Marta Velnic
Background and activities
I am a postdoc researcher at the department of language and literature and I am a member of the AcqVA research group. I have completed my PhD in Linguistics from UiT the Arctic University of Norway in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Merete Anderssen and Professor Marit Westergaard. Before that, I completed my MA in Linguistics (2012) and my BA in Anthropology (2008) at the University of Bologna.
My current postdoc project is on Cross-Linguistic Influence in Norwegian-Italian bilinguals. the main focus of this project are possessive structures as both languages have the pre-and post-nominal structure but are used in different contexts in the two languages. Thus, these structures provide fertile ground for observing the direction and contexts in which CLI takes place.
Research Interests:
- Language acquisition
- Cross-Linguistic Influence
- Bilingualism
- Pragmatics
- Possessives
- Ditransitive structures
- Givenness
- Animacy
- Referring expression
- Adjectives
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) Acquisition of a Transparent Gender System: A Comparison of Italian and Croatian. Frontiers in Psychology. vol. 11.
- (2019) The Effects of Animacy and Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Child Language. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. vol. 27 (1).
- (2018) The Influence of Animacy, Givenness, and Focus on Object Order in Croatian Ditransitives. Studia Linguistica.
- (2018) The effects of discourse topic on global and local markers in Croatian ditransitives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. vol. 3 (1).
- (2015) Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms. Poljarnyj Vestnik. vol. 18.
Report/dissertation
- (2018) Ditransitive structures in Croatian adult and child language: The role of animacy and givenness. 2018. ISBN 978-82-8244-193-3.