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Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oslo (UiO), affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities. Her PhD focuses on grammatical description of Patani, an Austronesian language in Indonesia, emphasizing clausal organization and fieldwork-based documentation. She is part of the research project Where does grammar come from? The cognitive basis of transitivity and grammatical relations.
Education: M.A. in Linguistics (UiO, 2017; thesis on grammatical gender in American Norwegian), B.A. in Linguistics (UiO, 2014). She coordinates fieldwork for the LIA Project at UiO's Text Laboratory and has taught Norwegian as a second language.
Research interests include Austronesian languages, syntactic typology, and sociolinguistic variation. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with empirical documentation, particularly addressing endangered language preservation.
