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
I teach in the teacher's educations, and in courses for teachers (KFK). The spring of 2023 I teach in second language pedagogy (ASPR) and completive teacher's education (KOML).
Background
Three years as associate professor at Østfold University College (HiØ). I have mainly taught in topics related to linguistic structure (grammar) and language variation and change. This has included multilingualism on most courses, both second language acquisition and heritage language, as well as historical linguistics.
PhD in Linguistics, 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
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.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/67460
