Layout: Lars Nordmo 2006

This is the web version of CASTLs third Annual Report. Below you will find the words from our leadership, and by following this link you will get the full version of the report.
The paper version will be available after the 1st of April 2006. Please contact us at castl@hum.uit.no if you like us to ship you a copy of the new report.













CASTL aspires to internationally recognized excellence in research and excellence in doctoral education. To achieve these goals, we depend on hiring the best and the brightest young researchers, and we depend on the freedom to develop not only our ideas but also our strategies for research and researcher training. This annual report offers selected highlights from the past year’s work in pursuit of these goals.
Our success also depends on economic resources, and we are deeply grateful for the generous funding provided by the Norwegian Research Council, The University of Tromsø and the Faculty of Humanities.
In addition to our Center of Excellence financing, CASTL also hosts several other major grants; in 2005, CASTL was named as the host for a Nordic Center of Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax (NORMS) with funding from the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). NORMS and other grants in theoretical linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities made it possible to hire several new colleagues this year. As a result, our center has surely become one of the most international research groups in Scandinavia, with over 20 nationalities represented!
Our activities this year included hosting over 100 guests at various workshops, conferences and short courses, including several who stayed on for longer periods to pursue their own projects and to share their results with us. Our researchers held more than 100 talks and published about 50 papers. We also had a successful doctoral defense, with several more just around the corner!
Finally, we note that CASTL’s position in our field received an unexpected recognition when, in 2005, we were asked to become the first institution outside of North America to take editorial responsibility for the squibs section of the prestigious MIT-based journal, Linguistic Inquiry.
2005 has been a stellar year at CASTL. Takk for innsatsen!

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