Sune Gregersen

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I am currently a Research Assistant at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, where I teach in the BA programme in Linguistics. My research focusses on grammatical variation and change in Danish and other languages. In my 2020 dissertation (to be found here), I investigated a number of changes in the verbal system of Old and Middle English, specifically involving (semi-)modal verbs like must, ought to, and dare.

Primary fields of research

• Danish morphology and syntax
• Middle English morphology and syntax
• Germanic (including Danish and English) historical linguistics
• Linguistic typology, in particular involving verbal categories such as tense, aspect, and modality
• Language change, especially analogy

Current research

• Syntactic variation in Danish dialects
• The diachronic development of the Danish inflectional passive (‘s-passive’)
• Dialectal variation in the Middle English verbal system
• Habitual constructions (such as English used to) in the languages of the world

Selected publications

1. Early English modals: Form, function, and analogy

   Gregersen, Sune, 2020, Amsterdam: LOT. 401 p. (LOT Dissertation Series; No. 579).

   Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research

2. Some (critical) questions for diachronic construction grammar

   Gregersen, Sune, 2018, In: Folia Linguistica Historica. 39, 2, p. 341-360

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. ‘To dare larks’ in Early Modern English

   Gregersen, Sune, 2017, In: Notes and Queries. 64, 4, p. 537-540

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Årsagssætninger med fordi i (formelt) dansk talesprog

   Gregersen, Sune, 2019, In: NyS. 57, p. 81-112

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review