Andrew Weir
About
I am Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) of Modern English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Language and Literature. I received my undergraduate MA in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 2008, an MA in Syntax from University College London in 2009, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. Prior to starting at NTNU in 2015, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the English department of Ghent University in Belgium.
I am/have been responsible for teaching a number of courses in the section's and department's language portfolio. I focus on theoretical linguistics and syntax and semantics (ENG1101 English Linguistics, ENG2155 Theoretical Approaches to English Language, ENG3110 Special Subject in English Language, SPRÅK3002 Theories in Linguistics, SPRÅK3200 Semantics and Pragmatics), but have also taught in ENG1001 Global English and SPRÅK3001 Methods in Linguistics. I am also interested in advising student theses (at BA, MA, or PhD level) on any subject within theoretical linguistics, in particular syntax and semantics, or concerning (formal/grammatical aspects of) varieties of English.
Academic interests
I specialize in generative, theoretical linguistics. I am particularly interested in interfaces between the core linguistic 'modules' of syntax, semantics, and phonology/prosody. My work in this area particularly focuses on ellipsis (especially clausal ellipsis). I am also interested in comparative syntax and microvariation -- particularly syntactic and semantic features of dialects of English, especially Scottish English, and of ‘reduced written register’ such as diaries, text messages, headlines etc. I am a member of the AcqVA (Acquisition, Variation and Attrition) research group.
My personal website contains more details and copies of papers etc. (some 'in press, to appear, submitted' etc. which do not appear in the below automatically-generated list).
Publications
2022
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Weir, Andrew.
(2022)
Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody.
The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis.
Academic chapter/article
2021
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Weir, Andrew.
(2021)
English and Englishes.
Edge.
Chapter
2020
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Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Introduction to special issue on morphosyntactic variation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
volum 43.
Academic article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Antecedentless fragments: a middle road between sententialism and nonsententialism.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Linguistics.
Academic article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Negative fragment answers.
The Oxford Handbook of Negation.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Resultatives, goal PPs, and postverbal subjects: From Scotland to Belfast.
Journal of Linguistics.
volum 58 (1).
Academic article
2019
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Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Morphosyntactic microvariation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
volum 42 (1).
Editorial
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Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Diary null subjects: an analogy with imperatives?.
Mapping linguistic data: essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman.
Academic chapter/article
2018
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Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Cointensional questions, fragment answers, and structured meanings.
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Structurally ambiguous 'again' without lexical decomposition: a Function Composition approach.
NELS 48: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society.
Academic chapter/article
2017
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Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth;
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions.
NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
But write what?.
A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
DP-be-CP constructions and the licensing of clausal ellipsis.
NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 3.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Object drop and article drop in reduced written register.
Linguistic Variation.
volum 17 (2).
Academic article
2016
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Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2016)
Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish.
Finiteness Matters. On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages.
Academic chapter/article
2015
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Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
The cartography of 'yes' and 'no' in West Flemish.
Discourse-oriented Syntax.
Academic chapter/article
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Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew;
Danckaert, Lieven;
D'Hulster, Tijs;
Buelens, Liisa.
(2015)
Against the root analysis of subject contact relatives in English.
Lingua.
volum 163.
Academic article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
Fragment answers and 'exceptional movement under ellipsis': A PF-movement account.
NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 3.
Academic chapter/article
2014
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Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
Fragment answers and the Question under Discussion.
NELS 44: Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 2.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
'Why'-stripping targets Voice Phrase.
NELS 43: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume Two.
Academic chapter/article
2013
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Weir, Andrew.
(2013)
The syntax of imperatives in Scots.
After the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Aberdeen 2012.
Academic chapter/article
2012
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Weir, Andrew.
(2012)
Left-edge deletion in English and subject omission in diaries.
English Language and Linguistics.
volum 16 (1).
Academic article
Scientific articles
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Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Introduction to special issue on morphosyntactic variation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
volum 43.
Academic article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Antecedentless fragments: a middle road between sententialism and nonsententialism.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Linguistics.
Academic article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Resultatives, goal PPs, and postverbal subjects: From Scotland to Belfast.
Journal of Linguistics.
volum 58 (1).
Academic article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Object drop and article drop in reduced written register.
Linguistic Variation.
volum 17 (2).
Academic article
-
Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew;
Danckaert, Lieven;
D'Hulster, Tijs;
Buelens, Liisa.
(2015)
Against the root analysis of subject contact relatives in English.
Lingua.
volum 163.
Academic article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2012)
Left-edge deletion in English and subject omission in diaries.
English Language and Linguistics.
volum 16 (1).
Academic article
Journal publications
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Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Morphosyntactic microvariation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
volum 42 (1).
Editorial
Part of book/report
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Weir, Andrew.
(2022)
Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody.
The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2021)
English and Englishes.
Edge.
Chapter
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Negative fragment answers.
The Oxford Handbook of Negation.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Diary null subjects: an analogy with imperatives?.
Mapping linguistic data: essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Cointensional questions, fragment answers, and structured meanings.
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21.
Academic chapter/article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Structurally ambiguous 'again' without lexical decomposition: a Function Composition approach.
NELS 48: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society.
Academic chapter/article
-
Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth;
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions.
NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
But write what?.
A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson.
Academic chapter/article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
DP-be-CP constructions and the licensing of clausal ellipsis.
NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 3.
Academic chapter/article
-
Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2016)
Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish.
Finiteness Matters. On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages.
Academic chapter/article
-
Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
The cartography of 'yes' and 'no' in West Flemish.
Discourse-oriented Syntax.
Academic chapter/article
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
Fragment answers and 'exceptional movement under ellipsis': A PF-movement account.
NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 3.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
Fragment answers and the Question under Discussion.
NELS 44: Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 2.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
'Why'-stripping targets Voice Phrase.
NELS 43: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume Two.
Academic chapter/article
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Weir, Andrew.
(2013)
The syntax of imperatives in Scots.
After the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Aberdeen 2012.
Academic chapter/article
Teaching
Courses
Media
2022
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2022) Optionality in auxiliary contraction deletion in English: an interface account. AcqVA workshop . AcqVA; Jeløya. 2022-04-29.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2022) Restitutive 'again': function composition, not syntactic decomposition. Semantics in Norway ; Gran. 2022-05-04 - 2022-05-06.
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Popular scientific lectureWeir, Andrew. (2022) The Scots language: past and present. Skotsk aften . Trondheim Friends of Scotland Society; Trondheim. 2022-10-27.
2020
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Popular scientific lectureWeir, Andrew. (2020) English and Englishes. Norsk Oversetterforening Fagseminar . Norsk Oversetterforening; Oslo. 2020-02-29.
2019
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2019) Dialect data and generative syntax: Theories and methodologies. ScoSYa "Data Hack" . Scots Syntactic Atlas project; University of Glasgow. 2019-06-10.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2019) Intra-speaker variation and the syntax-prosody interface: left-edge ellipsis and auxiliary contraction in English. Register and dialect variation in the individual . AcqVA; Trondheim. 2019-10-28.
2018
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2018) Left-edge ellipsis and clausal ellipsis: The division of labor between syntax, semantics and prosody. Societas Linguistica Europaea annual meeting . Societas Linguistica Europaea; Tallinn. 2018-08-29 - 2018-09-01.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2018) Predicate that-anaphora in English and beyond. CASTLFish colloquium ; UiT. 2018-11-16.
2017
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Popular scientific lectureWeir, Andrew. (2017) La lingva situacio en Norvegio: ĉu lecionoj por la skota lingvo? [The language situation in Norway: lessons for Scots?]. Scottish and British Esperanto Congress . Esperanto Association of Britain; Edinburgh. 2017-05-19 - 2017-05-21.
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Popular scientific lectureWeir, Andrew. (2017) Lingvo: kio distingas nin de la bestoj (?) [Language: what distinguishes us from animals (?)]. Scottish and British Esperanto Congress . Esperanto Association of Britain; Edinburgh. 2017-05-19 - 2017-05-21.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2017) Restitutive 'again' without lexical decomposition. NELS 48 ; University of Iceland. 2017-10-27 - 2017-10-29.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew; Kush, Dave Whitney; Dahl, Anne. (2017) Acquisition and variation in ellipsis. AcqVA retreat . AcqVA; Tromsø. 2017-12-04 - 2017-12-05.
2016
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Academic lectureBogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth; Weir, Andrew. (2016) Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions. NELS 47 ; University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2016-10-14 - 2016-10-16.
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PosterWeir, Andrew. (2016) Cointensional questions and their implications for questions and fragment answers. Sinn und Bedeutung 21 ; University of Edinburgh. 2016-09-04 - 2016-09-06.
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PosterWeir, Andrew. (2016) Ellipsis in 'DP be CP' constructions and the syntax of embedded fragments. NELS 47 ; University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2016-10-14 - 2016-10-16.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2016) Ellipsis in 'DP be CP' constructions and the syntax of embedded fragments. Workshop on Fragments ; Universität des Saarlandes. 2016-10-13 - 2016-10-14.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2016) Headlinese. Text and Genre course ; Universiteit Gent. 2016-11-25.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2016) Phrasal pronominalization and intra-Germanic variation in predicate that-anaphora. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 31 ; Stellenbosch University. 2016-12-01 - 2016-12-03.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2016) That's that construction analysed: that be 'resultatives' in Scottish English. Linguistics Association of Great Britain . LAGB; University of York. 2016-09-06 - 2016-09-09.
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2016) The prosodic licensing of left-edge ellipsis and implications for clausal ellipsis. Ellipsis and Prosody workshop ; Universiteit Leiden. 2016-01-15 - 2016-01-16.
2014
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Academic lectureWeir, Andrew. (2014) Fragment answers and 'exceptional movement under ellipsis': A PF-movement account. NELS 45 . North East Linguistics Society; MIT, Boston MA. 2014-10-31 - 2014-11-02.