After receiving his PhD from the University of Oslo, Norway, Tore Nesset has taught at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø since 1997, where he is a professor of Russian linguistics. Nesset’s research interests include cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics and diachrony. He has published several research monographs and linguistic textbooks, including “Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model” (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008) and “How Russian Came to be the Way it is: A Student’s Guide to the History of the Russian Language” (Slavica Publishers, 2015). His numerous research articles cover a wide variety of topics in Russian phonology, morphology and syntax.
Data Recent years have witnessed an information revolution in linguistics. With the advent of large electronic corpora, we now have access to enormous amounts of linguistic data. What are the implications of the information revolution for historical linguistics? How can we use corpus data to study language change? In this talk, I will discuss these questions based on case studies from Russian morphosyntax.
