Publications

In progress/To appear

  • Bentzen, K. & M. Anderssen. In progress. Different outcomes in the acquisition of do-support in three Norwegian/English bilinguals: Delay and acceleration. To be submitted to Frontiers in Psychology special issue Bilingual language development: The role of dominance.
  • Anderssen, M., K. Bentzen, G. Busterud, A. Dahl, J. Didriksen, B. Lundquist & M. Westergaard. Under evaluation. The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift. Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
  • Bentzen, K. & M. Anderssen. To appear. The form and position of pronominal objects with non-nominal antecedents in Scandinavian and German. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.

2017

  • Vangsnes, Ø., M. Anderssen & K. Bentzen. 2017. Nynorsk språktileigning i eit tospråksperspektiv [The acquisition of new Norwegian in a bilingual perspective], in E. Bjørhusdal & I. Brügger Budal (eds.) Nynorsk med dei minste, Samlaget, pp. 223-238.

2015

  • Bentzen, K. 2015: Mapping information structure and word order: The acquisition of object placement. Invited contribution to a volume of the John Benjamins series Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR), pp. 51-82.
  • Bentzen, K., H. Rosenkvist, J.B. Johannessen (editors). 2015. Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New Research on a Lesser-Known Scandinavian Language. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2014

  • Westergaard, M., A. Sorace, C. Heycock & K. Bentzen. 2014: ‘Variable verb placement in embedded clauses: Comparing English and Norwegian children’, in Inquiries into Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition: Papers offered to Adriana Belletti.
  • Bentzen, K. 2014. Setninger med kanskje i forfeltet i skandinavisk, med fokus på norsk og svensk [Sentences with maybe clause-initially in Scandinavian, with special focus on Norwegian and Swedish]. In J.B. Johannessen & K. Hagen (eds.) Språk i Norge og nabolanda. Ny forskning om talespråk. Novus forlag, ss. 27-45.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Embedded Verb Second (V2). In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Object Shift. In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Subject and object extraction from embedded clauses. In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Subject placement with respect to negation. In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Verb placement in clauses with initial adverbial maybe. In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Verb placement in main and embedded clauses (introduction). In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine. 2014. Verb placement in relative clauses. In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.
  • Bentzen, Kristine og Björn Lundquist. 2014. The Middle Field (Introduction). In The Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Online (NALS). http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nals.

2013

  • Bentzen, K., J. Merchant & P. Svenonius. 2013: ‘Deep properties of surface pronouns’, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 16, 97-125.
  • Anderssen, M. & K. Bentzen. 2013: Cross-linguistic influence outside the syntax-pragmatics interface: A case study of the acquisition of definiteness. Studia Linguistica 67.1, 82-100.
  • Bentzen, K., M. Anderssen & C. Waldmann. 2013: Object Shift in spoken Mainland Scandinavian: A corpus study of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 36.2, 115-151.

2012

  • Anderssen, M., K. Bentzen & Y. Rodina. 2012: Topicality and complexity in the acquisition of Norwegian Object Shift, Language Acquisition 19, 39-72.
  • Anderssen, M. & K. Bentzen. 2012. Norwegian Object Shift as IP-internal topicalization. In K. Bentzen & A. Fábregas (eds.) Nordlyd 39.1: The Grammar of Objects, 1-23.