Royal Academy of Fine Arts
I do research on Nordic languages, guide language revitalization, engage in popular education and give talks.
All my life, the various variations of languages have fascinated me. Early on, I became aware of the language world that still exists in our own backyard in the form of Nordic traditional dialects, and these are now my main area of expertise.
The common thread in my research is the development and variation of the Nordic languages. In my ongoing projects I mainly explore the following three topics: Nordic historical morphology (word inflection), the development and genealogy of the Nordic traditional dialects, as well as the description of the Överkalisian language in Överkalix, Norrbotten.
My research has received awards and attention in the media. My PhD thesis became news on Vetenskapsradion, among others, and I was invited as a guest on Språket i P1 to talk about it. In the spring of 2023 I was awarded the Bernadotte Scholarship from the Swedish Academy for my study of the sociolinguistic situation of Överkalisian.
I help and guide people who are fighting to breathe new life into their languages For several years I have been involved in the nascent revitalization of Överkalisian and aided the local association Bjernna in their work. I have designed a standardized orthography for the language and presented this in Överkalix in the fall of 2023.
I teach, popularize and communicate science on my Youtube channel Academia Cervena. I give talks about my research and about my areas of expertise in scientific contexts and to an interested public.
I defended my PhD thesis at Uppsala university in 2022, where I also graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. I have previously worked as a teacher of Swedish as a second and as a foreign language as well as a language planner of Swedish at the Swedish Language Council. Since 2024 I chair the Association for Swedish Dialectology.
I live in Uppsala together with my wife and our two children. I grew up in the plains of Östergötland, and have also lived in Montréal, Borlänge and Luleå for shorter periods of time.
Monographs
Horn af Åminne, Adam. 2022. Från person till person: Avvecklingen av nordisk personkongruens ur ett diakront typologiskt perspektiv [From Person to Person: The Loss of Nordic Person Agreement from a Diachronic Typological Perspective]. (Studia philologiae Scandinavicae Upsaliensia, 21.) Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. [DiVA]
Peer-reviewed articles
Horn af Åminne, Adam. 2022. Överköḷis och Iviköḷis: Endonymer, hyperkorrektion och försvenskning i dagens överkalixmål [Överköḷis and Iviköḷis: Endonyms, hypercorrection and Swedification in the traditional Överkalix dialect of today]. Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv 2021, 144, s. 55–80. [Journal]
Horn af Åminne, Adam. 2017. Verbal kongruensböjning i sydvästsvenska dialekter [Verbal agreement in south-west Swedish dialects]. Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv 2016, 139, pp. 73–89. [DiVA] [Journal]
Theses
Horn af Åminne, Adam. 2016. När þ blev t: Om en fonologisk och ortografisk förändring i fornsvenska [When þ became t: On a phonological and orthographical change in Old Swedish]. Uppsala. [Unpublished MA thesis.] [DiVA]
Horn af Åminne, Adam. 2015. Viljen I veta? Om verbens pluralböjning i sydvästsvenska dialekter [Do you wish to know? On the plural conjugation of verbs in Southwestern Swedish dialects]. Uppsala. [Unpublished MA thesis.] [DiVA]
Other
Horn af Åminne, Adam. 2024. En standardiserad stavning för det överkaliska språket [A standardized spelling for the Överkalisian language]. Överkalix: Bjernna – Föreningen för överkaliska. [Online version 1.0 (2023)]
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