Photo: Janne Bondi Johannesen

This year, we have invited Marit Westergaard to give the eleventh annual Einar Haugen Lecture! She will give a talk on 'Amerikanorsk', and address some  fundemental issues in the study of heritage languages and multilingualism.

This lecture takes place on Tuesday, September 26, at 14:15–16:00 (CEST) at Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Auditorium 5. The lecture will also be live streamed. Hope to see you there!

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Photo: Marit Westergaard

I årets Einar Haugen-forelesning 'Amerikanorsk' and other heritage languages: Acquisition, Variation & Attrition, vil professor Marit Westergaard diskutere faktorer som bidrar til utviklingen av arvespråk, med eksempler fra egen forskning.

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Einar Haugen (1906–1994) was born into a Norwegian family in the US and grew up bilingually. His fascination with language led him to a decades-long career in language and linguistics. Haugen's influential works contributed to the then emerging field of sociolinguistics, for which he is credited for having had an important impact, particularly in the domain of language policy. The annual Einar Haugen Lecture pays tribute to this eminent Norwegian-American scholar and celebrates linguistic diversity.