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Ragnhild Eik

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Ragnhild Eik

Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literature
Faculty of Humanities

ragnhild.eik@ntnu.no
+4773596471 Bygg 3, 3405, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
ForMAAL GenVAC
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About

I am an associate professor of Nordic linguistics in the Department og Language and Literature. I am a member of the AcqVA research group and the GenVAC research project. The GenVAC project investigates variation, acquisition and change in the grammatical gender of Norwegian nouns, especially with respect to the feminine gender, which is currently undergoing language change.

I received my PhD in Nordic linguistics in 2019 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), supervised by professor Tor A. Åfarli and professor Terje Lohndal. In my dissertation I study the grammar of Norwegian compound words.

My teaching is related to grammar, Norwegian as a second language, dialectal variation and theories of science. I supervise students on BA, MA and PhD level.

Research interests

  • Grammar of Norwegian
  • Syntax and morphology
  • Dialectal variation
  • Argument structure
  • Grammatical gender
  • Sami languages
  • Multilingualism and code switching
  • Theories of science
  • Grammar teaching

 

 

 

 

Research

  • ForMAAL
  • GenVAC

Publications

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2025

  • Eik, Ragnhild; Hårstad, Stian; Opsahl, Toril. (2025) “E det kje non ting at du kan bruka ‘ein’ te sånne hukjønnverb òg nå?”: Byggelek som inngang til metaspråklige refleksjonsdata. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
    Academic article

2024

  • Lohndal, Terje; van Baal, Yvonne ; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild. (2024) Når ei bok blir til e(i)n bok: Utviklinga av grammatisk hokjønn i Egersund og Stavanger.
    Popular scientific chapter/article
  • Lohndal, Terje; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda; van Baal, Yvonne . (2024) Når ei bok blir til en bok: Utviklingen av hunkjønn i lyngdalsdialekten.
    Popular scientific chapter/article
  • Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; van Baal, Yvonne ; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) The decline of feminine possessives in Norwegian: An empirical and theoretical investigation of gender and declension class. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
    Academic article
  • Eik, Ragnhild. (2024) Ho trakka han på foten – ein eksoskeletal analyse av possessivt objekt. Maal og Minne
    Academic article
  • van Baal, Yvonne ; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) The decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialects. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
    Academic article

2023

  • van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2023) Endringer i grammatisk kjønn på tvers av dialekter: Et eksperimentelt paradigme. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Lohndal, Terje; van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda. (2023) "Replication Data for Grammatical Gender in Norwegian Dialects: Variation, Acquisition and Change (GenVAC)".
    Database

2022

  • Eik, Ragnhild; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik. (2022) Compound-Internal Language Mixing in American Norwegian. Languages
    Academic article

2021

  • Eik, Ragnhild; van Baal, Yvonne; Lohndal, Terje. (2021) Sier du "en bok" eller "ei bok"?. NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg
    Popular scientific article
  • Eik, Ragnhild; Laanemets, Anu. (2021) Å være eller å bli - det er spørsmålet. Ei sammenligning av verbene VÆRE og BLI i amerikanorsk og norgenorsk. Novus Forlag
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2019

  • Kush, Dave Whitney; Eik, Ragnhild. (2019) Antecedent accessibility and exceptional covariation: Evidence from Norwegian Donkey Pronouns. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
    Academic article
  • Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders. (2019) The morphosyntax of compounding in Norwegian. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (121)
    Doctoral dissertation

2018

  • Kush, Dave Whitney; Dillon, Brian; Eik, Ragnhild; Staub, Adrian. (2018) Processing of Norwegian complex verbs: Evidence for early decomposition. Memory & Cognition
    Academic article

2014

  • Eik, Ragnhild; Åfarli, Tor Anders. (2014) Setningar med possessivt objekt i norsk: Ein nykonstruksjonistisk analyse av setningar som "ho trakka han på foten". NTNU Noregs teknisk-naturvitskaplege universitet (HF, ISL)
    Masters thesis

Journal publications

  • Eik, Ragnhild; Hårstad, Stian; Opsahl, Toril. (2025) “E det kje non ting at du kan bruka ‘ein’ te sånne hukjønnverb òg nå?”: Byggelek som inngang til metaspråklige refleksjonsdata. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; van Baal, Yvonne ; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) The decline of feminine possessives in Norwegian: An empirical and theoretical investigation of gender and declension class. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
    Academic article
  • Eik, Ragnhild. (2024) Ho trakka han på foten – ein eksoskeletal analyse av possessivt objekt. Maal og Minne
    Academic article
  • van Baal, Yvonne ; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) The decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialects. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
    Academic article
  • van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2023) Endringer i grammatisk kjønn på tvers av dialekter: Et eksperimentelt paradigme. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Eik, Ragnhild; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik. (2022) Compound-Internal Language Mixing in American Norwegian. Languages
    Academic article
  • Eik, Ragnhild; van Baal, Yvonne; Lohndal, Terje. (2021) Sier du "en bok" eller "ei bok"?. NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg
    Popular scientific article
  • Kush, Dave Whitney; Eik, Ragnhild. (2019) Antecedent accessibility and exceptional covariation: Evidence from Norwegian Donkey Pronouns. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
    Academic article
  • Kush, Dave Whitney; Dillon, Brian; Eik, Ragnhild; Staub, Adrian. (2018) Processing of Norwegian complex verbs: Evidence for early decomposition. Memory & Cognition
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Lohndal, Terje; van Baal, Yvonne ; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild. (2024) Når ei bok blir til e(i)n bok: Utviklinga av grammatisk hokjønn i Egersund og Stavanger.
    Popular scientific chapter/article
  • Lohndal, Terje; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda; van Baal, Yvonne . (2024) Når ei bok blir til en bok: Utviklingen av hunkjønn i lyngdalsdialekten.
    Popular scientific chapter/article
  • Eik, Ragnhild; Laanemets, Anu. (2021) Å være eller å bli - det er spørsmålet. Ei sammenligning av verbene VÆRE og BLI i amerikanorsk og norgenorsk. Novus Forlag
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders. (2019) The morphosyntax of compounding in Norwegian. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (121)
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Eik, Ragnhild; Åfarli, Tor Anders. (2014) Setningar med possessivt objekt i norsk: Ein nykonstruksjonistisk analyse av setningar som "ho trakka han på foten". NTNU Noregs teknisk-naturvitskaplege universitet (HF, ISL)
    Masters thesis

Product

  • Lohndal, Terje; van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda. (2023) "Replication Data for Grammatical Gender in Norwegian Dialects: Variation, Acquisition and Change (GenVAC)".
    Database

Outreach

2025

  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild; Opsahl, Toril. (2025) Participants’ reflections on feminine gender. Preliminary analyses. GenVAC GenVAC Final Event , Thon hotel Storo 2025-04-23 - 2025-04-25
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild; Opsahl, Toril. (2025) “You can use EIN with feminine verbs too now”. A methodology for collection of reflection data. GenVAC GenVAC Final Event , Thon hotel Storo 2025-04-23 - 2025-04-25

2024

  • Academic lecture
    van Baal, Yvonne ; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) Microvariation in grammatical gender: the loss of feminine across Norwegian dialects. Microvariation and Microchange in the Scandinavian Languages , Kristiansand 2024-05-14 - 2024-05-16
  • Programme participation
    Zahl, Hilde; Eik, Ragnhild; Aa, Leiv Inge; Hognestad, Jan Kristian. (2024) Språksnakk - Eittvill og tofast. NRK NRK [Radio] 2024-05-24
  • Programme participation
    Eik, Ragnhild; van Ommeren, Rikke; Zahl, Hilde. (2024) Delsom, opphjelp, fant og fanteri. Språksnakk, NRK P2 Språksnakk, NRK P2 [Radio] 2024-02-09
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild; Opsahl, Toril. (2024) "[D]u kan bruka 'ein' te sånne hukjønnverb og nå?" - presentasjon av en framgangsmåte for innsamling av refleksjonsdata. Universitetet i Agder SONE-konferansen 2024: Lingvistiske landskap , Kristiansand 2024-04-11 - 2024-04-12
  • Programme participation
    Eik, Ragnhild; van Ommeren, Rikke; Solheim, Randi. (2024) Språksnakk - lemrende eller snærende. NRK radio og podcast NRK radio og podcast [Radio] 2024-04-19
  • Lecture
    Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) Ivar Aasen anno 2024: Storskalainnsamling av språkdata. NTNU ISL-dagen 2024 , Trondheim 2024-05-29 - 2024-05-29
  • Academic lecture
    Solbakken, Hedda; Van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) The loss of feminine gender: Determiners and possessives across Norwegian dialects. Queen Mary University of London 32nd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE32) , London 2024-01-17 - 2024-01-19
  • Lecture
    Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) Gender vs. declension class: A comparison of feminine markers on determiners and possessives. NTNU ForMAAL , Trondheim 2024-03-21 - 2024-03-21
  • Lecture
    Lundquist, Björn; Eik, Ragnhild; Van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Solbakken, Hedda; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) Alignment and dissociation in production and perception during change. University of Edinburgh Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP) , Edinburgh 2024-09-05 - 2024-09-07
  • Lecture
    Lundquist, Björn; Eik, Ragnhild; Van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Solbakken, Hedda; Lohndal, Terje. (2024) The role of the unmarked in the processing and change of grammatical gender. NTNU The 9th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC9) , Trondheim 2024-06-05 - 2024-06-07

2023

  • Academic lecture
    Solbakken, Hedda; Van Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2023) Loss of feminine gender forms: A cross-dialectal study of Norwegian determiners and possessives. CreteLing CreteLing Poster Conference , Rethymno, Crete 2023-07-20 - 2023-07-20
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2023) Hunkjønn i norsk: Individuell variasjon i en endringssituasjon. NTNU Presentasjon i forskargruppa Språklege Økologiar – norsk(e) språk i tid og rom (SPRØK) , Trondheim 2023-10-06 -
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2023) Adjuncts and arguments in compounds. KU Leuven Online forskargruppeseminar i CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology) 2023-03-15 -
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2023) Bortfall av femininum i sju norske dialektar. Lunds Universitet Forskarseminariet i nordiska språk , Lund 2023-06-14 -
  • Programme participation
    Eik, Ragnhild; van Ommeren, Rikke; Paulsen, Mikkel Ekeland; Sonstad, Klaus. (2023) Rundt peisen, ratatosk, ...og jeg. NRK, Språksnakk NRK, Språksnakk [Radio] 2023-02-17
  • Programme participation
    Eik, Ragnhild; van Ommeren, Rikke; Paulsen, Mikkel Ekeland; Sonstad, Klaus. (2023) Nissen og mellomjula - bokstavlig talt. NRK NRK [Radio] 2023-12-15
  • Programme participation
    Sjo, Klara; Eik, Ragnhild; Husby, Olaf. (2023) Mast, Knullskardet og en whisky. NRK NRK [Radio] 2023-06-02

2022

  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik. (2022) Hostecandy og blackbærbusk: Språkblanding i samansette ord. UiT Norges arktiske universitet 19. møte om norsk språk (MONS 19) , Tromsø 2022-11-23 - 2022-11-25
  • Lecture
    Solbakken, Hedda; van Baal, Yvonne; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2022) Feminine gender across Norwegian dialects: ​Articles and possessives. UiT & NTNU AcqVA Retreat , Jeløya 2022-04-27 - 2022-04-29
  • Lecture
    van Baal, Yvonne; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2022) "Et flagg - den står på stranda". Funny pronouns and how we (not yet) understand them. NTNU Skogselskapet , Trondheim 2022-04-26 - 2022-04-26
  • Lecture
    van Baal, Yvonne; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2022) Change in grammatical gender: First results from Trondheim and Kristiansand. NTNU AcqVA lunch , Trondheim 2022-03-02 - 2022-03-02
  • Academic lecture
    van Baal, Yvonne; Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; Lohndal, Terje. (2022) Endring i grammatisk kjønn på tvers av generasjoner og steder. UiT Norges arktiske universitet Møte om norsk språk (MONS) 19 , Tromsø 2022-11-23 - 2022-11-25
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik. (2022) Språkblanding i amerikanorske samansetjingar. Københavns Universitet Gramino 3: Grammatik i Norden , København 2022-06-09 - 2022-06-10
  • Lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2022) Hvordan endrer kristiansandsdialekten seg?. Vågsbygd Vgs Gjesteforelesning , Kristiansand 2022-04-22 - 2022-04-22
  • Interview
    Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda. (2022) Dialektforskere. NRK Rogaland NRK Rogaland [Radio] 2022-05-03

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Kush, Dave Whitney; Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) Prosessering av partikkelverb i norsk: evidens for hybridrepresentasjonar. MoNS 17: Møte om norsk språk 2017 2017-11-22 - 2017-11-24
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) Norwegian compounds: the category of non-heads. ConSOLE XXV , Leipzig 2017-01-04 - 2017-01-06
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) Norwegian compounds: the category of non-heads. Research Group on (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languag Meeting of the Research Group on (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages , Berlin 2017-01-18 -
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) Deverbal ing-compounds in Norwegian. NTNU Aqcva-lunsj , Trondheim 2017-10-17 -
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) When two become one. How to build compounds. NTNU Indo-Norwegian Syntax Workshop 2 , Trondheim 2017-09-11 - 2017-09-12
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) Korleis set ein saman ord? Strukturelle analysar. MONS 17 2017-11-22 - 2017-11-24
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2017) On synthetic compounds in Norwegian. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Workshop on compounds , Berlin 2017-02-20 -

2016

  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2016) Norwegian compounds: linkers and categories. Indo-Norwegian Syntax Workshop 2016-09-12 - 2016-09-13
  • Academic lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2016) The possessor raising construction in Norwegian. An exoskeletal account. SynVar3 , Delhi 2016-10-10 - 2016-10-14

2015

  • Lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2015) Grammatisk analyse av setningar med possessivt objekt. Universitetet i Agder MONS 16 (Møte om norsk språk) , Kristiansand 2015-11-25 - 2015-11-27
  • Lecture
    Eik, Ragnhild. (2015) Compounding in Norwegian. Departmental seminar 2015-11-16 -

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