About
Academic interests
- Language change
- Nordic language
- Multilingualism (especially heritage language)
- Didactics of grammar
- Norwegian in America
- Morphology (especially inflectional morphology)
- Phonology
- Morphosyntax (especially case) and verb syntax (especially verb placement)
- Historical linguistics
- Old Norse language
- Old Norse philology and runology
Courses taught
Alexander K. Lykke teaches various subjects across different educational programs, all related to Norwegian language studies or multilingualism. This includes primary school teacher education (both at bachelor's and master's levels), continuing education courses (Norwegian 1, Second language pedagogy (ASPR)), and supplementary teacher training programs (KOML). He supervises master’s students, particularly in topics related to multilingualism, linguistics, and language and grammar didactics.
Background
Associate Professor of Nordic Language at Østfold University College, January 2020–November 2022.
PhD in Linguistics/Nordic Language, UiO. Dissertation (in English): Variation and Change in the Tense Morphology of Heritage Norwegian in North America
BA and MA in Nordic language from UiO. Master's thesis (in Norwegian): Unstressed /i/ and /u/ in the Norwegian runic material after 1050 CE.
Dissemination
Language consultant for the TV series Beforeigners produced by Rubicon for HBO Nordic.
Consultant for Ravneringene (Gyldendal) (published in English as The Raven Rings (Arctis)) an award-winning trilogy of novels by Siri Pettersen.
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Lykke, Alexander Kristoffersen
; Rocker, Maike H.
(2025).
A Comparative Perspective on Language Shift and Language Change: Norwegian and German Heritage Varieties in North America.
Languages.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10100256
Natvig, David Albert; Putnam, Michael T.;
Lykke, Alexander Kristoffersen
(2023).
Stability in the integrated bilingual grammar: Tense exponency in North American Norwegian.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586523000069
Lykke, Alexander Kristoffersen
; Hjelde, Arnstein
(2022).
New perspectives on grammatical change in heritage Norwegian: Introducing the adult speaker and adolescent relearner.
Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS).
Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v12i2.3827
Lykke, Alexander Kristoffersen
(2022).
Piecing together the history of change: A diachronic study of moribund heritage Norwegian tense morphology.
Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS).
Vol. 12 .
https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v12i2.3828
Lykke, Alexander K.
(2018).
The Relation between Finiteness Morphology and Verb-Second: An Empirical Study of Heritage Norwegian.
Kühl, Karoline; Petersen, Jan Heegård (Ed.).
Selected Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8). p. 71-79.
Cascadilla Press.
https://hdl.handle.net/10852/67460
