Ida Larsson

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My research is concerned with historical linguistics, comparative Scandinavian syntax, and heritage linguistics. My dissertation (Gothenburg 2009) is about the development of the perfect tense in the history of Swedish. I had a postdoc position at the Textlaboratory, University of Oslo, in 2011, and, after that, I was a researcher at the Department of Swedish and multilingualism, University of Stockholm. Between 2014 and 2020, I was a professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo.

Since 2011, I have been involved in projects about American Swedish and Norwegian. I am currently a member of the projectgroup for the project Norwegian across the Americas, led by Kari Kinn (UiB).

Since December 2015, I lead the project Variation and change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase funded by the Research council of Norway. As part of the project, we have developed the Nordic Word Order Database (NWD).

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Larsson, Ida & Brandner, Ellen (2022). Tense recursion, perfect doubling, and the grammaticalization of auxiliaries. In Egedi, Barbara & Hegedüs, Veronika (Ed.), Functional Heads across Time. Syntactic Reanalysis and Change. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198871538. p. 159–185.
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Björn (2022). Argument placement in Swedish. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 7(1), p. 73–107. doi: 10.5617/nals.10101. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2022). Argument placement in Icelandic. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 7(1), p. 1–30. doi: 10.5617/nals.10098. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida & Tengesdal, Eirik (2022). Argument placement in Danish. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 7(1), p. 109–134. doi: 10.5617/nals.10102. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This paper gives an overview of the Danish data on argument placement in the Nordic Word Order Database (NWD, Lundquist et al. 2019). The data were collected from 28 speakers in Copenhagen and Fredriksværk in 2018. The experimental task elicited subject and object placement relative to adverbs and particles (i.e., subject shift, object shift and particle shift), as well as subject placement relative to objects (long object shift). The results confirm that there is considerably less variability in argument placement in Danish than in the other North Germanic languages.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2022). Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedish. Languages. ISSN 2226-471X. 7(4). doi: 10.3390/languages7040256. Full text in Research Archive
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida (2022). Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0332-5865. 45(3), p. 281–309. doi: 10.1017/S0332586521000305. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2022). The development of Swedish particle placement. In Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (Ed.), Morphosyntactic Change in Late Modern Swedish. Language Science Press. ISSN 9783961103256. p. 145–194. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5482405.
Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2022). Introduction: Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish. In Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (Ed.), Morphosyntactic Change in Late Modern Swedish. Language Science Press. ISSN 9783961103256. p. 1–52. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5792951.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2021). Argumentplacering i norskt arvspråk i Amerika. In Hagen, Kristin; Kristoffersen, Gjert; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander & Åfarli, Tor Anders (Ed.), Språk i arkiva. Ny forsking om eldre talemål frå LIA-prosjektet . Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283900811. p. 241–271. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2021). On the emergence of auxiliary selection in Germanic. In Eide, Kristin Melum & Fryd, Marc (Ed.), The perfect volume: Papers on the perfect. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 978-90-272-0860-6. p. 291–318.
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida (2020). Pronominale demonstrativer: Nye perspektiver fra norsk og svensk. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). ISSN 1890-9639. 11(2), p. 201–224. doi: 10.5617/osla.8499. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida & Roxendal, Johan (2020). Till den historiska korpuslingvistiken - stavningsnormalisering och automatisk annotering av verbpartiklar i en historisk text. In Laanemets, Anu; Sävborg, Daniel & Asu, Eva Liina (Ed.), Studier i svensk språkhistoria 15. Språkmöte och språkhistoria. . University of Tartu Press. ISSN 978-9949-03-264-8. p. 161–173. Full text in Research Archive
Lundquist, Bjørn; Larsson, Ida; Westendorp, Maud; Tengesdal, Eirik & Nøklestad, Anders (2019). Nordic Word Order Database: Motivations, methods, material and infrastructure. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 4(1), p. 1–33. doi: 10.5617/nals.7529. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
In this article, we present the Nordic Word Order Database (NWD), with a focus on the rationale behind it, the methods used in data elicitation, data analysis and the empirical scope of the database. NWD is an online database with a user-friendly search interface, hosted by The Text Laboratory at the University of Oslo, launched in April 2019 (https://tekstlab.uio.no/nwd). It contains elicited production data from speakers of all of the North Germanic languages, including several different dialects. So far, 7 fieldtrips have been conducted, and data from altogether around 250 participants (age 16–60) have been collected (approx. 55 000 sentences in total). The data elicitation is carried out through a carefully controlled production experiment that targets core syntactic phenomena that are known to show variation within and/or between the North Germanic languages, e.g., subject placement, object placement, particle placement and verb placement. In this article, we present the motivations and research questions behind the database, as well as a description of the experiment, the data collection procedure, and the structure of the database.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Larsson, Ida (2018). Stability and Change in Grammatical Gender: Pronouns in Heritage Scandinavian. Journal of Language Contact. ISSN 1877-4091. 11(3), p. 441–480. doi: 10.1163/19552629-01103004. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2017). Språkhistorien och den mänskliga språkförmågan. In Håkansson, David & Karlsson, Anna-Malin (Ed.), Varför Språkvetenskap? Kunskapsintressen, studieobjekt och drivkrafter. Studentlitteratur AB. ISSN 9789144108902. p. 111–128.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Larsson, Ida (2015). Complexity Matters: On Gender Agreement in Heritage Scandinavian. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01842. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida; Tingsell, Sofia & Andréasson, Maia (2015). Variation and Change in American Swedish. In Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Salmons, Joseph C. (Ed.), Germanic heritage languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027234988. p. 359–388. doi: 10.1075/silv.18.16lar.
Larsson, Ida (2015). The HAVE/BE alternation in Scandinavian - Perfects, Resultatives and Unaccusative Structure. In Kailuweit, Rolf & Rosemeyer, Malte (Ed.), Auxiliary selection revisited: Gradience and Gradualness. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110347371. p. 145–182. doi: 10.1515/9783110348866-006.
Larsson, Ida & Johannessen, Janne Bondi (2015). Embedded word order in Heritage Scandinavian. In Hilpert, Martin; Östman, Jan-Ola; Mertzlufft, Christine & Rießler, Michael (Ed.), New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 978-3-11-034697-8. p. 239–267. doi: 10.1515/9783110346978.239. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida & Johannessen, Janne Bondi (2015). Incomplete Acquisition and Verb Placement in Heritage Scandinavian. In Page, Richard S & Putnam, Michael T. (Ed.), Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004289604. p. 153–189. doi: 10.1163/9789004290211_008. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2014). Objektsplacering vid partikelverb i norska dialekter och äldre svenska. In Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Hagen, Kristin (Ed.), Språk i Norge og nabolanda. Ny forskning om talespråk. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-795-4. p. 99–132.
Larsson, Ida (2014). Word order under lade ‘let’ and høre ‘hear’. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 182–190. doi: 10.5617/nals.5386. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Tensed modal forms in non-finite contexts. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 353–359. doi: 10.5617/nals.5404. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Serial verb constructions. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 370–380. doi: 10.5617/nals.5406. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). HAVE and BE + participle of an unaccusative verb. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 381–395. doi: 10.5617/nals.5407. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). GET and HAVE + past participle or supine. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 165–181. doi: 10.5617/nals.5385. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Expletives and agreement in passives. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 360–369. doi: 10.5617/nals.5405. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Double supine. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 300–306. doi: 10.5617/nals.5399. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Double complementizers. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 447–457. doi: 10.5617/nals.5413. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Conditional clauses and the shape of HAVE. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 287–299. doi: 10.5617/nals.5398. Full text in Research Archive
Garbacz, Piotr & Larsson, Ida (2014). Omission of auxiliary HAVE. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 396–405. doi: 10.5617/nals.5408. Full text in Research Archive
Larsson, Ida (2014). Choice of non-referential subject in existential constructions and with weather-verbs. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 1, p. 55–71. doi: 10.5617/nals.5367. Full text in Research Archive

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Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2022). Morphosyntactic Change in Late Modern Swedish. Language Science Press. ISBN 9783961103256. 351 p.
Larsson, Ida; Søfteland, Åshild & Vindenes, Urd (2020). Praktisk grammatikk: øvingar og løysingsforslag. Det Norske Samlaget. ISBN 9788252199390. 224 p.

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Tengesdal, Eirik; Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Björn (2024). Prosodisk variasjon i partikkelkonstruksjoner i tre norske dialektområder. Show summary
I dette foredraget presenterer vi en undersøkelse av prosodien i partikkelkonstruksjoner i tre dialektområder (Finnmark, Trøndelag og Buskerud) basert på ca. 900 belegg med opp, ned, ut og inn i Nordisk dialektkorpus (Johannessen et al. 2009). I alle områdene er det variasjon mellom minst fire ulike aksentrealiseringer. Realisering som ett maksimalt prosodisk ord med hovedtrykk på verbet (²ˈgåˌut), sammensetningsaksent, er den mest frekvente realiseringen av partikkelverb i materialet; men denne typen er også den metrisk og syntaktisk mest begrensede. De andre typene er partikkelaksent (hovedtrykk på partikkelen; ⁰gå ¹ˈut), dobbel aksent (¹ˈgå ¹ˈut), og ingen aksent (hverken verb eller partikkel projiserer egne maksimale prosodiske ord; ⁰gå ⁰ut). Sammensetningsaksent er spesielt når partikkelkonstruksjonen utgjør en syntaktisk frase, men ett prosodisk ord (postleksikalsk; Kristoffersen 2000: 289). Også prosodisk variasjon i kontekster hvor verb og partikkel brytes opp av argumenter, reiser spørsmål om forholdet mellom syntaktisk og prosodisk struktur: Kan begrensningene på hva som utgjør et prosodisk ord (Riad 2014) forklares med syntaks, eller lineær rekkefølge, leksikalsk trykkspesifikasjon, og informasjonsstruktur? Hva styrer plasseringen av prominensen innen det prosodiske ordet (venstrehodet: sammensetningsaksent; høyrehodet: partikkelaksent)? Målet er å gi et oversyn over distribusjonen av de ulike prosodiske realiseringene i disse dialektene, og å belyse underliggende faktorer som styrer variasjonen. Overordnet er sammensetningsaksent vanligst (50,7 %), men distribusjonen av de fire ulike typene er ulik på tvers av fylkene. Trøndelag har den høyeste andelen sammensetningsaksent (76,3 %), etterfulgt av Buskerud (52,4 %). Finnmark viser en mer balansert distribusjon. Felles er at det er lavere sannsynlighet for at verbet og partikkelen danner én prosodisk enhet når elementer intervenerer mellom dem; sammensetningsaksent er mest sensitiv for dette. Ikke-direksjonelle og ofte ikke-gjennomsiktige verb–partikkel-enheter realiseres oftere som én prosodisk enhet. Det er kategoriske forskjeller i distribusjonen av partikkel- og sammensetningsaksent. Sammensetningsaksent er kun lisensiert hvis ingen aksentuerte elementer intervenerer mellom verb og partikkel og hvis verb og partikkel instansierer et syntaktisk verb–partikkel-forhold. Partikkelaksent er mer tilgjengelig, og følger et generelt deaksentueringsmønster kjent for ord som verb, og verb–komplement-kombinasjoner (⁰kjøre ¹ˈbil). Overordnet kan det variable mønsteret i de tre områdene delvis forklares med de kategoriske restriksjonene på sammensetningsaksent. Vi foreslår at de ikke-kategoriske faktorene delvis kan forklares med produksjonsplanlegging (f.eks. Wagner 2011), og muligens generelle prosodiske vilkår kjent fra germanske språk. Dette inkluderer deaksentuering av visse ord (verb deaksentueres oftere enn argumenter; Myrberg & Riad 2015: 134) og tendensen til prosodisk frasehode nær høyre frasekant (f.eks. Selkirk 1984).
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida Gunilla (2023). Investigating a low-frequency phenomenon in nearly extinct HLs: embedded verb placement in Argentine Heritage Norwegian/Swedish.
Larsson, Ida Gunilla & Kinn, Kari (2023). Språkförändring och nordiskt arvspråk.
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida Gunilla (2023). Embedded verb placement in North American and Argentine heritage Scandinavian.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2022). Satsens inledning i amerikasvenskt arvspråk.
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2022). Utvecklingen av svensk partikelplacering.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2022). Satsens inledning i svenskt arvspråk.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2022). Stability and change in the C-domain in American Swedish.
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2021). Pronomenskiften - variation förr och nu.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2021). Transmission of complex variation in a heritage language context: American Norwegian argument shift across generations.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2021). Transmission of complex variation: American Norwegian argument shift .
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida (2021). Transmission of complex variation in a heritage language context: American Norwegian argument shift across generations.
Larsson, Ida (2021). Finithet och finitlösa satser. Det kanske du aldrig trott om svenskan! In Brandtler, Johan & Kalm, Mikael (Ed.), Nyanser av grammatik. Gränser, mångfald, fördjupning. . Studentlitteratur AB. ISSN 978-91-44-13623-3. p. 193–214.
Larsson, Ida (2021). Variation and Change in American Swedish.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2020). Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian.
Larsson, Ida & Kinn, Kari (2020). Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian.
Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2020). Writing the history of a language and historical linguistics. a discussion of Norsk språkhistorie: Mønster and Dansk sproghistorie: Dansk tager form. Arkiv för nordisk filologi. ISSN 0066-7668.
Larsson, Ida; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westendorp, Maud; Nøklestad, Anders & Tengesdal, Eirik (2020). The Nordic Word Order Database.
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida (2020). Argumentskiften över gränser och generationer.
Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2020). Är det norska eller svenska? Om partikelplacering och passiv på Orust kring 1900.
Larsson, Ida & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2020). Morfosyntaktisk förändring i yngre nysvenska.
Vangsnes, Øystein A; Larsson, Ida; Lødrup, Helge & Westergaard, Marit (2020). En stor språkforsker. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Show summary
Vår kjære venn, kollega og fagfelle, professor Janne Bondi Johannessen, døde 15. juni, halvannen måned før sin sekstiårsdag. Janne hadde sin utdannelse i lingvistikk fra UiO. Doktoravhandlingen fra 1994 om syntaktisk koordinering, seinere publisert på Oxford University Press, er en av de mest siterte av noen norsk lingvist.
Kinn, Kari & Larsson, Ida (2019). Argumentskifte over grenser og generasjoner .
Lundquist, Bjørn; Larsson, Ida; Westendorp, Maud; Tengesdal, Eirik & Nøklestad, Anders (2019). Presenting the Nordic Word Order Database.
Lundquist, Bjørn; Larsson, Ida; Westendorp, Maud & Tengesdal, Eirik (2019). The Nordic Word Order Database: New methods for studying variation within and between speakers and varieties in North Germanic.
Larsson, Ida (2018). Nordisk splittring: om ordföljden vid partikelverb i svenskans och danskans historia.
Larsson, Ida & Roxendal, Johan (2018). Försök till automatisk annotering av partikelverb i historisk text.
Lundquist, Bjørn & Larsson, Ida (2018). Nordisk ordföljdsdatabas.
Tengesdal, Eirik; Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2018). Partikelvariationer i norska dialekter.
Lundquist, Björn & Larsson, Ida (2018). Argumentplacering i nordiska dialekter - ett experiment.
Larsson, Ida & Andréasson, Maia (2017). Svenskan i Amerikanordisk talspråkskorpus.
Larsson, Ida & Andréasson, Maia (2017). Subjektsplacering i svenskans och danskans moderna historia.
Larsson, Ida; Andréasson, Maia; Tingsell, Sofia & Eryd, Henrietta Adamsson (2017). Do you speak Swedish? American Swedish in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech.
Lundquist, Bjørn & Larsson, Ida (2017). Argumentplacering i nordiska dialekter – ett experiment.
Larsson, Ida (2017). System- och användaraspekter.
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2017). Argument Placement in Mainland Scandinavian - Stable Variation and Parametric Change.
Larsson, Ida (2017). Variation and Change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase.
Larsson, Ida (2017). Nordisk dialektsplittring i nyare tid.
Larsson, Ida (2017). Om amerikasvenskans grammatik - språkinlärning och språkförlust i svenska som arvspråk.
Larsson, Ida (2017). Voices of American Swedish: Old Inheritance and New Developments.
Larsson, Ida (2017). The Scandinavian Laboratory – a view from microcomparison.
Larsson, Ida; Håkansson, David & Petzell, Erik Magnusson (2017). Introducing syntactic variation and change. Linguistic Variation. ISSN 2211-6834. 17(1), p. 1–7. doi: 10.1075/lv.17.1.01hak.
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2016). Fastlandskandinaviska argumentskiften – variation med och utan förändring.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Larsson, Ida & Hjelde, Arnstein (2016). A Challenging Test.
Larsson, Ida (2015). On the emergence of auxiliary selection in Germanic.
Larsson, Ida & Johannessen, Janne Bondi (2015). American Heritage Norwegian and Swedish: Incomplete Acquisition and Attrition.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Larsson, Ida (2015). Sentence Processing in American Scandinavian Heritage Language.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Larsson, Ida & Hjelde, Arnstein (2015). How to uncover the grammatical competence of Scandinavian heritage speakers.
Larsson, Ida; Hjelde, Arnstein & Johannessen, Janne Bondi (2015). American Norwegian: Speakers and data.
Brandner, Eleonore & Larsson, Ida (2014). Perfect doubling and the grammaticalization of auxiliaries.
Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Björn (2014). Ordföljd och partiklar i norska dialekter och äldre svenska.
Larsson, Ida & Brandner, Eleonore (2014). Germanic perfect doubling and the grammaticalization of temporal HAVE.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi & Larsson, Ida (2014). Pronouns and gender in American heritage Norwegian and Swedish.

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