Research Training Seminar and Workshop:

METHODS AND TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF GRAMMATICAL VARIATION
November 28 - December 2, 2004
University of Oslo (in collaboration with the University of Tromsø)

Invited teachers:
Leonie Cornips, Meertens Institute
Cecilia Poletto, CNR/University of Padova
Jan-Ola Östman, University of Helsinki

Local teachers:
Elizabeth Lanza, University of Oslo
Kristin Hagen, University of Oslo
Sonja Erlenkamp, University of Oslo
Åsne Haaland, University of Oslo


Organizers:
Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo
Øystein A. Vangsnes, University of Tromsø

Program
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The seminar is financed by Nasjonalt forskerutdanningsutvalg for
historisk-filosofiske fag and supported by NorFA (participant stipends).

The purpose of this research training seminar is to give PhD students
and other researchers insight into the methods and tools for the
study of grammatical variation that have been developed in recent
years. There will be a particular focus on the study of syntactic
variation, both from a sociolinguistic and a broader dialectological
perspective, and the teachers have all been recruited from ongoing
dialect syntax projects. Each teacher will give two lectures of
approximately two hours.

Abstracts:

Leonie Cornips: Standardization of syntactic elicitation tasks, speakers of dialects and why acceptability judgments do not provide direct access to speakers' linguistic competence

Cecilia Poletto: Field work in formal syntax: what dialectology can provide to our understanding of internal and external grammar

Jan-Ola Östman: Constructions and pragmatics in dialectology research


A PROGRAM for the extended course is now available.

A MAP of the University. The course will take place in the Blindern part of campus. For the exact location, see the program

WORKSHOP

A small workshop will be held in connection with the seminar
(November 30, in the afternoon).

OF RELATED INTERESTED

The research seminar will be preceded by a workshop on Passive in Oslo 25-27 November and followed by ConSOLE XIII in Tromsø 2-4 December.