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Grand Meeting 2009 in Älvdalen
Program
Tuesday, 25 August
14.00 Bus to Älvdalen leaves Gardermoen, Oslo Airport
19.00 Estimated arrival in Älvdalen
19.30-20.30 Dinner at Hotel Älvdalen
20.30 Official welcome by
Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund University)
Wednesday, 26 August
08.00-09.00 – Breakfast
09.00-09.45 – Øystein A. Vangsnes (U. of Tromsø):
Official opening and status report on ScanDiaSyn/NORMS
09.45-10.45 – Janne B. Johannessen (U. of Oslo):
The Nordic Dialect Corpus and Database
10.45-11.00 – Coffee break
11.00-11.30 – Maria Vilkuna (KOTUS, Finland):
FinDiaSyn: Regional Aspect of Finnish Syntax
11.30-12.15 – Hans Bennis (Meertens Institute):
Dutch developments with dialect data in the context of CLARIN
12.15-13.15 – Lunch
13.15-14.15 – Liliane Haegeman, (U. of Ghent), invited speaker:
The syntax of negation: a return to West Flemish
14.15-14.30 – Break
Workshop for PhD students and younger researchers
14.30-15.00 – Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (U. of Iceland):
Only one system at work in Icelandic?
On the binding of pronominals in PPs
15.00-15.30 – Ásbjörg Benediktsdóttir (U. of Iceland):
The New Passive: Children’s first passive?
15.30-16.00 – Zakaris Svabo Hansen (Edinburgh/Faroe Islands):
Syntactic change in Faroese: the view from Kindergarden
16.00-16.30 – Break
16.30-17.00 – Eefje Boef (Meertens Institute):
On doubly filled COMP in Dutch
17.00-17.30 – Federica Cognola (U. of Padua):
OV/VO word order in Mocheno main declarative clauses
17.30-17.45 – Break
17.45-18.15 – Mari Nygård (NTNU, Trondheim):
Analysis of discourse ellipses in spontaneous spoken Norwegian
18.15-18.45 – Björn Lundquist (U. of Tromsø):
Squeezing patterns out of the ScanDiaSyn questionnaire – the case of Norwegian “quirky” reflexives
19.00 – Dinner
Thursday, 27 August
08.00-09.00 – Breakfast
09.00-10.00 – Lars Steensland (Lund University), invited speaker:
Is there a vocative case in the Övdalian language?
10.00-10.30 – Coffee break
10.30-10.50 – Presentation of the NORMS volume Studies in Övdalian Syntax, by Kristine Bentzen (U. of Tromsø) & Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund University)
10.50-11.30 – Övdalian volume, Piotr Garbacz (Lund University):
Optional V°-to-I°-movement in Övdalian
11.30-12.00 – Övdalian volume, Øystein Vangsnes (U. of Tromsø):
The polyfunctionality of which in Övdalian
12.00-19.45 – Excursion:
12.00: Departure
12.30: Arrival in Gessi: guiding in the farmstead and tasting of local specialities
14.30: Departure for Njupeskär
15.30: Arrival in Njupeskär: walk to the waterfall (4 km) and coffee break there
17.30: Departure for Rots Skans
19.00: Arrival in Rots Skans: guiding
19.30: Departure for Älvdalen
19.45: Arrival in Hotell Älvdalen
19.45 – Dinner
Friday, 28 August
08.00-09.00 – Breakfast
09.00-10.00 –
Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), invited speaker:
Another look at the role of inflection in Scandinavian syntax
10.00-10.15 – Coffee break
10.15-10.45 –
Maia Andréasson (Gothenburg University):
Pronominal object shift –
the importance of investigating the first position
10.45-11.15 – Kristine Bentzen, Merete Anderssen, and Yulia Rodina (U. of Tromsø):
The development of syntax in micro-Scandinavians: Object Shift in Norwegian child language
11.15-11.30 – Break
11.30-12.00 – Eva Engels (Aarhus University):
A co-occurrence restriction in expletive constructions
12.00-12.30 – Pål Kristian Eriksen (NTNU, Trondheim):
A journey into parallel universes: Counterfactual conditionals in Scandinavian languages
12.30-14.00 – Lunch/shopping break
14.00-15.00 –
Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund University), invited speaker:
'Natural' null-arguments
15.00-17.00 – Group work:
Group work on the design and functionality of the Nordic Dialect Corpus and Database
17.00-17.30 – Break
17.30-19.00 – Plenary discussion
20.00 Conference dinner
Saturday, 29 August
08.00-09.00 – Breakfast
09.00 Departure to Oslo, Gardermoen (by bus)
14.00 (or earlier) Arrival in Oslo, Gardermoen
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