Maud Westendorp

Maud Westendorp

Postdoc in Linguistics at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, interested in syntactic variation and change.

Publications

Verb placement in embedded sentences in Faroese

Published in Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal, 2020

I present data from the Nordic Word order Database (NWD) on word order in Faroese embedded clauses. I discuss the methods used in the data elicitation, data analysis, and present a first overview of the patterns in the dataset.

Recommended citation: Westendorp, Maud. 2020. "Verb placement in embedded sentences in Faroese." Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal 5(1): 28–42. https://journals.uio.no/NALS/article/view/8525

Code-switching alone cannot explain intraspeaker syntactic variability: Evidence from a spoken elicitation experiment.

Published in Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2020

In this paper we investigate the role of register/dialect mixing in accounting for syntactic variation within speakers.

Recommended citation: Lundquist, Björn, Maud Westendorp, & Bror-Magnus S. Strand (2020). "Code-switching alone cannot explain intraspeaker syntactic variability: Evidence from a spoken elicitation experiment." Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 43(3), 249-287. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586520000190

Nordic Word order Database: motivations, methods, material and infrastructure

Published in Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal, 2019

In this article, we present the Nordic Word order Database (NWD), with a focus on the rationale behind it, the methods used in data elicitation, data analysis and the empirical scope of the database.

Recommended citation: Lundquist, Björn, Ida Larsson, Maud Westendorp, Eirik Tengesdal & Anders Nøklestad. 2019. "Nordic Word order Database: motivations, methods, material and infrastructure." Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal 4(1): 1–33. https://journals.uio.no/NALS/article/view/7529

Transparency and language acquisition of Scandinavian

Published in Linguistics in Amsterdam, 2018

In this paper I use the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar to compare the degree of transparency in Norwegian and Swedish. Transparency is assumed to facilitate intelligibility and learnability, especially for adult L2 learners.

Recommended citation: Westendorp, Maud. 2018. "Transparency and language acquisition of Scandinavian." Linguistics in Amsterdam 11(2): 59–88. http://www.linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/download?type=document&identifier=649532

Synchronic variation and diachronic change in Dutch two-verb clusters

Published in Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 2017

In this paper we empirically investigate the relation between diachronic change and synchronic variation in the word order of Dutch two-verb clusters.

Recommended citation: Westendorp, Maud, Marieke Olthof, Jelke Bloem & Fred Weerman. 2018. "Synchronic variation and diachronic change in Dutch two-verb clusters." Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 133(1): 34–60. http://www.tntl.nl/index.php/tntl/article/view/424