation in pragmatic particles. She has contributed to foundational discussions on referential semantics and discourse coherence, integrating insights from relevance theory and cognitive linguistics. Teaching responsibilities include advanced courses in linguistic theory and research methodologies.
Publications span journals like Glossa, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, and Journal of Pragmatics, reflecting her commitment to bridging theoretical linguistics with empirical discourse analysis.
