Torbjörn Westerlund
Forskningsrådgivare|Research Advisor
- Professional title: Research Advisor
- Academic title: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Telephone: +46 (0)10-1427895
- Email: torbjorn.westerlund@miun.se
- Visitor address: Akademigatan 3, 831 25 Östersund
- Room number: U224e
- Location: Östersund
Research advisor at the division of Research and Educational support
Employed as a research advisor (and focusing on the humanities) at the Grants & Innovation Office, Mittuniversitetet (Mid-Sweden University).
Background
Ph.D. in linguistics (Uppsala University, 2013; during my time as a Ph.D.-student I was also an exchange student at the University of Western Australia, Perth, for one semester). (Master of Arts with a major in linguistics (from Uppsala University); Bachelor of Arts with a major in literature (Stockholm University).) Employed at Uppsala University 2007-2016 (as a teaching assistant, Ph.D.-student, and lecturer in linguistics (deputy); in that order). Before coming to Mid-Sweden University, I was employed by Svenska Akademien (The Swedish Academy) in the project Intensivsvenska (Intensive Swedish), and I have also been a guest researcher at Stockholm University.
Area of interest
Grammar (morphology and syntax), semantics, phonology.
Teaching and tutoring
During a 10-year-period, I taught on courses in linguistics at Uppsala University (courses both on the introductory and the advanced level). I also supervised honours students in their thesis writing.
Other information
Publications (selection): 2024. Ngarla. In: P. Stekauer & L Körtvélyessy, eds., Onomatopoeia in the World's Languages (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics, Volume 10) Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. 297-308
2019. Switch-reference and Insubordination in Ngarla (Ngayarta, Pama-Nyungan). Australian Journal of Linguistics 39(2): 174-201.
2017. Verb Classification in Ngarla (Ngayarta, Pama-Nyungan). Australian Journal of Linguistics 37(3): 328-355.
2015a. A grammatical sketch of Ngarla (Ngayarta, Pama-Nyungan). (A-PL 016.) Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. (186 pages.)
2015b. Blurred lines – when Ngarla nouns ”verb”. In: A. Malicka-Kleparska, M. Bloch-Trojnar & K. Drabikowska, eds., Concepts and Structures - Studies in Semantics and Morphology Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL. Pp. 215-230.
2013. Finite verbs in Ngarla (Pama-Nyungan, Ngayarta). Ph.D. Thesis. Uppsala university. (242 pages; ISBN 978-91-506-2335-2).
2011. Main clause TAM-marking in Ngarla (Pama-Nyungan), in comparison with two neighbouring languages. In: J. Svantesson, N. Burenhult, A. Holmer, A. Karlsson & H. Lundström, eds., Language Documentation and Description (LDD), 10:228-246. (ISBN 1740-6234.)
2009. The basic case marking of Ngarla, a language of Western Australia. In: Multilingualism, Proceedings of the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Anju Saxena & Åke Viberg, editors. (Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 8) Uppsala: Uppsala universitet. Pp. 115-126. (Avaliable online at: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:275878)
2008. Hammarström, Harald, Christina Thornell, Malin Petzell & Torbjörn Westerlund. Bootstrapping Language Description: The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic). Published online at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/ lrec2008/pdf/848_paper.pdf
2007. Westerlund, Torbjörn. A grammatical sketch of Ngarla: A language of Western Australia. South Hedland: Wangka Maya.