About Knut Tarald Taraldsen
Born 1948. Knut Tarald Taraldsen is a Norwegian linguist and romanist.
Knut Tarald Taraldsen (born 23 March 1948, in Oslo) is a Norwegian linguist working in Tromsø as a senior researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL).
His work mostly concerns syntactic theory. He did early, ground-breaking work on parasitic gaps (roughly at the same time as Elisabeth Engdahl), and is also responsible for Taraldsen's generalization concerning the cross-linguistic correlation between null subjects and subject-verb agreement.
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Who is Knut Tarald Taraldsen?
Norwegian linguist
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Knut Tarald Taraldsen was born on 23 March 1948 in Oslo.
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Knut Tarald Taraldsen is a linguist and romanist.
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