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Grand Meeting 2007 at Lake Mývatn
Program
Last update: 17 August
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Wednesday 15 August
Arrivals and registration during the afternoon/evening.
20.00
Reception with silungur (arctic char)(bleikja).
Thursday 16 August
Prelude
09.00 – 12.00
Group-leader meeting
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| A section of the famous lava rock-formation Dimmuborgir at Mývatn. (Source: Wikimedia) |
09.30 – 12.00
Guided tour of the Mývatn area (for the other participants)
(courtesy of Skútustaðahreppur, the local community)
12.00-13.00
Lunch
Project reports
13.00 – 13.30
Opening and general status report for ScanDiaSyn and NORMS by Øystein Vangsnes
13.30 – 14.00
Status report for the Swedish subproject by Lars-Olof Delsing and Henrik Rosenkvist
14.00 – 14.30
Status report for the Icelandic subproject by Þórhallur Eyþórsson
14.30 – 14.50
Edisyn household report by Olaf Koeneman
14.50 – 15.10
Break
Main session I
15.10 – 15.50
Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund University):
Multiple subjects in Övdalian
15.50 – 16.30
Cecilia Poletto (Universities of Padua and Venice):
On negation splitting and doubling
16.30 – 17.10
Sjef Barbiers, Olaf Koeneman & Marika Lekakou (Meertens Institute):
Perfect Doubling
17.10 – 17.40
Break
17.40 – 18.20
Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo):
Objects binding reflexives in Norwegian
18.20 – 19.00
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes (University of Tromsø):
Pinning down fluctuating grammars:
On main clause wh-syntax in a Western Norwegian dialect area
19.30
Dinner
Friday 17 August
Workshop for PhD students and young researchers
09.00 – 09.30
Magnus Brenner (University of Helsinki):
S-forms of verbs in Finland Swedish dialects
09.30 – 10.00
Federica Cognola (University of Padua):
The loss of OV patterns in the German dialect spoken in the Fersina valley
10.00 – 10.30
Piotr Garbacz (Lund University):
What determines V°-to-I° movement in Oevdalian?
10.30 – 10.45
Break
10.45 – 11.15
Terje Lohndal (University of Oslo):
Steps towards a generalized freezing theory
11.15 – 11.45
Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Iceland):
Possessive hjá-construction in Icelandic
11.45 – 13.15
Lunch
Main session II
13.15 – 14.45
David Lightfoot (Georgetown University & NSF), invited speaker:
Parameters as cues
14.45 – 15.00
Break
15.00 – 15.45
Kristin Melum Eide (NTNU, Trondheim):
Finiteness
15.45 – 16.30
Hans Bennis (Meertens Institute):
Principles of Paradigmatic Levelling:
Variation in Verbal Inflection in Varieties of Dutch
16.30 – 17.00
Coffe break
17.00 – 18.00
Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart):
On argument supporting nominals and the mass vs. count noun distinction
18.00 – 19.00
Frederick Newmeyer (University of Washington):
In defense of the autonomy of syntax
19.30
Dinner
Saturday 18 August
Main session III
09.00 – 10.00
Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena):
On delimiting movement
10.00 – 10.45
Höskuldur Þráinsson and Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland):
The Rich Morphology Hypothesis Reconsidered
10.45 – 11.00
Break
11.00 – 11.45
Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø):
Parameters, Microparameters, and Things that go Bump in the Night
11.45 – 12.00
Group assignments
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch
Putting heads together
13.00 – 16.00
Group discussions
16.00 – 16.30
Break
16.30 – 18.30
Plenary discussion
19.00
Conference dinner
Sunday 19 August
Postlude
8:00-19:00
Excursion to the Askja volcano
20:00
Dinner – and festivities
Monday 20 August
Departures
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