Grand Meeting 2005 in Leikanger

Archive

Program
Workshop for PhD students and young researchers, Thursday afternoon 25 August

Nordlyd vol. 34, Nr. 1 (2007): Scandinavian Dialect Syntax 2005, edited by Kristine Bentzen and Øystein A. Vangsnes.
This volume of Nordlyd contains written versions of presentations given at the Leikanger meeting. The journal is free and available online (only).

Downloadable powerpoints and handouts:

Main sessions:
-Presentation of the ScanDiaSyn project umbrella (plus some traits of the Sogn dialect for starters) by Øystein A. Vangsnes (ppt)
-Presentation of the ScanLex project by Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (ppt)
-Presentation by Helge Sandøy of experiences with Nordic research collaboration in language and linguistics (pdf, article version)
-Presentation of the Italian dialect syntax projects ASIS and ASIM by Cecilia Poletto (ppt)
-Presentation of the Dutch SAND project by Hans Bennis and Sjef Barbiers (ppt)
-Presentation of the Icelandic pilot project and the comparative Faroese/Icelandic syntax project by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Thórhallur Eythórsson, and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (ppt)

Workshop presentations:
-Presentation of the project Diversity in Dutch DP design by Marjo van Koppen (ppt)
-Generating a lexicon of Scandinavian modal verbs from a parallel corpus by Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (pdf)

Minutes from the meeting (pdf-version here)

List of participants

Page with pictures taken by Gunnar Hrafn

Practical information for participants (login required)

Suggestions for ScanDiaSyn topics (login required)

View of fjord and mountains from Leikanger. Photo: Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson