Tore Nesset#
| Membership Number: | 5435 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://uit.no/ansatte/person?p_document_id=41533 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1308-3506 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Full professor of Russian linguistics, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, Princeton University
- 2012 - 2013 Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 2011 - 2012 Group leader and researcher at the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo
- 2007 - 2008 Adjunct professor (“professor II”), University of Bergen
- 2005 - 2006 Visiting scholar, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 2001 Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego
- 2003 - 2012 Affiliate, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), University of Tromsø
- 1997 - 2004 Associate professor of Russian linguistics, University of Tromsø
- 1993 - 1996 Research fellow, University of Oslo
Fields of Scholarship
- Russian linguistics
- Cognitive linguistics
- Construction grammar
- Corpus linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Contrastive linguistics
- Metonymy and metaphor in language and thought
- Conceptual integration
- Phonology of Russian
- Morphosyntax of Russian
- Empirical methods in linguistics
Honours and Awards
- Awarded the FYRTÅRN ("Lighthouse") prize from UiT The Arctic University of Norway for pedagogical development (August 2020)
- Awarded the status of “meritorious teacher” at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Elected member of Academia Borealis, the academy of sciences and letters of Northern Norway
- Elected group leader at the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo
