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Grand Meeting 2005 in Leikanger

Program


Wednesday 24 August

13:00 - 16:00
Registration at Neptun Hotell in Bergen

16:30
Departure from Bergen to Leikanger by express boat (from Strandkaiterminalen)

20:45
Arrival at Leikanger quay

21:00
Arrival at Sognefjord Hotel; check in and evening meal


Thursday 25 August

Meeting site: Statens hus

09:00
Opening and welcome address by County Governor Oddvar Flæte

09:15
Presentation of the ScanDiaSyn umbrella (incl. NORMS and ScanLex) (by Vangsnes, Svenonius, and Hrafnbjargarson)

10:15
Prof. Helge Sandøy on past experiences from Nordic research collaboration in language research

10:45
Coffee

11:00
Presentation of ASIS and ASIM (by Poletto)

11:45
Presentation of SAND and European Dialect Syntax (by Barbiers and Bennis)

12:30
Lunch

13:30 - 19:00
Workshop for PhD students and young researchers

19:00
Dinner


Friday 26 August

Meeting site: Statens hus

09:00
Lecture: Ann-Marie Ivars on the structure of noun phrases in an Österbotten dialect

10:00
Experiences from the Icelandic pilot project on data collection (by Thráinsson, Eythórsson, Jónsson, and Svavarsdóttir)

10:45
Coffee

11:00
Presentation of ScanDiaSyn topics and a draft of the questionnaire (see here for some background material); general discussion of methodology etc.

12:30
Lunch

13:30
Excursion by boat to Vangsnes and Balestrand; dinner at Kvikne’s Hotel in Balestrand

22:30
Return to Leikanger/Hermansverk and the hotel


Saturday 27 August

Meeting site: Statens hus

09:00
Work in groups on the questionnaire and related matters

12:30
Lunch

13:30
Lecture: Peter Svenonius on “The Verb-Particle alternation in the Scandinavian languages”

14:30
Summaries of the group work

15:30
Break

16:00
International collaboration (by Bennis)

17:00
Leisure

19:00
Closing dinner at Henjatunet


Sunday 28 August

08.00 ––>
Breakfast and departures from Leikanger