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25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics

Workshop 1:

Language Change in Real Time Frans Gregersen (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen)

Helge Sandøy (University of Bergen)

Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland)

Monday 13

th May 2013

11:30-12:00

Tore Kristiansen (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen)

Language Attitudes in Real Time

12:00-12:30

Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland)

The Folk Linguistics of Phonological Variation in Icelandic and Faroese

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Janus Spindler Møller (University of Copenhagen) & Liva Hyttel-Sørensen (University of

Copenhagen)

Metalinguistic Attitudes in Studies of Language Use and Language Development

14:30-15:00

Edit Bugge (University of Bergen)

Language Change in Real Time or Failed Intergenerational Language Transmission?

60 years of recordings from one Romsdal family

15:00-15:30

Frans Gregersen (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen)

Apparently a Good Idea? Age grading, apparent time and real time in the case of the raising

of [ɛ] in Copenhagen from 1986-87 to 2006-07

15:30-16:00

Margrét Guðmundsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Linguistic Temptations - How tempting are different phonological changes in Icelandic?

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Marie Maegaard (University of Copenhagen) & Torben Juel Jensen (University of

Copenhagen)

Participles in Jutland - A real time study of regionalization and standardization

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17:00-17:30

Matthew Whelpton (University of Iceland), Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland)

& Þórhallur Eyþórsson (University of Iceland)

Grammatical Change in Real Time? The New Impersonal/Passive in Icelandic

17:30-18:00

Tanya Karoli Christensen (University of Copenhagen)

Socially Significant Semantic Variation - On a shift in young people’s use of epistemic

adverbs in modern spoken Danish

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:30-10:00

Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland)

Testing an “Apparent Time Prediction” in Real Time

10:00-10:30

Ragnhild Anderson (University of Bergen)

From Teens to Grownups - A real time study in a suburb of Bergen

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Randi Neteland (University of Bergen)

Longitudinal Studies of New Dialect Formation - A study of industrial towns in Western

Norway

11:30-12:00

Helge Sandøy (University of Bergen)

Sources of Dialect Change

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Workshop 2:

Foundations of Language Standardization Ásta Svavarsdóttir (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

15:00-15:30

Magnus Breder Birkenes (Philipp University of Marburg) & Jürg Fleischer (Philipp

University of Marburg)

The neuter singular as a gender resolution form: the differing cases of Norwegian (Nynorsk)

and German standardization

15:30-16:00

Ari Páll Kristinsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

Shaky foundations of standardization or tempest in the Icelandic teapot?

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Vanessa Isenmann (University of Iceland)

The impact of CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) on Icelandic written language

17:00-17:30

Kristín Bjarnadóttir (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) & Jón Friðrik

Daðason (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

Standardization, prescription, description and theory: Icelandic inflection

Wednesday 15th

May 2013

11:00-11:30

Jóhannes Bjarni Sigtryggsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

Phonological and morphological variants in 19th century Icelandic

11:30-12:00

Stephan Elspaß (University of Salzburg) & Konstantin Niehaus (University of Salzburg)

Exploring the standardisation of a modern pluriareal language. Proposals for the use of

newspaper texts in historical linguistics

12:00-12:30

Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland)

Variation in embedded verb-adverb placement as a mirror to 19th century standardisation

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LUNCH

PLENARY SPEAKER

15:00-15:30

Cecilia Hedlund (SOFI, Uppsala)

The South Lappish Book Language – an attempt to create a standard Sámi language in the

18th century

15:30-16:00

Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmus University College Brussels) & Gijsbert

Rutten (Leiden University)

Death and afterlife of bipartite negation in Dutch. Language change and the effectiveness of

norms

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Doris Stolberg (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim)

When a standard language goes colonial: Language attitudes, language planning, and

destandardization during German colonialism

17:00-17:30

Veturliði Óskarsson (Uppsala University)

Loanwords in Icelandic 19th century private letters

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Workshop 3:

Abstractness in Phonology Haukur Þorgeirsson (University of Iceland)

Wednesday 15th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø)

English nasalized vowels, and abstract underlying representations in Optimality Theory

9:30-10:00

Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland)

Structure preservation and morphophonemics

10:00-10:30

Markus Pöchtrager (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul)

Beyond the Segment

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Haukur Þorgeirsson (University of Iceland)

The case against poetic evidence for abstract phonology

11:30-12:00

Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (University of British Columbia)

Alternations, allomorphy and abstractness: Icelandic U-Umlaut revisited

12:00-12:30

Jón Símon Markússon (University of Iceland)

Does u-umlaut have anything to do with u? The case against phonological interpretation of

a/ö alternations in Icelandic

LUNCH

PLENARY SPEAKER

15:00-15:30

Pavel Iosad (University of Ulster)

Phonetic grounding for substancefree features: revisiting laryngeal realism

15:30-16:00

Kevin Gabbard (University of Tromsø)

Evidence for Radical Abstractness in Somali

COFFEE

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16:30-17:00

Alexander Piperski (Moscow State University)

The Study of Linguistic Complexity as a Challenge for Phonology

17:00-17:30

Linda Heimisdóttir (Cornell University)

The Role of Syllable Structure in the Distribution of Icelandic Aspiration

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Workshop 4:

Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation Anton Karl Ingason (University of Pennsylvania)

Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

15:00-15:30

Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University) & Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University)

Indefinite subjects and negation in Appalachian English

15:30-16:00

Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir (University of Iceland)

By-phrases in the new passive

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)

Corpus evidence for diachronic shifts in persistence asymmetries

17:00-17:30

Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan)

Bridging the Gap: Grammatical and Non-Grammatical Factors in Phonological Variation

17:30-18:00

Iris Edda Nowenstein (University of Iceland)

Intraspeaker variation in subject case: Icelandic

Wednesday 15th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle University) & Josef Fruehwald (University of Pennsylvania):

Optionality is Stable Variation is Competing Grammars

9:30-10:00

Marit Westergaard (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

The acquisition of Linguistics Variation: What is and isn’t innate?

10:00-10:30

Christina Tortora (City University of New York)

A multiple grammars approach to intraspeaker variation in verb movement in English

questions

COFFEE

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11:00-11:30

Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge)

Towards a parameter hierarchy for alignment

11:30-12:00

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & Stellenbosch University), Ian Roberts

(University of Cambridge) & Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge)

Mafioso Parameters and the Limits of Syntactic Variation

12:00-12:30

Björn Lundquist (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Covariation without parameters: on the loss of argumental simplex reflexives

LUNCH

PLENARY SPEAKER

15:00-15:30

Caitlin Light (The University of York)

On the “variable” behaviour of object topicalization in Germanic.

15:30-16:00

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) & Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle University)

Variation in the structure of subordinate clauses and the instability of VtoT in Scandinavian

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Øystein Vangsnes (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Variation and change in indexicals by Nanosyntax

17:00-17:30

Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)

Differentiating core and peripheral syntactic data using algebraic methods

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Workshop 5:

Information structure in Scandinavian languages Elisabet Engdahl (University of Gothenburg)

Maia Andréasson (University of Gothenburg)

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

15:00-15:30

Gerlof Bouma (University of Gothenburg)

The role of the preverbal position in Swedish, Dutch and German presentational

Constructions

15:30-16:00

Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben-Gurion University)

The information structure of superiority

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Valéria Molnár (Lund University)

Stylistic Fronting and Discourse

17:00-17:30

Anisa Schardl (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Structured QUD: evidence from a discourse particle in Finnish

17:30-18:00

Trine Egebakken (University of Oslo)

Topicalization of the VP-anaphor det in spoken Norwegian

Wednesday 15th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Åshild Søfteland (University of Oslo)

The information structure of cleft constructions in Norwegian spontaneous speech

9:30-10:00

Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Akureyri)

Embedded topicalization and verb/adverb fronting in the Scandinavian languages

10:00-10:30

Filippa Lindahl (University of Gothenburg) & Elisabet Engdahl (University of Gothenburg)

Continuing and expanding topics

COFFEE

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11:00-11:30

Kristine Bentzen (University of Tromsø), Merete Anderssen (University of Tromsø) &

Christian Waldmann (Umeå University)

Object Shift in spoken Mainland Scandinavian

11:30-12:00

Bjarne Ørsnes (Copenhagen Business School)

Information structure and non-canonical complements

12:00-12:30

Maia Andréasson (University of Gothenburg)

Accessibility and contrast in North Germanic object shift

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Workshop 6:

Language Change and Linguistic Variation in the Medieval North Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland)

Monday 13th

May 2013

11:30-12:00

Ivar Berg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))

The marked case: A case study in morphological change

12:00-12:30

Javier Martin Arista (University of La Rioja)

Semantic compatibiltiy in Old English suffixation

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Ulla Stroh-Wollin (Uppsala University)

The definite suffix: different origins - uniform outcome

14:30-15:00

Kristina Kotcheva (University of Konstanz) & Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz)

Prosody in historical corpora: Evidence from North Germanic

15:00-15:30

Yvonne Adesam (University of Gothenburg), Malin Ahlberg (University of Gothenburg),

Peter Andersson (University of Gothenburg), Gerlof Bouma (University of Gothenburg),

Martin Hammarstedt (University of Gothenburg) & Jonatan Uppström (University of

Gothenburg).

Towards historical e-linguistics for Swedish

15:30-16:00

Aaron Freeman (University of Pennsylvania)

On the Loss of the Instrumental Case in Old English

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Giovanni Verri (University of Iceland)

Transcribing a 14th Century text in the late 1680es

17:00-17:30

Raquel Vea Escarza (University of La Rioja)

Meaning construction and secondary lexical functions. The formation of Old English nouns

and adjectives

17:30-18:00

Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland)

Medieval Orthography and Language Change in Real Time

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Workshop 7:

Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives Alexander Pfaff (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Monday 13th

May 2013

11:30-12:00

Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam)

Adjectival positions in Germanic and Romance

12:00-12:30

Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica) & Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica)

Some adjectives that appear even higher than numerals

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Paweł Rutkowski (University of Warsaw)

Postnominal adjectives in Polish

14:30-15:00

Melania S. Masià (ILLA-CSIC)

What’s in prenominal Position? Non-intersective adjectives in Spanish

15:00-15:30

Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart)

Restrictive adjectival modification and nominal ellipsis

15:30-16:00

Harry Perridon (University of Amsterdam)

Superlatives and definiteness

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Julia Bacskai-Atkari (University of Potsdam)

Extended projections of adjectives and comparative deletion

17:00-17:30

Desalegn Workneh (University of Tromsø)

Definiteness concord in Semitic and Scandinavian

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Antonio Fábregas (University of Tromsø)

Towards a syntactic account of affix combinations- deadjectival nouns and denominal

adjectives

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9:30-10:00

Tabea Ihsane (University of Geneva) & Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam)

Gender agreement in French and phase theory

10:00-10:30

Giuliana Giusti (University Ca' Foscari Venice)

Is AP a phase?

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Jim Wood (Yale University) & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Pennsylvania)

Icelandic deverbal adjectives and case-alternations

11:30-12:00

Alexander Pfaff (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Strong inflection in Icelandic

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Workshop 8:

Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Germanic Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen)

Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen)

Carlee Arnett (University of California UC Davis)

Monday 13th

May 2013

11:30-12:00

Beatrice Primus (University of Cologne)

Agentivity and Telicity: Variation with Intransitive Verbs

12:00-12:30

Carlee Arnett (University of California) & Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen)

Motion Verbs in Old Saxon with the Oblique Subject Construction: A Semantic Analysis

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)

The emergence of English reflexive verbs: An analysis based on the Oxford English

Dictionary

14:30-15:00

Robert Cloutier (University of Amsterdam)

Old English hātte/hātton: Anomalous relic or integrated verbal forms?

15:00-15:30

Matthew Whelpton (University of Iceland)

Icelandic and the Typology of Resultatives

15:30-16:00

Liz Christie (Carleton University) & Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)

The argument status of result phrases

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland)

New perspectives on word order variation in Icelandic ditransitives: a diachronic corpus

study

17:00-17:30

Timothy Colleman (Ghent University)

The emergence of the Dutch prepositional dative construction

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17:30-18:00

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge/Stellenbosch University)

One peculiarity leads to another: the negative origins of Afrikaans embedded wh-

V2

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Willem Hollmann (Lancaster University)

Word classes in English and Dutch: Listening to phonological evidence

9:30-10:00

Eric Lander (Ghent University)

What Gothic can tell us about the origins of the NWGmc reinforced demonstrative

10:00-10:30

Marc Pierce (University of Texas at Austin) & Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin)

Gender assignment in Texas German

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin), Alyson Sewell (University of Wisconsin), Joshua

Bosquette (University of Wisconsin), Benjamin Frey (University of Wisconsin), Daniel

Nützel (Indiana University-Purdue University) & Michael Putnam (Penn State University)

Cousins growing closer? Variation and change in American German and American English

gapping

11:30-12:00

Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen), Stephen Mark Carey (University of Minnesota,

Morris) & Adam Oberlin (University of Bergen)

Explaining Variation between the Accusative and Dative Subject Constructions in Early

Germanic

12:00-12:30

Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen), Carlee Arnett (University of California), Stephen

Mark Carey (University of Minnesota, Morris), Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen),

Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) & Gard B. Jenset (Bergen University College,

Oxford University)

The Evolution of Dative Subjects from Proto-Germanic to the Earliest Germanic Daughters

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Workshop 9:

Sign Linguistics Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland)

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Graham H. Turner (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Sign Linguistics and Deaf Capital

9:30-10:00

Paweł Rutkowski (University of Warsaw), Joanna Łacheta (University of Warsaw), Piotr

Mostowski (University of Warsaw), Sylwia Łozińska (University of Warsaw) & Joanna

Filipczak (University of Warsaw).

What Corpus Data Can and Cannot Tell Us about Sign Language.

10:00-10:30

Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir (Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing,

Iceland) & Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland)

Why is the SKY BLUE? On color signs in Icelandic sign Language

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Monia Ben Mlouka (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)

Pointing gestures: variations, interpretations and detection

11:30-12:00

Caroline Bogliotti (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, Laboratoire MODYCO,

CNRS UMR7114) & Laetitia Puissant-Schontz (La Rochelle)

Assessing morphosyntactic skills in French Sign Language

12:00-12:30

Jana Hosemann (University of Göttingen) & Annika Herrmann (University of Göttingen)

Do signers activate „Maus“ while seeing ? Second language activation

during first language processing

LUNCH

PLENARY SPEAKER

15:00-15:30

Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen) & Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam)

A Natural History of Sign Language Negation

15:30-16:00 Vibeke Bø (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)

Verb Sandwich Constructions in Norwegian Sign Language

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COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir (University of Iceland) & Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of

Iceland)

Wh-questions and V2 in ÍTM

17:00-17:30

Pawel Rutkowski (University of Warsaw), Sylwia Łozińska (University of Warsaw), Joanna

Łacheta (University of Warsaw) & Małgorzata Czajkowska-Kisil (University of Warsaw).

Is PJM SVO or SOV?

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Workshop 10:

Syntactic Variation in Scandinavia Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (Lund University)

Jim Wood (Yale University)

Monday 13th

May 2013

11:30-12:00

Irene Franco (Leiden University) & Eefje Boef (Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin)

On the morphosyntax of complementizertrace effects

12:00-12:30

Dianne Jonas (University of Frankfurt)

Embedded Verb Second in Faroese

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Marit Julien (Lund University)

The Force of V2 revisited

14:30-15:00

Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (Lund University)

Swedish Case Marking

15:00-15:30

Jeffrey Parrott (Visiting Researcher, LANCHART Centre (DGCSS), University of

Copenhagen)

Fieldwork report on case variation in northern Sweden and Bornholm

15:30-16:00

Jim Wood (Yale University)

Moving dependent accusatives into the subject position

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Florian Schäfer (University of Stuttgart)

The status of Burzio's Generalization in the New Passive and in Fate Accusatives

17:00-17:30

Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo)

Long passives in Norwegian

17:30-18:00

Anton Karl Ingason (University of Pennsylvania)

The Icelandic Causation of Experience Construction

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Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Mari Nygård (University College in Trondheim) & Tor A. Åfarli (Norwegian University of

Science and Technology (NTNU))

An Analysis of Variation and Stability in Gender Assignment to Nouns

9:30-10:00

Ivona Kučerova (McMaster University)

On the role of local movement in LongDistance Agreement in Icelandic

10:00-10:30

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University)

Adverbs and the scope of negation in questions and answers

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Workshop 11:

Syntactic Issues in Language Acquisition Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Wednesday 15th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Nina Hyams (University of California (UCLA)) & Jessica Rett (University of California

(UCLA))

Copy raising and evidentiality: A view from child language.

9:30-10:00

Sonja Eisenbeiss (University of Essex)

On the acquisition of possessives in English and other languages.

10:00-10:30

Margreet Van Koert (University of Amsterdam), Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University of

Nijmegen), Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam) & Aafke Hulk (University of

Amsterdam).

A reinterpretation of the Quantificational Asymmetry.

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Aviya Hacohen (University of Cyprus) & Jeannette Schaeffer (University of Amsterdam).

On the grammatical mass/count distinction in Hebrew child language – Language Change?

11:30-12:00

Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Acquisition of the New Impersonal Construction in Icelandic.

12:00-12:30

Cecile Mckee (University of Arizona), Dana McDaniel (University of Southern Maine) &

Merrill Garrett (University of Arizona).

Children´s sentence-planning seen through dysfluency and rate data.

LUNCH

PLENARY SPEAKER

15:00-15:30

María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez (The National Distance Education University (UNED)) &

Ismael Iván Teomiro García (The National Distance Education University (UNED)).

The acquisition of low applicatives and dative “se” in L1 Spanish.

15:30-16:00

Yulia Rodina (CASTL, University of Tromsø) & Marit Westergaard (CASTL, University of

Tromsø).

On the role of input in bilingual Norwegian/Russian acquisition of grammatical gender.

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COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Kristine Bentzen (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual acquisition: How English can become a V2 language.

17:00-17:30

Sigríður Björnsdóttir (University of Iceland)

The acquisition of verb second in Icelandic as a Second Language.

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Workshop 12:

Argument Realisation of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE Verbs in

Functionally Motivated Approaches Gudrun Rawoens (University of Gent)

Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, Dublin)

Elke Diedrichsen (Google Labs, European Headquarters, Dublin)

Ilona Tragel (University of Tartu)

Monday 13th

May 2013

11:30-12:00

Gudrun Rawoens (University of Gent), Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown,

Dublin), Elke Diedrichsen (Google Labs, European Headquarters, Dublin) & Ilona Tragel

(University of Tartu)

Issues with argument realisation and syntactic variation of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs

in functionally motivated approaches

12:00-12:30

Ruprecht von Waldenfels (University of Bern)

Grammaticalized GIVE in Slavic between drift and contact: causative, modal, imperative and

mood

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Jeremy Collins (Radboud University)

‘Give’ and semantic Maps

14:30-15:00

Foong Ha Yap (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Weirong Chen (University of Hong

Kong) & Tak-Sum Wong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Valence-reducing phenomena concerning GIVE and TAKE in Chinese

15:00-15:30

Natalia Levshina (Phillips University of Marburg), Thomas Mayer (Phillips University of

Marburg) & Michael Cysouw (Phillips University of Marburg)

GIVE it a go: TAKE parallel corpora, PUT some statistics, and GET cross‐linguistic

comparisons!

15:30-16:00

XuPing Li (CRLAO, EHESS, Paris)

HOLD-OBTAIN-TAKE as GIVE in Gan Chinese

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Aoife Finn (Trinity College Dublin)

Complex issues in the realisation of GIVE and TAKE verbs in Māori

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17:00-17:30

Jaakko Leino (University of Helsinki)

Deontic modality and agentivity Or why’give’ and ’get’ have modal and permissive meanings

in Finnish but ‘take’ does not?

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Ewa D. Zakrzewska (University of Amsterdam)

GIVE in Bohairic Coptic

9:30-10:00

Sing Sing Ngai (EHESS, Paris)

The argument structure, multi-functionality and grammaticalisation pathways of the GET

verb in the Shaowu dialect

10:00-10:30

Elitzur Dattner (Tel Aviv University)

Two Ways of Giving in Hebrew: A Construction Grammar Account of Hebrew Dative

Constructions

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

John Newman (University of Alberta)

Holistic giving: Towards a unified account of the behavior of GIVE predicates

11:30-12:00

Bruno Jone (Trinity College Dublin)

Morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of verb GIVE in Lithuanian

12:00-12:30

Külli Habicht (University of Tartu) & Ilona Tragel (University of Tartu)

Estonian võtma ’take’ in two infinitive construtions

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General Session - Syntax

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Kristin Melum Eide (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) & Guro

Busterud (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))

Binding of reflexives in second language acquisition: The relevance of finiteness morphology

9:30-10:00

Anna Wolleb (University of Tromsø)

Crosslinguistic priming in Norwegian-English bilingual children

10:00-10:30

Natalia Mitrofanova (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Learning to talk about motion and space: a pilot study of early locative utterances in Russian

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Joost Kremers (University of Göttingen)

Clitics in a parallel architecture

11:30-12:00

Anne Bjerre (University of Southern Denmark)

Danish Non-specific Free Relatives

LUNCH

PLENARY

15:00-15:30

Matthew Reeve (UCL)

Ellipsis without movement in premodified reduced it-clefts

15:30-16:00

Serge Minor (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Phi-features and Indices on Pronouns

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Peter Svenonius (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Dative Case Licensers in Four Nordic Languages

17:00-17:30

Tammer Castro (University of Tromsø)

An alternative perspective on the Interface Hypothesis: the case of attrition in Brazilian

Portuguese

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17:30-18:00

Ane Odria (University of the Basque Country), Beatriz Fernández (University of the Basque

Country (UPV/EHU)) & Milan Rezac (CNRS-IKER UMR 5478)

When Basque and Spanish met: a micro- and macrocomparative approach to DOM

Wednesday 15th

May 2013

9:00-9:30

Marit Julien (Lund University)

High and low inceptives in North Sámi

9:30-10:00

Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo)

Two imperative types in all the Scandinavian languages

10:00-10:30

Kristin Melum Eide (Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU)) & Arnstein

Hjelde (Østfold University College)

V2 and non-V2 in Norwegian varieties spoken in the American Midwest

COFFEE

11:00-11:30

Emilio Servidio (University of Siena)

Italian polarity fragments and the nature of nonsententials

11:30-12:00

Christine Meklenborg Salvesen (University of Oslo)

Topics and verb movement in Norwegian

12:00-12:30

Serge Minor (CASTL, University of Tromsø) & Natalia Mitrofanova (CASTL, University of

Tromsø)

Locative Modifiers and the Event Structure of Prefixed Verbs in Russian

LUNCH

PLENARY

15:00-15:30

Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben Gurion University) & Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University)

Prosody – a source of word-order microparameters

15:30-16:00

Ismael Teomiro (The National Distance Education University (UNED))

Low applicatives that take scope over denominal verbs

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General Session - Phonology

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

15:00-15:30

David Eddington (Brigham Young University)

An Experimental Approach to Ambisyllabicity in English

15:30-16:00

Klaus Geyer (University of Southern Denmark)

Systematising the diphthongs of Finnish by using their static and dynamic characteristics

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Anja Schüppert (University of Groningen), Nanna Haug Hilton (University of Groningen),

Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen) & Vincent Van Heuven (Leiden University)

Making sense of sloppy speech: Do Danish-speaking listeners behave differently than Dutch-

speaking?

17:00-17:30

Hans Basbøll (University of Southern Denmark)

Lexical Specification of Stød and Non-Stød

17:30-18:00

Miguel Vázquez-Larruscain (Telemark University College)

No tonal roots for stød in Scandinavia

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General Session – Morphology/Syntax

Monday 13th

May 2013

11:30-12:00

Guro Fløgstad (University of Oslo)

Alternate paths: The expansion of the preterit in Rioplatense Spanish

12:00-12:30

Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (University of Connecticut)

Peeling the onion: on domains and semantic hierarchies in Icelandic compounds

LUNCH

14:00-14:30

Peter Svenonius (CASTL, University of Tromsø) & Ida Larsson (Stockholm University)

English and Scandinavian participles and the Syntax-Morphology interface

14:30-15:00

Þorsteinn G. Indriðason (University of Bergen)

On bound word forms in Icelandic

15:00-15:30

Hans Götzsche (Aalborg University)

Some remarks on word formation in Danish

15:30-16:00

Ellert Jóhannsson (Old Norse Prose Dictionary at University of Copenhagen)

Some Changes in Icelandic Verb Endings

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Sabina Matyiku (Yale University)

Motivating Movement: The Case of Negative Inversion in West Texas English

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General Session - Historical

Monday 13th

May 2013

14:00-14:30

Eric Lander (Ghent University) & Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)

Some 'NP properties' in Old Norse

14:30-15:00

David Håkansson (Uppsala University) & Johan Brandtler (Ghent University)

From Head to Spec: Negation in First Position in Swedish

15:00-15:30

Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University)

Pancake sentences and gender system changes in Mainland Scandinavian

15:30-16:00

Serena Danesi (University of Bergen)

Possessors, Experiencers and the Dative-like Genitive in Sanskrit

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (University of Iceland)

How to do things with speech acts. An example from the Old Icelandic Morkinskinna

17:00-17:30

Hanne Martine Eckhoff (University of Oslo)

Definiteness without definiteness: evidence from Old Church Slavonic

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General Session – Syntax/Semantics

Tuesday 14th

May 2013

15:00-15:30

Øystein Vangsnes (CASTL, University of Tromsø)

Measureless quantificational exclamatives in North Germanic

15:30-16:00

Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)

Taste predicates, judgements and attitudes

COFFEE

16:30-17:00

Thorstein Fretheim (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))

Unstressed demonstrative determiners in Norwegian