Nikkor 35mm f/1.8g on a d7000?

Okay, say a 50mm is on a full frame. I know that the 35mm on a crop 1.5x is pretty much equivalent to the 50mm (52.5mm), but will it still have that kind of distorted wide angle look just because it's a 35mm, even though its field of view is equivalent?

No. It will look like a 50mm.

The perspective will look normal, not wide angle.
The 35mm f1.8 AF-S DX does have a little bit of barrel distortion, 1.7% according to
http://www.photozone.de/...8g?start=1

Do this.

Use gaffers tape your 18-55 mm lens at the 35 mm setting and walk around for a day or two only using that focal length. Next tape your 18-55 mm lens at the 50 mm setting and so the same. You will soon see what the limitations are with those lenses and will be able to decide.

NOTE: a 35 mm lens has little distortion on a full frame camera, but still not a good portrait lens. For shooting portraits, you need a lens like the 50 mm

It is the real wide angle lenses like 12 mm or 18 mm that can cause facial distortion when attempting to shoot portraits with them that should concern you, NOT a 35 mm on a D7000

No.

That distorted wide angle look is because it's wide angle. If it's not wide angle then there's no wide angle look. All lenses are distorted in one way or another though including normal/standard lenses.

A 35mm lens is a 35mm lens, whether mounted on a cropped camera or a full frame camera, and will retain the distortion characteristics of a 35mm lens.

It is a matter of optics. In a full frame camera, the field of view is determined by the focal length of the lens.

Since a cropped camera and a full frame camera have the same focal plane, the field of view is also the same on a cropped camera.

However, just like the focal length, cropping the photo makes it appear that the field of view has changed. But this change is due to cropping, not lens optics; hence the perspective distortion is the same for both camera full frame or cropped cameras.

The 35mm on a DX body (D7000) will have the same field of view as a 50mm lens on a full frame body.

Assuming a rectilinear lens Perspective Distortion is due to the distance between the camera and the subject, not from the lens focal length. Thus, the perspective distortion on the 35 mm lens on a DX body will look the same as a 50mm lens on a FX body.

Here's a little perspective distortion experiment I did…
https://picasaweb.google.com/...Distortion