Johan Brandtler
About me
I am associate professor of Swedish linguistics, with special focus on syntax and language structure. I mainly teach courses on Swedish grammar and phonology.
I am the editor of Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax.
Teaching
Research
My primary research focus is the interplay between syntax and pragmatics, primarily in relation to Swedish and the Scandinavian languages. I completed my Ph.D. on Negative Polarity Items at Lund University in 2010 under the supervision of Christer Platzack and Valéria Molnár. Between 2018–2020, I participated in the project The Syntax of Swedish Negation (RJ P15-0709:1), the purpose of which was to chart and analyze the syntax of negation in the history of Swedish.
Publications
Articles and book chapters
- Brandtler, Johan. 2021. Huvud- och bisaker om huvud- och bisatser. In Brandtler, Johan & Mikael Kalm (eds.) Nyanser av grammatik. Gränser, mångfald, fördjupning, 119–134. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2021. Språkhandlingar och satstyper. In Brandtler, Johan & Mikael Kalm (eds.) Nyanser av grammatik. Gränser, mångfald, fördjupning, 135–154. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2021. Räddad av sina sekreterare? Christina Piper och svenska språket. In Gröndahl, Mia & Helena Rietz (eds.) Makt och skaparkraft. En antologi om den makalösa Christina Piper, 122–135. Kulturföreningen Christinas Wänner.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2020. Vi bara testade en hypotes... Ännu mer om preverbala adverbial i svenska. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 38: 1, 59-92.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2019. The Question of Form in the Forming of Questions. The meaning and use of clefted wh-interrogatives in Swedish. Journal of Linguistics 55: 4, 755–754.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2018. Rec. av Josefsson, Gunlög & Lundin, Katarina: Nycklar till grammatik. Språk och stil NF 28, 211–214.
- Brandtler, Johan & David Håkansson. 2017. V2 eller V3? Om preverbal placering av adverbial i svenskan. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 35: 1, 11-26.
- Brandtler, Johan & Valéria Molnár. 2016. Rethinking Clausal Asymmetries: Propositional Pronoun Insertion in Hungarian. In Frey, Werner, André Meinunger & Kerstin Schwabe (eds.) Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms. Syntactic Properties and Interpretative Effects, 241–270. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Brandtler, Johan & David Håkansson. 2015. Negative V3-declaratives in Finland Swedish. Norsk lingvistisk tidssksrift 33: 2, 157–173.
- Brandtler, Johan & David Håkansson. 2014. Not on the Edge. The Syntax and Pragmatics of Clause Initial Negation in Swedish. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 17: 2, 97-128.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2014. Review of Federica Cognola, Syntactic variation and verb second: a German dialect in Northern Italy. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 37: 1, 107–111.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2014. Är språket bipolärt? Om polaritetslicensiering i svenska och andra språk. Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund: Årsbok 2013, 26–43.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2013. Evaluability – An Alternative Approach to Polarity Sensitivity. In Csipak, Eva, Regine Echardt, Mingya Lie & Manfred Sailer (eds.) Beyond "Any" and "Ever". New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity, 103–126. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2013. Konsten att säga nej. Språktidningen 1, 2013.
- Brandtler, Johan & David Håkansson. 2012. Negation, Contrast, and the Swedish Prefield. In Brandtler, Johan, David Håkansson, Stefan Huber & Eva Klingvall (eds.) Discourse and Grammar: A Festschrift to Valéria Molnár, 75–92. Lund: Centre for languages and literature.
- Brandtler, Johan and Lars-Olof Delsing. 2010. Framväxten av obestämdartikel i svenska: Definithet, specificitet och polaritet. I Byrman, Gunilla, Anna Gustafsson & Henrik Rahm (red.) Svensson och svenskan. Med sinnen känsliga för språk. En festskrift till Jan Svensson den 24 januari 2010 ,20–32. Språk- och litteraturcentrum.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2008. Why we should ever bother about wh-questions. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 82, 83–102.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2008. On the structure of Swedish subordinate clauses. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 81, 79–97.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2006. On Aristotle and Baldness – Topic, Reference, Presupposition of Existence, and Negation. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 77, 177–204.
- Brandtler, Johan. 2004. Subject Omission and Discourse Anchorage in Early Swedish Child Language. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 74, 81–120.
Monographs
- Brandtler, Johan. 2012. The Evaluability Hypothesis. The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Polarity Item Licensing. Lingvistik Aktuell 183. Amsterdam: Johan Benjamins.
Edited volumes
- Brandtler, Johan & Mikael Kalm (eds.). 2021. Nyanser av grammatik. Gränser, mångfald, fördjupning. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
- Brandtler, Johan, Valéria Molnár & Christer Platzack (eds.). 2013.
Approaches to Hungarian 13. Papers from the 2011 Lund Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Brandtler, Johan, David Håkansson, Stefan Huber & Eva Klingvall (eds.). 2012. Discourse & Grammar. A Festschrift to Valéria Molnár. Lund: Centre for languages and literature
Doctoral Dissertation
- Brandtler, Johan. 2010. The Evaluability Hypothesis. The Syntax and Pragmatics of Polarity Item Licensing in Swedish. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap A71. Lund University.