Research at the Department of Scandinavian Languages

From Old Norse to suburban Swedish

Our research

At the Department of Scandinavian Languages the research is focused on these fields:

Philology and runology: Language history and the development of the Scandinavian languages.
Multilingualism, related Scandinavian languages and dialects: The study of language acquisition, use and variation.
Onomastics: The study of proper names and their history and meaning.
Text and Conversation Analysis: Research about how language is used.
Language structure and historical linguistics: A focus on grammar.
Swedish and Swedish as a second language with a didactic focus: How Swedish is taught in schools.

At the Department of Scandinavian Languages we have multiple organisations with publications focused on certain research areas.