Andrew Weir
Om
Eg er professor i engelsk språk og lingvistikk ved Institutt for språk og litteratur. Eg tok bachelorgrad i lingvistikk på University of Edinburgh i 2008, mastergrad i syntaks på University College London i 2009, og doktorgrad i lingvistikk på University of Massachusetts Amherst i 2014. Før eg kom til NTNU i 2015, var eg postdoktor på seksjonen for engelsk ved Universiteit Gent i Belgia.
Saman med Anne Dahl leiar eg forskergruppa ForMAAL (Formal, Mental, and Acquisitional Approaches to Language).
I vår 2026 er eg fungerande programleiar for engelsk. I tillegg er eg medlem av NTNU sitt språkpolitiske utval, og medlem av programrådet for den femårige lektorutdanninga i språkfag (MLSPRÅK).
Forskning
Eg fokuserer på generativ, teoretisk lingvistikk. Eg er særleg interessert i grensesnitt (interfaces) mellom 'kjernemodulane' syntaks, semantikk, og fonologi/prosodi. Arbeidet mitt på dette området fokuserer særleg på ellipse, og da særleg setningsellipse (clausal ellipsis). Eg har også stor interesse for (mikro)variasjon og komparativ syntaks, særleg syntaktiske og semantiske trekk hjå dialekter av engelsk som skotskengelsk, og registervariasjon.
Publikasjoner
Den personlege nettsida mi har fleire detaljar (og presenterer publikasjonar organiserte etter tema), samt nokre ting som ikkje visest i den automatisk genererte lista under ('in press, to appear, submitted', og handouts osv).
2026
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Weir, Andrew William;
Haegeman, Liliane.
(2026)
Register Variation: Core Grammar and Periphery.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2025
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Schwarzer, Marie-Luise;
Weir, Andrew William;
Fabregas, Antonio.
(2025)
No ellipsis-contained antecedents: adjunct-licensed ellipsis in Spanish.
The Linguistic Review
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2024
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Bondevik, Ingrid;
Lohndal, Terje;
Weir, Andrew William;
Kush, Dave Whitney.
(2024)
Eliminating adjunct-specific conditions on movement: A case study of finite adjunct clauses in Norwegian.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
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Weir, Andrew William.
(2024)
Nominal VP anaphora in Scandinavian and English.
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2023
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Weir, Andrew William;
Kush, Dave Whitney;
Giskes, Anna.
(2023)
Incremental prediction in long-distance dependencies: Predictive mechanisms during the processing of cataphors.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
2022
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Weir, Andrew.
(2022)
Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2021
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Weir, Andrew.
(2021)
English and Englishes.
Faglig kapittel
2020
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Negative fragment answers.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Antecedentless fragments: a middle road between sententialism and nonsententialism.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Resultatives, goal PPs, and postverbal subjects: From Scotland to Belfast.
Journal of Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Introduction to special issue on morphosyntactic
variation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2019
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Søraa, Ingrid;
Weir, Andrew;
Hårstad, Stian.
(2019)
The Sound of Disney: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English accents in four animated films from the 2010s.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masteroppgave
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Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Morphosyntactic microvariation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Leder
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Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Diary null subjects: an analogy with imperatives?.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2018
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Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Structurally ambiguous 'again' without lexical decomposition: a Function Composition approach.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Cointensional questions, fragment answers, and structured meanings.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2017
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
But write what?.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
DP-be-CP constructions and the licensing of clausal ellipsis.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth;
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Object drop and article drop in reduced written register.
Linguistic Variation
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2016
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Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2016)
Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2015
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Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew;
Danckaert, Lieven;
D'Hulster, Tijs;
Buelens, Liisa.
(2015)
Against the root analysis of subject contact relatives in English.
Lingua
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
The cartography of 'yes' and 'no' in West Flemish.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
Fragment answers and 'exceptional movement under ellipsis': A PF-movement account.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2014
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Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
Fragment answers and the Question under Discussion.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
'Why'-stripping targets Voice Phrase.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2013
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Weir, Andrew.
(2013)
The syntax of imperatives in Scots.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2012
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Weir, Andrew.
(2012)
Left-edge deletion in English and subject omission in diaries.
English Language and Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Schwarzer, Marie-Luise;
Weir, Andrew William;
Fabregas, Antonio.
(2025)
No ellipsis-contained antecedents: adjunct-licensed ellipsis in Spanish.
The Linguistic Review
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew;
Danckaert, Lieven;
D'Hulster, Tijs;
Buelens, Liisa.
(2015)
Against the root analysis of subject contact relatives in English.
Lingua
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Morphosyntactic microvariation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Leder
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Antecedentless fragments: a middle road between sententialism and nonsententialism.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Resultatives, goal PPs, and postverbal subjects: From Scotland to Belfast.
Journal of Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Eide, Kristin Melum;
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Introduction to special issue on morphosyntactic
variation within the individual language user.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Object drop and article drop in reduced written register.
Linguistic Variation
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Weir, Andrew.
(2012)
Left-edge deletion in English and subject omission in diaries.
English Language and Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Weir, Andrew William.
(2024)
Nominal VP anaphora in Scandinavian and English.
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Del av bok/rapport
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Weir, Andrew William;
Haegeman, Liliane.
(2026)
Register Variation: Core Grammar and Periphery.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2020)
Negative fragment answers.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
The cartography of 'yes' and 'no' in West Flemish.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2013)
The syntax of imperatives in Scots.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2021)
English and Englishes.
Faglig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2019)
Diary null subjects: an analogy with imperatives?.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Structurally ambiguous 'again' without lexical decomposition: a Function Composition approach.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
Fragment answers and the Question under Discussion.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2014)
'Why'-stripping targets Voice Phrase.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
But write what?.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
DP-be-CP constructions and the licensing of clausal ellipsis.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth;
Weir, Andrew.
(2017)
Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2022)
Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Haegeman, Liliane;
Weir, Andrew.
(2016)
Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2018)
Cointensional questions, fragment answers, and structured meanings.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Weir, Andrew.
(2015)
Fragment answers and 'exceptional movement under ellipsis': A PF-movement account.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
Studentoppgave eller avhandling
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Søraa, Ingrid;
Weir, Andrew;
Hårstad, Stian.
(2019)
The Sound of Disney: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English accents in four animated films from the 2010s.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masteroppgave
-
Bondevik, Ingrid;
Lohndal, Terje;
Weir, Andrew William;
Kush, Dave Whitney.
(2024)
Eliminating adjunct-specific conditions on movement: A case study of finite adjunct clauses in Norwegian.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
-
Weir, Andrew William;
Kush, Dave Whitney;
Giskes, Anna.
(2023)
Incremental prediction in long-distance dependencies: Predictive mechanisms during the processing of cataphors.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
Undervisning
Eg har hatt emneansvar for fleire ulike emne her på NTNU, inkludert Engelsk språkvitenskap (ENG1102, tidl. ENG1101), Global engelsk (tidl. ENG1001), Teoretiske tilnærmingar til engelsk språk (ENG2155), Semantikk og pragmatikk (SPRÅK3200), Språkvitskapelege teoriar (SPRÅK3002) og Spesialiseringsemne i engelsk språk (ENG3110).
Veiledning
Eg rettleiar gjerne oppgåver/avhandlingar (på bachelor-, master-, eller PhD-nivå) innanfor teoretisk lingvistikk, særleg syntaks og semantikk, eller (formelle/grammatiske aspekt hjå) variantar av engelsk.
Formidling
2022
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Foredrag
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2022) Restitutive 'again': function composition, not syntactic decomposition. Semantics in Norway
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2022) Optionality in auxiliary contraction deletion in English: an interface account. AcqVA workshop
2020
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Foredrag
2019
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2019) Intra-speaker variation and the syntax-prosody interface: left-edge ellipsis and auxiliary contraction in English. Register and dialect variation in the individual
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2019) Dialect data and generative syntax: Theories and methodologies. ScoSYa "Data Hack"
2018
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2018) Left-edge ellipsis and clausal ellipsis: The division of labor between syntax, semantics and prosody. Societas Linguistica Europaea annual meeting
2017
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ForedragWeir, Andrew. (2017) La lingva situacio en Norvegio: ĉu lecionoj por la skota lingvo? [The language situation in Norway: lessons for Scots?]. Scottish and British Esperanto Congress
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ForedragWeir, Andrew. (2017) Lingvo: kio distingas nin de la bestoj (?) [Language: what distinguishes us from animals (?)]. Scottish and British Esperanto Congress
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew; Kush, Dave Whitney; Dahl, Anne. (2017) Acquisition and variation in ellipsis. AcqVA retreat
2016
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2016) Ellipsis in 'DP be CP' constructions and the syntax of embedded fragments. Workshop on Fragments
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2016) The prosodic licensing of left-edge ellipsis and implications for clausal ellipsis. Ellipsis and Prosody workshop
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2016) Phrasal pronominalization and intra-Germanic variation in predicate that-anaphora. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 31
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2016) That's that construction analysed: that be 'resultatives' in Scottish English. Linguistics Association of Great Britain
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KonferanseposterWeir, Andrew. (2016) Ellipsis in 'DP be CP' constructions and the syntax of embedded fragments. NELS 47
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KonferanseposterWeir, Andrew. (2016) Cointensional questions and their implications for questions and fragment answers. Sinn und Bedeutung 21
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KonferanseforedragBogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth; Weir, Andrew. (2016) Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions. NELS 47
2014
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KonferanseforedragWeir, Andrew. (2014) Fragment answers and 'exceptional movement under ellipsis': A PF-movement account. NELS 45