Kari Kinn

Kari Kinn is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Bergen's Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, specializing in syntactic variation in heritage Scandinavian languages.

Her research examines morphosyntactic phenomena in Norwegian heritage languages (particularly North American contexts), including possession structures, argument placement, pronominal systems, and language contact effects. Key methodologies include corpus analysis, experimental tasks, and comparative linguistics.

Recent publications analyze determiner phrase structures in North American Norwegian, V2 word order in Latin American contexts, and historical aspects of Norn. Her work demonstrates consistent focus on language change in diasporic communities and syntactic interfaces between heritage and homeland varieties.

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