Matti Marttinen Larsson Universitetslektor, Docent
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Namn och titel: Matti Marttinen LarssonUniversitetslektor, Docent
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6224-7872 Länk till annan webbplats.
Arbetsplats: Romanska och klassiska institutionen Länk till annan webbplats.
Besöksadress Rum B556
Om mig
Jag disputerade i romanska språk med inriktning mot spanska vid Stockholms universitet 2022. Mellan 2022 och 2024 hade jag en internationell postdok finansierad av Vetenskapsrådet, förlagd vid Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Romanistik) och Stockholms universitet (Institutionen för lingvistik). 2024 anställdes jag som biträdande lektor vid Göteborgs universitet, där jag befordrades till docent i spanska 2025. Sedan september 2026 är jag anställd som lektor vid Romanska och klassiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet.
Jag undervisar främst i kurser relaterade till spansk grammatik, nybörjarspanska, akademiskt skrivande och fonetik. Jag har erfarenhet av att undervisa på alla nivåer (grundnivå, avancerad nivå och forskarnivå) samt av undervisning inom historisk lingvistik och sociolingvistik.
Jag är en kvantitativ korpuslingvist. Min forskning kretsar främst kring språklig variation och förändring, med särskilt fokus på morfosyntaktisk och semantisk förändring. Jag närmar mig dessa frågor ur ett bruksbaserat (usage-based), kognitivt och konstruktionsgrammatiskt perspektiv. Jag använder huvudsakligen korpuslingvistiska metoder för att förstå uppkomsten och spridningen av språklig förändring samt de kognitiva grunderna för variation och förändring. Jag fokuserar i första hand på fenomen av variation och förändring inom olika varieteter av spanska, men bedriver även forskning om andra språk (engelska, portugisiska, svenska, bland andra). Inom dessa språk täcker mina studier ett brett spektrum av intressen såsom possessiva pronomen, bestämda artiklar, relativsatser och relativa pronomen, modusvariation, konstruktionell reduktion/expansion och syntaktisk längdvariation samt sociala faktorer bakom neurokognitiva rutiner. Jag är särskilt intresserad av att använda statistiska modeller (främst bayesianska) för att analysera språklig variation och förändring. På senare år forskar jag även på hur LLMs (large langauge models) kan vara behjälpliga inom korpuslingvistiska forskningsprojekt.
Samtliga publikationer
Monografier
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti, Cameron Morin & Evie Coussé. (under contract). Constructional connectivity: A cognitive theory of language change. Cambridge Elements in Cognitive Linguistics.
- Morin, Cameron , Matti Marttinen Larsson, Weihang Huang & Matteo Fuoli. (under contract). LLM-assisted corpus annotation: Methods, applications, and best practices. Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics.
Artiklar
- Morin, Cameron & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (in press). A large-scale, unsupervised pipeline for automatic corpus annotation using LLMs: variation and change in the English consider construction. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. Accepted version: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12306
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2026). Mood swings and the concomitant developments that set the stage for change: on the diachrony of indicative/subjunctive alternation in two varieties of Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 19(2): 309-345. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2026-3004
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2025). Pathways of actualization across regional varieties and the real-time dynamics of syntactic change. Language Variation and Change 37(1): 31-57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394525000055
- Bonilla, Johnatan E., Laura M. Merino Hernández & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2025). BERT’s interpretation of literalmente ‘literally’: What deep learning models can tell us about synchronic layering and diachronic shifts. Cognitive Semantics 11(1): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1163/23526416-bja10079
- Morin, Cameron & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2025). Large corpora and large language models: a replicable method for automating grammatical annotation. Linguistics Vanguard 11(1): 501-510. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0228
- Merino Hernández, Laura & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2025). How long is too long? Production-internal and communicative constraints in the coding of conditionality in Spanish. Linguistics Vanguard 11(1): 599-608. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0016
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2024). Probabilistic reduction and constructionalization: a usage-based diachronic account of the diffusion and conventionalization of the Spanish la de <noun> que construction. Cognitive Linguistics 35(4). 579-602. doi.org/10.1515/cog-2023-0112
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2024). La gramaticalización del posesivo tónico “no posesivo”: los casos de delante mío y habla mal tuyo [The grammaticalization of the “non-possessive” tonic possessive: the case of delante mío and habla mal tuyo]. Revista de Filología Española 104(1). 1429 (1-23). DOI: 10.3989/rfe.2024.1429
- Álvarez López, Laura & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2023). “A variação no uso do artigo definido antes de possessivo em variedades africanas, brasileiras e europeias do Português contemporâneo: motivações internas e externas da gramaticalização” [“Variation in the use of the definite article before possessives in African, Brazilian and European contemporary varieties of Portuguese”]. In Silvia Brandão & Silvia Vieira (eds.), Para o estudo comparativo de variedades do Português: questões teórico-metodológicas e análises de dados [Towards the comparative study of Portuguese language varieties: theoretical-methodological issues and data analysis]. Berlin: De Gruyter. 113-143. DOI: 10.1515/9783110670257-007
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2023). Modelling incipient probabilistic grammar change in real time: The grammaticalisation of possessive pronouns in European Spanish locative adverbial constructions. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 19(2). 177-206. DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-0030
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti & Miriam Bouzouita. (2022). Feminine possessive complements of locative adverbial constructions in Andalusian Spanish. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 91. 157-171. DOI: 10.5209/clac.78536
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti & Laura Álvarez López. (2022). El uso de adverbios locativos con pronombres posesivos en el español uruguayo: un análisis diacrónico y probabilístico [The use of locative adverbs with possessive pronouns in Uruguayan Spanish: a diachronic and probabilistic analysis]. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 15(1). 175-210. DOI: 10.1515/shll-2022-2059
- Bouzouita, Miriam & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2020). Variation and change in the Romance possessive constructions: An overview of nominal, adverbial and verbal uses. Moderna språk 114(3). 1-44.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti & Miriam Bouzouita. (2018). Encima de mí vs. encima mío: un análisis variacionista de las construcciones adverbiales locativas con complementos preposicionales y posesivos en Twitter [Encima de mí vs encima mío: a variationist analysis of locative adverbial constructions with prepositional and possessive complements on Twitter]. Moderna språk 112(1). 1-39.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti & Laura Álvarez López. (2017). ’Delante suyo’ vs ‘delante de él’: El uso de las locuciones adverbiales locativas desde una perspectiva diacrónica y diatópica [‘Delante suyo’ vs ‘delante de él’: the use of locative adverbial locutions from a diachronic and diatopic perspective]. Signo y Seña 31(1). 85-104.
Presentationer (* = inbjuden talare)
- Morin, Cameron & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2026, August 26-30). A large-scale pipeline for automatic corpus annotation using LLMs: Variation and change in the English consider construction. 59th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Osnabrück.
- * Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2026, May 5). Project presentation: Uncovering how speaker efficiency reshapes grammar. Romanska seminariet, Uppsala universitet.
- Merino Hernández, Laura Margarita & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2025, August 17-22). Tracing the historical development of literalmente ‘literally’ in Spanish: A multivariate approach. 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 2025, Santiago de Chile.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2024, August 21-24). On the cognitive underpinnings of actualization: A diachronic cross-varietal study on ongoing syntactic change in Spanish. 57th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki.
- Merino Hernández, Laura & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2024, June 27-29). On the role of production-internal and communicative constraints in the coding of conditionality in Spanish: a Bayesian approach. Conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANA1), Montreal.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2024, June 26-28). Construction-lexeme accessibility determines variable and changing coding length: Evidence from constructional and syntactic changes in Spanish. The 6th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP6), Vigo.
- * Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2024, April 23). Mood swings and concomitant changes: a diachronic corpus study of indicative/subjunctive alternation with Spanish epistemic adverbs of doubt and probability in Argentinian and Mexican Spanish. Linguistics research colloquium, University of Helsinki.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2024, January 10-12). Un acercamiento interdialectal y diacrónico al uso variable del artículo definido en las relativas oblicuas: nueva propuesta de análisis. Congreso Internacional de Lenguas Iberorrománicas, Helsinki.
- Merino Hernández, Laura & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2024, January 10-12). ¿Literal, enfática o figuradamente? El caso del adverbio literalmente en el español mexicano. Congreso Internacional de Lenguas Iberorrománicas, Helsinki.
- Álvarez López, Laura & Matti Marttinen Larsson. (2023, October 30-November 3). Uso variável do artigo definido antes de possessivo em variedades contemporâneas de português africano, brasileiro e europeu. XIII International Conference of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN), Curitiba.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2023, February 22-25). Había una chavala senta[da] al lao mia…: Acercamientos innovadores digitales al estudio de las construcciones [adverbio locativo + posesivo] en el español de Andalucía. Deutscher Hispanistentag, Graz.
- * Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2022, November 10). Pathways of development around the Spanish-speaking world: Cross-varietal diachronic variation and change in the 19th-21st century Spanish morpho-syntax. Colloquium Romanistische Linguistik (CoRoLi), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- * Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2021, March 31). Detecting and modelling incipient grammar change from a probabilistic perspective: the case of possessive pronouns in Spanish locative adverbial constructions. Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkley (SLaB). University of California, Berkeley.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2019, June 26–28). Investigating morphological variation on Twitter: Feminine possessive complements of locative adverbial constructions in Peninsular Spanish varieties. The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 10, Leeuwarden.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2018, June 27-29). Feminine morphology in possessive complements of adverbial constructions in European Spanish varieties. Possessive Constructions in Romance, Ghent.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2018, May 24-25). Adverbial constructions such as 'encima mía' in Andalusian Spanish: Data from Twitter. Investigando las hablas andaluzas: New approaches to Andalusian Spanish, Innsbruck.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2018, January 12). Quiero dormir pero el prof está delante mío: Analyzing the morphosyntactic variation between possessive and prepositional complements in Spanish adverbial locatives with Twitter data. Hispanic Linguistics symposium Syntactic Variation. A pragmatic view, KU Leuven.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti. (2017, October 26). On the morphosyntactic variation in adverbial locative phrases in Spanish diatopic and sociolinguistic varieties. DiaLing Talks, Ghent University.
- Marttinen Larsson, Matti & Laura Álvarez López. (2017, July 24-28). ’Delante suyo’ vs ‘delante de él’: El uso de las locuciones adverbiales locativas desde una perspectiva diacrónica y diatópica. XVIII Congreso de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL), Bogotá.
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