{"id":5,"date":"2011-05-20T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/haraldr\/menntun\/"},"modified":"2019-01-06T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:31:15","slug":"menntun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/haraldr\/en\/menntun\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td><strong>Ph.D. in Linguistics, <a title=\"Cornell University Department of Linguistics\" href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell University<\/a>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>My doctoral dissertation titled <strong>Verner\u2019s Law in Gothic<\/strong> focusses on questions regarding the outcome of Verner\u2019s Law in Gothic which have been unresolved since the formulation of Verner\u2019s Law in 1875, in particular the frequent absence of Verner\u2019s Law in Gothic in comparison with the other Germanic languages. My advisor was Prof. <a title=\"Jay Jasanoff\" href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/jay-jasanoff\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Jasanoff<\/a> of <a title=\"Harvard University Department of Linguistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/%7Elingdept\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University<\/a>. Other committe members were Prof. <a title=\"Alan Nussbaum\" href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.cornell.edu\/alan-jeffrey-nussbaum\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Nussbaum<\/a> and Prof. <a title=\"Wayne Harbert\" href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.cornell.edu\/wayne-harbert\">Wayne Harbert<\/a> of Cornell University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998<\/td>\n<td><strong>MA in Linguistics, <a title=\"Cornell University Department of Linguistics\" href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell University<\/a>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In my graduate studies at Cornell, I concentrated on Indo-European and Germanic historical linguistics with special emphasis on the early Germanic languages, Old Church Slavic, and Vedic Sanskrit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995<\/td>\n<td><strong>MA in Icelandic Linguistics, <a title=\"University of Iceland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hi.is\/en\/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">University of Iceland (H\u00e1sk\u00f3li \u00cdslands)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In my graduate studies at the University of Iceland, I concentrated on Germanic historical linguistics and Icelandic linguistics and philology. My master\u2019s thesis, \u201cLanguage Contamination in Icelandic 17th-Century Copies of Old Icelandic Manuscripts\u201c (<strong>M\u00e1lbl\u00f6ndun \u00ed sautj\u00e1ndu aldar uppskriftum \u00edslenskra mi\u00f0aldahandrita<\/strong>, published by the University of Iceland Institute of Linguistics in 1999) is a study in the linguistic development from Old Icelandic to Modern Icelandic as well as an examination of scribal practice in 17th-century Iceland and an evaluation of 17th-century saga manuscripts as a linguistic source. My advisor was Prof. Stef\u00e1n Karlsson, director of the \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute in Iceland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991<\/td>\n<td><strong>BA in Icelandic, <a title=\"University of Iceland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hi.is\/en\/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">University of Iceland (H\u00e1sk\u00f3li \u00cdslands)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In my undergraduate work I focussed on Icelandic historical linguistics and received my initial training in Germanic and Indo-European linguistics. My thesis, \u201cThe Nominal Inflections in the Book of Reykjah\u00f3lar\u201c (<strong>Beygingarkerfi nafnor\u00f0a \u00ed Reykjah\u00f3lab\u00f3k<\/strong>), is a survey of the nominal inflections reflected in the language of the Book of Reykjah\u00f3lar, an Icelandic 16th-century manuscript, with extensive comparison to other contemporary linguistic sources. My advisor was Prof. Helgi Gu\u00f0mundsson.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988<\/td>\n<td><strong>Graduated from <a title=\"Menntask\u00f3linn \u00e1 Akureyri\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ma.is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Akureyri Junior College (Menntask\u00f3linn \u00e1 Akureyri)<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>At Akureyri Junior College, I majored in modern languages, Icelandic (native), English, German, French, and Danish, as well as Latin.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2001 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University. My doctoral dissertation titled Verner\u2019s Law in Gothic focusses on questions regarding the outcome of Verner\u2019s Law in Gothic which have been unresolved since the formulation of Verner\u2019s Law in 1875, in particular the frequent absence of Verner\u2019s Law in Gothic in comparison with the other Germanic languages. 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