Research projects

• The Metochites Project, Karin Hult, 1993 -

Doctoral projects

• The semantics of present stems in Ancient Greek: Infixation and suffixation, (Ancient Greek) Sofia Dmitrieva, 2024-
• Translation of Latin hymns to Church Slavonic from the 14^th century to 20^th century, (Slavic languages), Ivan Kovacic, 2024-

• Verb constructions in the recent history of Dutch. A constructional network perspective, Evie Coussé, 2024-2026

• Reading the Signs: Renaming and transformative processes in urban Rwanda, Tove Rosendal, 2022-2024

• Ukrainian-Swedish-Georgian Online Dictionary Project, Thomas Rosén, Oleksandr Stasiuk, Alla Bidniuk, Sophio Chkhatarashvili, 2022-2023

• Cassandra: Explaining and predicting short-term language change in Modern Swedish, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Yvonne Adesam, Nina Tahmasebi, Evie Coussé, 2021-2024

• Revision of the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst (General Dutch Grammar), Evie Coussé, 2021-2022

• Valency-decreasing verbal morphology in a group of six under-analysed Bantu languages, Malin Petzell, Leora Bar-El, Sebastian Dom, Ponsiano Kanijo, 2020-2023
• Variation and contact in medieval personal names, Michelle Waldispühl, 2019-2022
• DECRYPT: Decryption of historical manuscripts, Michelle Waldispühl, Beáta Megyesi, 2018-2024
• Syntax und Sprachkontakt. Gesprochenes Deutsch im Gebiet Krasnojarsk (Sibirien) [Syntax in contact. Spoken German in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia)], Christiane Andersen

Doctoral projects

• Performance in Irish English: A contrastive and multimodal approach to dialect enregisterment, (english), Ebba Nyberg, 2024-
• Coping with diglossia in medical talk. A mixed-methods study on conversations between multilingual medical staff and patients in a standard-dialect environment at hospitals in German-speaking Switzerland, (german) Lea Späti, 2024-

• Valency decreasing alternations in F20 Bantu Languages: A comparative study, (African languages), Augustino Amos Kagwema, 2022-

• Subject Inversion and Information Structure in Hehe, (african languages), Simon Msovela, 2022-

• History of sexuality in the Arabic-Islamic world: Libertinism, sexual morality and legal regulations, c. 900-1500, Pernilla Myrne, 2024-2028

• Conservative Sensibilities: Literary imaginations and the Press in Nineteenth-century Latin America, Andrea Castro och Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik, 2019-2021

Doctoral projects:

Teachers’ Beliefs about the Arabic Varieties – The Case of Mother Tongue Tuition in Sweden – (Humanities specialising in Educational Sciences), Louise Backelin, 2019-

Ancient Languages

• Virtual Space: New Being of Palaeoslavistic, Antoaneta Granberg, 2018-2020
• Digital Resources in Palaeoslavistics: towards Building a Network for Medieval Slavic Sources, Antoaneta Granberg, 2015-2017
• Libanius’ Declamations 17–23, Mikael Johansson

Linguistics

• Signs of change – Social Identity and Power Reflected in the Linguistic Landscape of Rwanda, Tove Rosendal, 2018-2021
• The rise of complex verb constructions in Germanic, Evie Coussé, Gerlof Bouma and Nicoline van der Sijs, 2018-2021
• The role of the verb phrase and word order in the expression of definiteness in Bantu languages, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, 2018-2020
• Somali and Prosodic Typology, Laura Downing, Morgan Nilsson, Maarten Mous (2016-2019)
• The semantics of verbal morphology in central Tanzanian Bantu languages: a comparative study, Malin Petzell, 2016-2018
• Linguistic Marginalization - Understanding the Process and Effects on Development Capacities, Tove Rosendal, 2014-2018
• Morphosyntactic variation in the dialects of Xhosa, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, 2014-2017
• Pride and profit: Semiotic landscaping in Galicia and the Basque Country, Johan Järlehed (2014-2018)
• Verbal Semantic Fields In Contrast, Pauli Kortteinen
• The Central African language cluster Ukhwejo: Geographic localization and linguistic identification, Christina Thornell
• Morphosyntactic variation in the dialects of Xhosa, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström 2014-2017

• The emergence of periphrastic verb constructions in Dutch. A construction grammar approach to language change, Evie Coussé, 2011-2014.

• Social and linguistic transformations of the nation: Linguistic landscapes and landscaping in Spain in an era of increasing globalization and regionalization, Johan Järlehed (2010-2013)

Literature

• Disruptive Semiotics: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction, Doctoral project (English), Catharina Hellberg, 2014-2021

• Medieval Arabic Sex Manuals: Manuscript Tradition and Reception, Pernilla Myrne, 2018-2020

• Authorship on Trial: Treason at the Dawn of the Cold War, 1944-1949, Marius Hentea, 2017-2020
• ‘Collective Motherliness’ in Italy and Spain: Reception and Reformulation of Ellen Key's Ideas on Motherhood and Female Sexuality in a Southern European Context (1900-1939), Ulla Åkerström (GU) och Elena Lindholm (UmU), 2016-2019
• The Politics of Poetics: The Testimonial Genre and the Literary Prize of Casa de las Américas (1970-2011), Anna Forné, 2016-2018

• Love, Body, and Desire: Attitudes to erotic love and women’s sexuality in pre-modern Arabic literature, Pernilla Myrne, 2015-2017

• Eloquent Women: Genre, Rhetoric and Gender in Early Arabic Literature, Pernilla Myrne, 2012-2014

• Dido´s Anguish in French 16th Century. Hélisenne de Crenne´s Version of the Aeneid: a Critical Text Edition, Britt-Marie Karlsson och Sara Ehrling
• Cratylus Sinensis: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Study of the Han Dynasty Rhapsody and Graeco-Roman Poetics, Martin Svensson Ekström
• Focusing on the periphery: Francophone literature in Swedish translation during the 20th century, Elisabeth Bladh
• Exiles in Print: Modernism and Little Magazines in Paris 1921-1939
• Shakespeare's Insides: A Systematic Study of a Dramatic Device, Marcus Nordlund
• Images and Imaginations: The History fo Arabic, African and Latin American Literatures in Translation into Swedish, Tetz Rooke, Mikela Lundahl, Cecilia Alvstad
• On the border between fact and fiction: testimonial representations of dictatorship in Argentine and Uruguay (1985-2005), Anna Forné
• The Gravitation of Memory: Literary, Social and Institutional Testimonies of Dictatorship in the Southern Cone, Anna Forné, GU, Rossana Nofal, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Máximo Badaró, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
• The Politics of Translation Metaphors: Shaping Translation Studies, Situating the Translator, Angela Kölling 2013-2016
• Mapping the Fluid Self. Water Writing as a Transcultural Strategy in Contemporary German Literature, Linda Karlsson Hammarfelt