Johan Pedersen

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Associate professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen.

Chairman of the Kirsten Schottlænder’s Foundation board. The foundation awards grants for studies and research projects within Spanish, Catalan, or Portuguese language and culture.

Editor of the international peer reviewed journal Revue Romane, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, Spanish linguistics (level 2 journal).

Current research

• Pedersen, J. 2019. Verb-based vs. schema-based constructions and their variability: On the Spanish transitive directed motion construction in a contrastive perspective. Linguistics 57(3), 473-530 (58 pp).

• Project: La estructura oracional, Johan Pedersen, in Sintaxis del español (Handbook of Spanish syntax). Professor Guillermo Rojo (RAE), Professor Victoria Vázquez Rozas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) & Professor Rena Torres Cacoullos (Pennsylvannia State University) (eds.). Routledge 2022.

• Project: Transitive verb prefixes in Danish - morphological schematization of the clause.

• Project: Linguistic creativity in a typological perspective.

• Project: Collostructional analysis and its interpretation. 

Primary fields of research

• Cognitive and functional linguistics

• Usage-based, constructionist approaches to grammar

• Corpus linguistics

• Contrastive linguistics - language typology

• Organizational principles of clause structure

• Expressions of motion events

• The Spanish reflexive/impersonal constructions

• The relation between research, teaching and learning

 

Teaching

Courses - BA-level

• Corpus linguistics, elementary course. The use of linguistic corpora. First year.

• Spanish phonetics and phonology. First year.

• Grammar and cognition. Second year.

• Theory and history of the sciences. Second year.

• Contrastive linguistics and translation. Second year.

Courses - Masters (KA) level

• Usos y variedades del español actual.

• Translation and contrastive culture studies.

• Advanced corpus linguistics.

Supervision

• Spanish grammar and linguistics

• Contrastive linguistics

• Translation

• Corpus linguistics

Office hours: Monday 12.30-13.30