Inghild Flaate Høyem
Inghild Flaate Høyem
Professor, Head of programme Foreign Languages
Department of Language and Literature Faculty of HumanitiesBackground and activities
I am Full Professor of German linguistics in the Department of language and literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I did my PhD in German linguistics at the same institution in 2005. In my research, I am interested in modern German syntax and semantics, mainly focussing on German data, but also in comparison to Norwegian or other (related) languages and related to second/third language acquisition.
I teach German linguistics at all levels within the BA and MA programmes in German. I supervise bachelor's, master's and PhD theses on topics within German grammar and linguistics (morphology, syntax, semantics) and language acquisition, but also theses related to the teachers' training programme, for instance the acquisition of German as a foreign language. Furthermore, I also supervise theses concerning the (linguistics aspects of) translation between German and Norwegian.
Academic interests
- modern German grammar and linguistic theory
- modern German syntax (incl. comparative and contrastive syntax mainly focussing on German and Norwegian)
- the syntax-semantics interface
- predication and different kinds of small clauses
- control theory
- adjuncts/adverbials
- second/third language acquisition
Selected research projects
- German als-predicatives (i.e. non-verbal small clauses headed by the particle als)
- German adverbial infinitives headed by an(statt), ohne and um
- absolute nominative and accusative constructions in German
- adjunct control
- member of the research groups AcqVA and eScApeS
Positions
- member of the National Council for German Studies, 2010-
- leader of the National Council for German Studies, 2016-2019
- member of the Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS), 2019-
- member of the International Scientific Council (= Internationaler Wissenschaftlicher Rat) at IDS Mannheim, 2019-
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Adjunct control in German, Norwegian, and English. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
- (2019) Ereigniskontrollierte Adjunkte im Deutschen. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik. vol. 47 (3).
- (2019) Zur Syntax und Semantik absoluter mit-Sätzchen im Deutschen. Linguistische Berichte. vol. 260.
- (2019) Über den Kontrollstatus deutscher Partizipialkonstruktionen mit dem Partizip 2 als Kern. Deutsche Sprache. vol. 47 (2).
- (2018) Adjunktkontrolle im Deutschen. Linguistische Berichte.
- (2018) Über die Syntax sogenannter absoluter Konstruktionen im Deutschen. Deutsche Sprache.
- (2018) Adverbiale Partizipialkonstruktionen im Deutschen mit dem Partizip 1 als Kern. Sprache und Sprachen in Forschung und Anwendung. vol. 6.
- (2015) Zum Kontrollproblem adverbialer Infinitive im Deutschen. Deutsche Sprache.
Books
- (2007) Die als-Prädikative im Deutschen. Eine syntaktisch-semantische Analyse. Stauffenburg Verlag. 2007. ISBN 978-3-86057-462-1.
Part of book/report
- (2021) Event Control. Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective.
Report/dissertation
- (2005) Die als-Prädikative im Deutschen. Eine syntaktisch-semantische Analyse. 2005. ISBN 8247171589.
Others
- (2022) Participial adjunct control: a scope-based-approach. Research colloquium . Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart; Stuttgart. 2022-05-10 - 2022-05-10.
- (2019) "Event Control". "Cross-linguistic variation in control phenomena" . Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS); Universitetet i Bremen. 2019-03-06 - 2019-03-08.
- (2019) "Event Control". Research seminar / Forschungskolloquium . Institut für Linguistik Universität Stuttgart; Stuttgart. 2019-02-05 - 2019-02-05.
- (2017) German vs. Norwegian adjunct small clauses headed by als/som. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop . NTNU; Trondheim. 2017-09-13 - 2017-09-15.
- (2017) Adjunct control. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop . NTNU; Trondheim. 2017-09-13 - 2017-09-15.