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Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Italian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail verner.egerlandrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 88 03
Room SOL:L514a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am professor in Romance Languages and teach courses in Italian grammar, translation, the history of the Italian language, as well as language variation within Italian. My central area of research is Italian grammar but I have also taken interest in comparative Romance grammar as well as Swedish.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Grammatical Categories in Germanic and Romance: on the relation between interpretation and morphology (research leader)
- Norm, Variation, and Standardisation (research leader)
Books (1)
Editorships (4)
- Bacquin, M., Bernardini, P., Egerland, V. & Granfelt, J. (2020). (Eds.) Écrits sur les langues romanes à la mémoire d'Alf Lombard. Études romanes de Lund, 111. Centre of Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Molnár, V., Egerland, V. & Winkler, S. (2019). (Eds.) Architecture of topic. Studies in Generative Grammar (SGG), 136. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Bernardini, P., Egerland, V. & Granfeldt, J. (2009). (Eds.) Mélanges plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l'occasion de son 65ème anniversaire. Études Romanes de Lund, 85. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet.
- Egerland, V. & Wiberg, E. (2003). (Eds.) Atti del VI congresso degli italianisti scandinavi, Lund, 16-18 agosto 2001. Lunds universitet. Romanska institutionen.
Articles (23)
- Egerland, V. (2022). On word order and case in Old Italian past participle constructions. Isogloss, 8, 1-20. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Egerland, V. (2018). Breve panorama degli studi linguistici sull'italiano in Svezia. Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata, 1, 59-60.
- Egerland, V. (2018). Sulla grammatica di una volta. Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata, 1, 61-74.
- Egerland, V. (2013). Fronting, background, focus: A comparative study of Sardinian and Icelandic. Lingua, 136, 63-76. Elsevier.
- Egerland, V. (2012). La grammatica della narrazione: studio sull'uso dell'avverbiale SIC nella fase romanza antica. Lingua Italiana, VIII, 35-52.
- Egerland, V. (2010). I pronomi lo' e 'ro nel toscano dei primi secoli. Italia Dialettale, 71, 111-145.
- Sandberg, V. & Egerland, V. (2009). La "règle" grammaticale, l'usage et l'intuition. Sur la référence du sujet implicite dans des constructions détachées en francais et et en italien. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 110, 319-344. Modern Language Society.
- Sigurðsson, H. A. & Egerland, V. (2009). Impersonal null-subjects in Icelandic and elsewhere. Studia Linguistica, 63, 158-185. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Egerland, V. & Sandberg, V. (2006). Une règle qui n'en est pas une? Sur la référence du sujet implicite dans le gérondif français et le 'gerundio' italien. Moderna Språk, 100, 303-314. Lärarna i moderna språk.
- Egerland, V. (2005). Diachronic change and pronoun status: Italian dative 'loro’. Linguistics, 43, 1105-1130. De Gruyter.
- Egerland, V. (2004). Standardisation, Dialectal Variation, and L2: The Infinitive in a South Italian Dialect. GLOW Newsletter, 52, 94-95.
- Delsing, L.-O. & Egerland, V. (2002). Kinship Nouns in Possessive Constructions in Italian and Scandinavian. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung. Akademie Verlag.
- Egerland, V. (2002). How weak pronouns become clitics: dative loro in Old Italian. Linguistics in Potsdam, 19, 27-64.
- Egerland, V. (2002). Sull'omissione del pronome clitico oggetto in italiano antico. VERBUM, IV, 349-399.
- Egerland, V. (2000). Frasi subordinate al participio in italiano antico. Lingua e Stile, 25, 605-628.
- Egerland, V. (1999). Sull’uso del pronome loro nell’opera di Pietro Fortini. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 1, 77-94. Modern Language Society.
- Egerland, V. (1999). Sulla sintassi delle costruzioni assolute participiali e gerundive nell’italiano antico ed il concetto di anacoluto. Revue Romane, 34, 181-204. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Egerland, V. (1998). La stella di Dante. Sull’astrologia nella Divina Commedia e le sette arti liberali. Settentrione, 10, 5-23.
- Egerland, V. (1998). On the Syntax of Past Participles: Evidence from Old and Modern Italian. Glot International, 3, 10-11.
- Egerland, V. (1998). The Affectedness Constraint and AspP. Studia Linguistica, 52, 19-47. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Egerland, V. (1996). Exceptional Case Marking, the Minimalist Program, and the Aspect Phrase. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, 21, 57-66.
- Egerland, V. (1995). Speac-Head Agreement, Case Theory, and the Syntax of Participles: Absolute Participial Clauses in Old Italian. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, 33-68.
- Egerland, V. (1994). Sul verbo avere ed il participio passato nell’italiano antico: un approccio generativo. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica dell’Università di Firenze, 5, 95-113.
Book chapters (24)
- Egerland, V. (2021). The grammaticalization of SIC : On narrative particles in Romance and Scandinavian. Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, 350-369. Oxford University Press.
- Egerland, V. (2019). Apropos the topic : On topic-introducing expressions in Swedish. In Molnár, V., Egeland, V. & Winkler, S. (Eds.) Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG], Architecture of Topic (pp. 273-292), 136. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Molnár, V., Egerland, V. & Winkler, S. (2019). Exploring the architecture of topic at the interface of grammar and discourse. In Molnár, V., Egeland, V. & Winkler, S. (Eds.) Studies in Generative Grammar (SGG), Architecture of Topic (pp. 1-43), 136. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Egerland, V. (2018). First Person Readings of MAN : On semantic and pragmatic restrictions on an impersonal pronoun. In Sheehan, M. & Bailey, L. (Eds.) Order and structure in syntax II : Subjecthood and argument structure. Language Science Press.
- Egerland, V. (2018). On the interpretation of gerundival null subjects and the theory of control. In Cognola, F. & Casalicchio, J. (Eds.) Null Subjects in Generative Grammar : A Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective (pp. 199-208). Oxford University Press.
- Egerland, V. (2017). La questione della lingua : Om varför italienska är bättre än latin. In Nilsson, A., Damtoft Poulsen, A. & Svensson, J. (Eds.) Humanitas : Festskrift till Arne Jönsson (pp. 743-754). Makadam förlag.
- Egerland, V. (2013). On the grammar of kinship: Possessive enclisis in Italian dialects. In Jeppesen Kragh, K. & Lindschouw, J. (Eds.) Deixis and Pronouns (pp. 69-83). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Delsing, L.-O., Egerland, V. & Jonas, D. (2012). Enough!. In Brandtler, J., Håkansson, D., Huber, S. & Klingvall, E. (Eds.) Discourse and Grammar: a Festschrift in honor of Valéria Molnár (pp. 179-192). Lund University.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Sophia Elisabet Brenner och petrarkismen. In Valborg, L., Arne, J. & Elisabet, G. (Eds.) Wår lärda skalde-fru. Sophia Elisabet Brenner och hennes tid (pp. 284-303).
- Egerland, V. (2010). Frasi subordinate al gerundio. In Salvi, G. & Renzi, L. (Eds.) Grammatica dell’italiano antico (pp. 903-920). Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Egerland, V. (2010). Frasi subordinate al participio. In Salvi, G. & Renzi, L. (Eds.) Grammatica dell’italiano antico (pp. 881-901).
- Egerland, V. (2010). Frasi subordinate all’infinito. In Salvi, G. & Renzi, L. (Eds.) Grammatica dell’italiano antico (pp. 815-859). Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Egerland, V. (2010). Il pronome personale soggetto. In Salvi, G. & Renzi, L. (Eds.) Grammatica dell’italiano antico (pp. 401-414). Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Egerland, V. (2010). Il pronome riflessivo. In Salvi, G. & Renzi, L. (Eds.) Grammatica dell’italiano antico (pp. 450-463). Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Egerland, V. (2010). L’omissione del pronome clitico. In Salvi, G. & Renzi, L. (Eds.) Grammatica dell’italiano antico (pp. 463-467). Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Egerland, V. (2010). On Old Italian uomo and the classification of indefinite expressions. In D'Alessandro, R., Ledgeway, A. & Roberts, I. (Eds.) Syntactic Variation. The Dialects of Italy (pp. 71-85). Cambridge University Press.
- Egerland, V. & Falk, C. (2010). Si och så. Mellan narrativitet och grammatik. In Gunilla, B., Anna, G. & Henrik, R. (Eds.) Svensson och svenskan : med sinnen känsliga för språk. Festskrift till Jan Svensson den 24 januari 2010. Henrik Rahm.
- Egerland, V. (2009). La doppia base della ristrutturazione. In Cardinaletti, A. & Munaro, N. (Eds.) Italiano, italiani regionali e dialetti (pp. 99-114). Edizioni FrancoAngeli.
- Sandberg, V. & Egerland, V. (2009). La référence pragmatique et syntaxique. In Bernardini, P., Egerland, V. & Granfeldt, J. (Eds.) Mélanges plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l’occasion de son 65ème anniversaire (pp. 389-404), Études romanes de Lund 85. Centre de langues et de littérature, Lund.
- Egerland, V. (2008). Barn(o)tillåtet. Om Pentamerons förbistring och synen på barnkultur. In Beskow, P., Borgehammar, S. & Jönsson, A. (Eds.) Förbistringar och förklaringar. Festskrift till Anders Piltz (pp. 218-224). Skåneförlaget.
- Egerland, V. (2004). Standardizzazione, acquisizione e bilinguismo. In Cardinaletti, A. & Frasnedi, F. (Eds.) Intorno all'italiano contemporaneo: Tra linguistica e didattica (pp. 111-127). Edizioni FrancoAngeli.
- Egerland, V. (2003). Speculations on Adjunct Control in Swedish. In Delsing ,..., L.-O. (Ed.) Grammatik i fokus : festskrift till Christer Platzack den 18 november 2003 = Grammar in focus : festschrift for Christer Platzack 18 November 2003. Vol. II. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lunds universitet.
- Egerland, V. (2001). De fyra elementen i Dantes Paradis. In Kaatmann, C. & Meyer, O. (Eds.) Perspektiv på Dante (pp. 116-125). Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København.
- Egerland, V. (2000). Olaus Magnus i Italien. Den italienska versionen av Olaus Historia. In Jönsson, A. & Piltz, A. (Eds.) Språkets speglingar. Festskrift till Birger Bergh (pp. 419-425). Skåneförlaget.
Encyclopaedia entries (9)
- Egerland, V. (2012). Italien: Språk. Nationalencyklopedin. Nationalencyklopedin.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Accusativo con l'infinito. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 16-17). Treccani.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Aggettivo sostantivato. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 1391-1392). Treccani.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Frasi infinitive. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 656-660). Treccani.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Gerundio. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 570-573). Treccani.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Infinito. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 660-664). Treccani.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Participio. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 138-142). Treccani.
- Egerland, V. & Simone, R. (2011). Infinito sostantivato. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Enciclopedia dell’italiano (pp. 1392-1394). Treccani.
- Egerland, V., Ingemar, B. & Mikael, P. (2010). italienska. Nationalencyklopedin. Nationalencyklopedin.
Conference contributions (4)
- Egerland, V. (2017). Machiavelli och idealfursten. AIGIS : Idé og ideal, 17, 1-11.
- Egerland, V. (2012). Kärlek och vänskap i den italienska dialogen. In Karin, B. (Ed.) AIGIS (pp. 1-14), 12.
- Egerland, V. (2010). On the Interaction between Aspect and Negation in Dialectal Italian. Quaderni di Lavoro ASIt, 10, 1-17.
- Egerland, V. (2009). Il soggetto implicito nelle costruzioni non finite avverbiali in italiano antico e moderno. In Bach, S., Cecchini, L. & Kratschmer, A. (Eds.) [Host publication title missing] (pp. 274-290). Institut for Sprog, Litteratur og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet.
Working papers (11)
- Egerland, V. (accepted/in press). I pronomi lo' e 'ro nell'italiano dei primi secoli. Laboratorio sulle varietà romanze antiche.
- Egerland, V. & Jonas, D. (2016). Enough already! : On directive modal particles in English and Swedish. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax (WPSS), 97, 14-22. Lund University.
- Egerland, V. (2013). The Apropos-Topic, the Concerning-Topic and the syntaxpragmatics. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 91, 147-179.
- Egerland, V. (2011). Fronting, Background, Focus. A comparative study of Sardinian and Icelandic. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 87.
- Egerland, V. (2011). The grammar of once. On the syntactic representation of aspect and logophoricity. lingBuzz. http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/001274.
- Bernardini, P. & Egerland, V. (2006). Acquisition, variation, change: On the definite article and kinship nouns in Italian. Quaderni di lavoro dell'ASIS, 5. C.N.R..
- Egerland, V. (2003). 'Man' and aspect in Swedish. University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics, 13.
- Egerland, V. (2003). Impersonal Pronouns in Scandinavian and Romance. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 71. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund University.
- Egerland, V. (2002). On Absolute Constructions and the Acquisition of Tense. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 69.
- Egerland, V. (1998). On Verb-Second Violations in Swedish and the Hierarchical Ordering of Adverbs. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, 61.
- Egerland, V. (1996). On Pronoun Positions in Swedish and Italian, Antisymmetry, and the Person Phrase. University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics, 6.
Reviews (2)
- Egerland, V. (2013). Magnus Ulleland: Studi di italiano antico. A cura di Paola Benincà e Lorenzo Renzi. Revue Romane, 48, 351-354. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Egerland, V. (2003). Review of Benjamin Lyngfelt, Kontroll i svenskan. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 26, 1-8. Cambridge University Press.
Supervision at Lund University (3)
- Gargiulo, C. (2020). On L1 Attrition and Prosody in Pronominal Anaphora Resolution. Études romanes de Lund, 110. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Colonna Dahlman, R. (2015). Studies on Factivity, Complementation, and Propositional Attitudes. Études Romanes de Lund, 102. Dissertation.
- Guglielmi, R. (2014). Loco ubi dicitur... “La toponomastica di Vallebona e dintorni” : Un territorio di confine tra Liguria e Provenza. Études Romanes de Lund, 91. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.
Administrative
- Manager of Research and Research Education at Italian Studies
Teaching
- ITAA02, Italian: Level 2
- ITAA11, Italian: Level 1 Online Course
- ITAA12, Italian: Level 2 Online Course
- ITAB13, Italian: Literary Translation from Italian into Swedish
- ITAB19, The Divine Comedy
- ITAB20, Pinocchio - School, Fairytale and Nation
- ITAM12, Italian: Linguistic Variation in the Italian Language
- ÄITD02, Italian II

Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Italian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail verner.egerlandrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 88 03
Room SOL:L514a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20