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Grand Meeting 2008 at Sandbjerg Estate
Program
Sunday 24 August
Check-in after 16.00
Evening meal between 19.00 and 21.00
Group leader meeting 17.00 to 20.00
Recommended train departures from Copenhagen Airport
12.56 (dep. Copenhagen Main Station 13.30), arr. Sønderborg 17.19
14.56 (dep. Copenhagen Main Station 15.30), arr. Sønderborg 19.19
(seat reservations strongly recommended!!)
Bus transfer to Sandbjerg provided for these two arrivals; otherwise take a taxi.
21.00
Official welcome
Øystein Vangsnes (U. of Tromsø):
Opening remarks and general status report
Monday August 25
08.00-09.00
Breakfast
09.00-09.45
Janne Bondi Johannessen (U. of Oslo):
The ScanDiaSyn database and dialect corpus
09.45-10.15
Lars-Olof Delsing & Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund University):
Report on SweDiaSyn
10.15-10.45
Höskuldur Thráinsson (U. of Iceland):
Some things we learned from IceDiaSyn
10.45-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
Karen Thagaard Hagedorn & Henrik Jørgensen (U. of Aarhus):
Report on DanDiaSyn
11.30-12.00
Hans Bennis (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam):
The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND), Volume 2
12.00-13.00
Lunch break
13.00-13.40
Maia Andréasson (U. of Aarhus):
Not all pronominal objects are born alike – the impact of accessibility
and factivity on pronominal object shift in mainland Scandinavian
13.40-14.20
Eva Engels (University of Oslo):
Scandinavian negative indefinites: Microvariation in object positions
14.20-15.00
Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (Tromsø):
On verb movement, V2, and skulu
15.00-15.20
Coffee break
15.20-16.00
Tania Strahan (U. of Iceland):
Binding intrigue in Scandinavian
16.00-16.40
Pål Eriksen (U. of Helsinki):
How to talk about the weather and other worldly matters: Expletives as
representations of the world
16.40-17.00
Break
17.00-17.50
Invited speaker Elisabet Engdahl (U. of Gothenburg):
Disappearing expletives
18.00-19.00
Evening meal
21.00-23.00
Danish movie:
“Kunsten at græde i kor” (‘The Art of Crying‘)
(Grotesque family drama in Southern Jutland dialect with English subtitles)
Tuesday August 26
08.00-09.00
Breakfast
09.00-09.50
Invited speaker Karen Margrethe Pedersen (U. of Copenhagen):
Danish dialect syntax (The presentation will be given in Danish)
09.50-10.40
Invited speaker Frans Gregersen (U. of Copenhagen):
On variation, its character and place in (socio)linguistic theory
10.40-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-11.40
Lars Heltoft (U. of Roskilde):
Main issues for a functional description of Scandinavian word order: Coded content, paradigmatic organisation, structural change and syntactic variation
11.40-12.10
Randi Nilsen (NTNU, Trondheim):
Intonational perspectives on dialect syntax
12.10-13.15
Lunch Break
13.15-
Excursion to Southern Sleswig (Nydam Boat; Hedeby; Dannevirke)
Dinner in Flensburg on the way back (Mäders Restauration)
Do not forget passport or similar documents as we are crossing the Danish-German border!
Wednesday August 27
08.00-09.00
Breakfast
09.00-09.40
Øystein A. Vangsnes (Tromsø):
What kind of Scandinavian?
On interrogative noun phrases across North Germanic
ScanDiaSyn PhD workshop
09.40-10.10
Hjalmar Petersen (U. of Hamburg & The Faroe Islands):
Gender in Faroese
10.10-10.40
Heimir Freyr Vidarsson (U. of Iceland):
Do-support in Old Icelandic
10.40-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
Eefje Boef (Meertens/U. of Utrecht):
Long-distance relativization in varieties of Dutch
11.30-12.00
Piotr Garbacz (U. of Lund):
Negative concord in Övdalian
12.00-13.30
Lunch break
13.30-14.00
Hlíf Árnadóttir (U. of Iceland):
Restrictions on passive in Icelandic
14.00-14.30
Madeleine Halmøy (U. of Tromsø):
General number in the Norwegian nominal system – with a focus on adjectives
14.30-15.00
Jacopo Garzonio (U. of Padova):
Quantifiers and Negation in Italian Dialects
15.00-17.00
Group work session (Coffee in the groups)
Groups:
a) Object Shift, Negation and other middle field features
(Maia Andréasson. Eva Engels & Sten Vikner)
b) Expletives
(Pål Eriksen & Elisabet Engdahl)
c) Verb movement
(Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson & Höskuldur Thráinsson)
d) Binding
(Tania Strahan & Hans Bennis)
e) Database Development
(Janne Bondi Johannessen)
f) Noun phrase syntax
(Madeleine Halmøy & Øystein A. Vangsnes)
17.00-18.00
Plenary session with summaries of group work & concluding remarks
19.00-
Conference dinner
Thursday August 28
Breakfast & Departures
Recommended train departures from Sønderborg:
07.57 (arr. Copenhagen Central Station 11.53, arr. Copenhagen Airport 12.15)
09.57 (arr. Copenhagen Central Station 13.53, arr. Copenhagen Airport 14.15)
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