Iørn Korzen
Emeritus
Primary research areas
The Italian language
Contrastive linguistics
Text linguistics
Discourse and anaphoric relations
Linguistic typology
Presentation
Iørn Korzen is professor emeritus of Italian at MSC. His research fields include language typology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with a special focus on text structure in Romance and Germanic languages. He has published more than 170 articles and books on topics such as clause combining, text complexity, anaphora, reference, and nominal determination.
In 1996 he published L'articolo italiano fra concetto ed entità (Museum Tusculanum Press), for which he was awarded the Danish doctorate (la libera docenza).
Iørn Korzen has supervised MA and BA theses with focus on Italian and contrastive linguistics or connected subjects. He has also supervised ph.d. students on similar subjects (Remo Stefano Chiari, 2000-2005; Morten Gylling-Jørgensen, 2010-2013).
Selected publications
L’articolo italiano fra concetto ed entità. Vol. I-II. København, Museum Tusculanum. Pp. 743. (doktordisputats)
Tekstsekvenser. / Reference og andre sproglige relationer. In: G. Skytte & I. Korzen: Italiensk–dansk sprogbrug i komparativt perspektiv. Reference, konnexion og diskursmarkering. København, Samfundslitteratur 2000: 65-99, 123-152 / 161-619.
L’apposizione, un costituente trascurato. Studi di Grammatica Italiana XXIV (2005). Firenze: Accademia della Crusca. 231-292.
Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages. With evidence primarily from Danish and Italian. In: H. Høeg Müller & A.
Klinge (eds). Essays on Nominal Determination. From morphology to discourse management. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2008. 79-99.
I Korzen & M. Gylling:Text Structure in a Contrastive and Translational Perspective. On Information Density and Clause Linkage in Italian and Danish. Translation: Corpora, Computation, Cognition, 2 (1) (2012): 23-46.
For a full list of Iørn Korzen's publications, please visit the CBS Research Portal.