Naja Blytmann Trondhjem

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Current research

Last call - Greenlandic dialects as linguistic heritage: is a collaboration between University of Copenhagen, Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Greenlandic and Arctic Studies, Institute of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, Language Research Center, Ilisimatusarfik and National Museum and Archives, Greenland and National Museum, Denmark. The project aims to collect, analyse and disseminate Greenlandic dialects through interdisciplinary collaboration between Greenlandic and Danish institutions.  

Teaching in Greenlandic at the primary schools in Greenland: a collaboration between Language Research Center, Ilisimatusarfik, and Greenlandic and Arctic Studies. The aim is to investigate why about half of the graduate students at primary schools get too low grades in Greenland preventing them to start a youth education. 

Frpm 1. January 2023: Grammar and agrammatism in Greenlandic: collaboration between Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Greenlandic and Arctic Studies, Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, and Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, and North Zealand Hospital and Queen Ingrids Hospital, Nuuk, including experts of aphasia from Netherlands and France. The aim is to investigate why Greenlandic aphasia patients do not loose grammatical signs contrary to the Danish aphasia patients who loose the grammatical signs.  

Primary fields of research

My primary research is based on the Greenlandic Language and language use, in which I investigate in syntactic constructions, the use of suffixes in word formation, and fonological changes when attaching different morphemes, and how the language is changing during time. The research areas are in both syntax, morphology and morphophonology. Further, comparing with the other Inuit languages is of interess. 

• the use of derivational affixes in Greenlandic and other Inuit languages 
• the use of inflectional affixes in Greenlandic and other Inuit languages
• differences in sentence construction between dialects of Greenladic 
• princeples of word formation between Greenlandic dialects and other Inuit languages 

Teaching

• Greenlandic as a foreign language 
• General syntactic theories and Greenlandic syntax 
• General morphological theories and Greenlandic morphology
• Greenlandic dialogs and communication, progressing the skills of listening, understanding, speaking and writing. 
• Tranlations from Greenlandic to Danish and vice versa
• Greenlandic grammatical functions: arguments, semantic/thematic roles, tense, aspect and valency  

Selected publications

1. Published

   Om at finde vej i skærgården i Upernavik i Nordgrønland

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 1 Dec 2017, In: Tidsskriftet Grønland. 4, p. 330-339 10 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research

2. Published

   Verbal aspects in West Greenlandic: lexical and grammatical aspects

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 15 Jun 2017, Studies in Inuit Linguistics in honor of Michael Fortescue . Kaplan, L. & Berge, A. (eds.). Fairbanks, Alaska : Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, Alaska , p. 67-90 23 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Valens i grønlandsk

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 27 Sep 2016. 25 p.

   Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Communication

4. Published

   Distributive and collective aspect in Kalaallisut

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 2016, In: Amerindia. 38, p. 129-144 16 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   How are emotions expressed in Kalaallisut

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 2017, Le Langage de l'émotion : variations linguistiques et culturelles . Tersis, N. & Boyeldieu, P. (eds.). Paris: Peeters, p. 397-426 30 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   Markers of futurity and aspect in West Greenlandic

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 26 Jun 2014, Future Times, Future Tenses. De Brabanter, P., Kissine, M. & Sharifzadeh, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 114-137 24 p. (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, Vol. 2).

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   Repititive, iterative and habitual aspectual affixes in West Greenlandic

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 2012, In: Acta Hafniensia Linguistica, International journal of linguistics. 44, 1 (2012), p. 64–76 13 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   Kallaallisut oqaasilerineq – sumut killippugut? Ilisimalikkat atuartitsinermi atulernissaat siunertaralugu Isumasioqatigiinneq Nuuk 27. april 2009

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 1 Jan 2010, In: Kalaaleq . 1, p. 7-9 3 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal › Communication

9. Published

   Marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language

   Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 2009, In: Typological Studies in Language. 86, p. 171-182

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

10. Published

    Quantification as Reference: Evidence from Q-Verbs

    Bittner, M. & Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 2008, Quantification: a Cross-linguistic Perspective. Matthewson, L. (ed.). First Edition ed. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, p. 7-66 60 p. (NORTH-HOLLAND LINGUISTIC SERIES:LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS, Vol. 64).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

11. Published

    Fra Nuuk til ...? Hvad betyder dansk for grønlændere?

    Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 2005, Ordenes Slotte. Om sprog og litteratur i Norden: Hyldest til Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Íslands præsident 1980-1996. Kristmannsson, D. G. & Weiss, D. P. (eds.). Stofnun Vigdïsar Finnbogadóttur í erlendum tungumálum, p. 130-135 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

12. Submitted

    Greenlandic grammar

    Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 15 Sep 2021, (Submitted) Handbook of Inuit, Yupik and Unangan Languages . Oxford University Press

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

13. Published

    Onomatopoeias in Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)

    Trondhjem, Naja Blytmann, 24 Mar 2024, Onomatopoeia in the world's languages . Körtvélyessy, L. & Stekauer, P. (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, Vol. Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics (CHL) .

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review