Marit Westergaard#
Photo: Thomas B. Eckhoff/DNVA
| Membership Number: | 7134 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://site.uit.no/maritwestergaard/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2702-9615 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/marit.westergaard |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/marit-westergaard-3a5276332/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025, 01 Secretary General, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo
- 2025, 01 Adjunct Professor (20%), UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2024, 01–12 Center Director, Center for Language, Brain & Learning (C-LaBL), UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2020 - 2024 Center Director, AcqVA Aurora Center (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition), UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2015 - 2024 Adjunct Professor (20%), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
- 2009 - 2012 Center Director, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), a Norwegian Center of Excellence, UiT
- 2009, 01 Professor of Linguistics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 1988 - 2008 Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Tromsø
Fields of Scholarship
- Bi- and multilingualism
- Word order
- Information structure
- Language acquisition (L1/L2/L3)
- Syntax
- Grammatical gender and case
- Diachronic language change
- Noun phrase morphosyntax
- Heritage languages
Honours and Awards
- 2021 - 2023 Michael Sharwood Smith Award for best article in Second Language Research
- 2019 Outstanding Research Award, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2019 Member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters
- 2016 Research Award, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2016 Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2016 Member of Academia Borealis, Academy of Science and Letters North Norway
