University of Iceland

Faculty Member, Department of Icelandic

Professor

About

I have 30 years of teaching experience in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Icelandic at the University of Iceland. I have taught more than 30 different courses – undergraduate courses on Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics, and Linguistic Meth­ods, and graduate courses on Phonology, Morphology, Syntax (both synchronic and diachronic). and Natural Language Processing. I have been active in developing teaching material and teaching methods. I have written textbooks on Icelandic phonetics, generative phonology and generative morphology for use at the university level.

I have almost 30 years of research experience, especially within Icelandic syntax, both syn­chronic and dia­chronic. In the past few years, I have participated in a number of collaborative projects and networks on syntactic variation. I have published several papers on Icelandic syntax, especially diachronic and historical syntax. I have also written articles and textbooks on Modern Icelandic pho­netics, phonology and morphology.

In re­cent years, my interests have turned to corpus linguistics and language technology. I was a pioneer in these fields at the University of Iceland and have been project leader or steering group member of several Icelandic language technology projects. I have cooperated with companies from the software and telecommunications industry on various projects. I have also taken part in a number of research projects on Icelandic Language Technology and several Nordic pro­jects and networks in this area.

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