Castl - previous talks

Talks Fall 2005:

Thu Dec 1 05	The diachrony of dative objects in Scandinavian ^*	Jóhannes Gķsli Jónsson (Reykjavik) ^*
Thu Nov 17 05	Predicate Decomposition and Verbs of the ‘Put-On’ Class in Korean ^*	Minjeong Son ^*
Thu Nov 10 05	Floating Quantifiers and English VP-Structure ^*	Ad Neeleman (London) ^*
Thu Oct 20 05	Epenthetic segments in Optimality Theory ^*	Christian Uffmann (Tromsų) ^*
Thu Oct 6 05	Experiencer predicates in Scottish Gaelic ^*	Gillian Ramchand (Tromsų) ^*
Thu Sep 29 05	The directional/locative chameleon ^*	Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsų) ^*
Thu Sep 22 05	What's the better move? On verb placement in embedded clauses in three varieties of Norwegian ^*	Kristine Bentzen (Tromsų) ^*
Thu Sep 8 05	Counting, TBU's and Melodies in Llogoori ^*	David Odden (OSU) ^*

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Talks Spring 2005:

Thu May 26 05	Arnim von Stechow (Universität Tübingen) ^*
Thu May 19 05	Genoveva Puskas (Geneva) ^*
Thu May 12 05	Madeleine Halmųy (Tromsų) ^*
Thu May 5 05	Chris Kennedy (Northwestern U.) and Peter Svenonius (CASTL): Northern Norwegian Degree Questions and the Grammar of Measurement ^*
Thu Apr 28 05	Paula Fikkert (Nijmegen) ^*
Thu Apr 21 05	Merete Anderssen (Tromsų) ^*
Thu Apr 14 05	Manuela Schönenberger (Universität Stuttgart):Parameter (mis)setting and UG ^*
Thu Apr 7 05	Luisa Marti (Tromsų): Spanish unos and algunos and the semantics of indefiniteness ^*
Thu Mar 10 05	Eugenia Romanova (Tromsų) "What does the 'phrasal verbs' perfectivity test test?" ^*
Thu Mar 3 05	Klaus Abels (Tromsų): Grimshaw's clausal typology revisited ^*
Thu Feb 24 05	Henning Andersen (UCLA):The development of syllable harmony in Common Slavic ^*
Thu Feb 17 05	Lars Hellan (NTNU): Computing aspect in a computational grammar ^*
Thu Feb 3 05	Jan Terje Faarlund (Oslo):A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory ^*

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Talks 2004:

Thu Nov 18 04	Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsų) Noen ^*
Thu Nov 11 04	Marit Julien (Tromsų) Nominal arguments and nominal predicates ^*
Thu Nov 4 04	We hosting a Workshop on Argument Structure. Look here for details! ^*
Tue Nov 2 04	Ricardo Bermśdez-Otero (University of Newcastle) Raising and Flapping in Canadian English: grammar and acquisition NB! Tuesday evening ^*
Thu Oct 28 04	Ųystein Nilsen (Tromsų) General Cluster and the battle of D ^*
Thu Oct 21 04	Mits Ota (Edinburgh) The acquisition of tonal structure in Stockholm Swedish and Tokyo Japanese ^*
Fri Oct 15 04	Jürgen Meisel (Hamburg) Age and maturation in successive acquisition of bilingualism NB: 10.15, E0.101 ^*
Thu Oct 14 04	Jürgen Meisel (Hamburg): Early differentiation of grammatical systems and subsequent developments in simultaneous acquisition of bilingualism ^*
Thu Oct 7 04	Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute) & David Adger (London) - Variation course (all week) ^*
Fri Oct 1 04	Harald Clahsen (Essex): The SVO preference in German sentence processing NB: 10.15, E0105 ^*
Thu Sep 30 04	Harald Clahsen (Essex): Finiteness and Verb-Second in German Agrammatism ^*
Thu Sep 23 04	Martin Krämer (Tromsų): Underlying representations in Optimality Theory ^*
Thu Sep 16 04	Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California) Degree quantifiers ^*
Thu Sep 9 04	Tore Nesset (Tromsų) Allomorphy in the Usage-Based Model: The Case of Russian Conjugation ^*
Thu Sep 2 04	Luisa Marti: Variables optionally in the syntax ^*
Wed Sep 1 04	Michele Miozzo (Columbia University) The lexicon: A neuropsychological perspective kl. 15.15, HumFak, E0101 ^*
Thu May 27 04	Hana Filip (Stanford): "The semantic structure of prefixed verbs and their arguments" ^*
Thu May 13 04	Laura Janda (North Carolina) Properties of Matter and Concepts of Time: A Model for Russian Aspect ^*
Thu Apr 29 04	Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh): The secret life of 'voicing' in fricatives ^*
Thu Apr 1 04	Asbjųrn Bartnes (Tromsų): Metaphor as a structuring principle of higher education and research. ^*
Thu Mar 18 04	Andrew Spencer (Essex): Generalized paradigm function morphology ^*
Fri Mar 5 04	Colette Grinevald (Lyon): Fieldwork on endangered language - the case of the Rama Language Project of Nicaragua. ^*
Fri Mar 5 04	Colette Grinevald (Lyon): Miss Nora, rescuer of the Rama language of Nicaragua. ^*
Thu Mar 4 04	Colette Grinevald (Lyon): A typological approach to the expression of space: The case of trajectory. ^*
Thu Feb 26 04	Marilyn Vihman (Bangor): The role of rhythm in early word learning: Perspectives from perception and production. ^*
Thu Feb 19 04	Richard Ogden (York): Phonetic resources for agreeing and disagreeing in second assessments ^*
Thu Feb 12 04	Eugenia Romanova (Tromsų): Telicity is a lexical property ^*
Thu Feb 5 04	Patrycja Jablonska (Tromsų): Argument structure and conjugation classes ^*
Mon Feb 2 04	Klaus Abels (Leipzig): Some generalizations about preposition stranding and their consequences. ^*
Thu Jan 29 04	Gillian Ramchand (Oxford): The structural basis for argument relations ^*
Thu Jan 22 04	Anders Holmberg (Durham & CASTL): Topic drop and VP focus ^*
Thu Jan 15 04	Hans-Olav Enger (Hųgskolen i Stavanger): Do affixes have meaning? Abstract ^*

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Events in previous years:

December 4, 2003 Peter Svenonius (UiTų, CASTL) Phases at the Interface: Interpretability and Convergence
November 13, 2003 Madeleine Halmųy (UiTų, CASTL) Nominal predicates in Norwegian, French & English
November 20, 2003 Eugenia Romanova (UiTų, CASTL) Lexical and superlexical prefixes in Russian
November 6, 2003 Ove Lorentz (UiTų, CASTL) Tonal Faithfulness in Scandinavian
October 16, 2003 Firmin Ahoua (University of Cocody) Structures and changes in the phonology of the languages of the Ivory Coast ppt file for talk
October 9, 2003 Peter Svenonius (UiTų, CASTL) IGLO (Intercomprehension of Germanic Languages Online) as a research tool.
September 18, 2003 Tore Nesset (UiTų, CASTL) Rule counting and rule ordering: Universal principles of rule interaction in gender assignment
September 11, 2003 Thorbjųrg Hróarsdóttir (UiTų, CASTL) Economy: On simplicity, default values and markedness in language acquisition and change
September 4, 2003 Marit R. Westergaard (UiTų, CASTL) The Interaction of Input and UG in the Acquisition of Verb Movement in a Dialect of Norwegian
June 3, 2003 Prof. Jacek Witkos (University of Poznan) The phase-based minimalism and the phenomenon of the Genitive of Negation in Polish'
May 27-29, 2003 Forskerutdanningsseminar on Morphology - May 27: Jorge Hankamer, UCSC 'Parsing' - May 28: Alec Marantz, MIT 'Argument structure' - May 29: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University 'Lexical morphology'
May 22, 2003 Jorge Hankamer and Line Mikkelsen (UC Santa Cruz) When movement must be blocked Abstract: Embick and Noyer (2001) develop an analysis of definiteness marking in Danish and Swedish employing the central assumptions of Distributed Morphology together with the syntactic operation of head movement of N to D. We argue that this analysis as presented cannot account for the full range of facts, and after examining several theoretical and empirical problems we conclude that the assumption of N-to-D movement is incompatible with the central assumptions of Distributed Morphology.
May 8, 2003 Marit Julien (UiTų, CASTL) Possessor Licensing
April 3, 2003 Peter Svenonius (UiTų, CASTL) Complex Predicates, Simple Lexical Entries
March 27, 2003 Malgorzata Kul and Magdalena Bator, our visiting students from Poznan, will present their work. Malgorzata Kul: "Which accent, please?" The presentation has been prepared for the 34th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, organised by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm/index.htm). The conference will take place on 1-3 May 2003 and will focus on hot issues in contemporary linguistics. One of them is accent and teaching native vs. artificially derived pronunciation models in EFL such as Lingua Franca Core as proposed by Jennifer Jenkins. My contribution is to present and discuss the results of the questionnaire conducted among the students of the School of English in Poznan. The aim was to find out what they think and which accent they will teach as prospective EFL teachers. The discussion of the results will be preceded by a brief introduction devoted to the issue of accent. Moreover, some implications for teaching will be also mentioned as well as the phonological features of the LFC (J. Jenkins 2000). Magdalena Bator: "Late Old English noun morphology" An examination of the changes in OE inflectional endings in nominal paradigms from the Late OE period.
March 20, 2003 Tarald Taraldsen A-movement, Case, and Agreement
February 27, 2003 Marit Julien, Roots and Verbs in Northern Sįmi
February 13, 2003 Patrycja Jablonska, 'Out-of-control is non-bundling Voice'
February 6, 2003 Peter Svenonius, Adpositions, Particles, and the Arguments they Introduce
January 23, 2003 Curt Rice, Representing Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory NB: room E0103!
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November 28, 2002 Girma Demeke, "Sentential Negation in Ethio-Semitic"
November 21, 2002 Tor Åfarli (NTNU), TBA
November 14, 2002 Girma Demeke, "Sentential Negation in Ethio-Semitic"
October 31, 2002 Patrik Bye, "Opacity, transparency and unification in the phonology of Tiberian Biblical Hebrew"
October 17, 2002 Hilde Sollid, "On negative concord in a Northern Norwegian dialect"
October 14, 2002 Jóhannes Gķsli Jónsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavķk), on "Changes in Subject Case in Icelandic and Faroese"
October 10, 2002 Margrethe Mondahl (Handelshųjskole Kųbenhavn), "The IGLO methodology - a case for adult, autonomous learning"; Beate Lindemann, "Resepsjon og motivasjon," and Peter Svenonius, "What can formal linguistic theory offer to language teaching?"
September 5, 2002 Kjetil Berntzen, University of Bergen (presenting joint work with Arild Hestvik, CUNY), "V-movement and question production in Norwegian Broca?s aphasia"
June 20, 2002 Don Steinmetz (Augsburg), "Motivating a default hierarchy for German plural formation."
May 28, 2002 Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova (NTNU Trondheim), title and time to be announced.
May 27, 2002 Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova (NTNU Trondheim), title to be announced.1215-1400, room E0.105.(Guest Lecture for MPhil course)
May 13, 2002 David Lightfoot (Georgetown), The form of innateness claims. 1015-1200.
May 10, 2002 Peter Trudgill (Freibourg), "English as an Endangered Language". 1300-1400.(Alf Sommerfelt Lecture)
May 8, 2002 Mai Tungseth, "PP, PathP, and the telic/atelic distinction in Norwegian Motion constructions" Pdf abstract for Iowa Conference.
May 2, 2002 Asya Pereltsvaig, "Aspect Lost, Aspect Regained: Restructuring of aspectual marking in American Russian" Pdf abstract for Iowa Conference.
April 26, 2002 Angeliek van Hout (Groningen), "Acquiring Telicity Crosslinguistically" (guest lecture for MPhil course)
April 25, 2002 Angeliek van Hout (Groningen), "Do we need aspect in syntax?"
April 18, 2002 Patrik Bye, "Accentuation and Contraction in Attic Greek"
April 4, 2002 Curt Rice, "When nothing is good enough: Dialectal variation in Norwegian imperatives"
March 21, 2002 Peter Svenonius, "P"
March 14, 2002 Tarald Taraldsen, "Complex passives in Romance and Germanic"
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November 29, 2001 Marit Richardsen Westergaard, "UNLEARNING V2: The Acquisition of Word Order in English by Norwegian Children"
November 15, 2001 Ųystein Alexander Vangsnes, "Passing by numbers: On noun phrase internal movement in Icelandic (and related issues)"
October 25, 2001 Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, post-doctoral fellow, on Syntactic change and the Minimalist Program
October 11, 2001 Hilde Sollid, amanuensis, on Attitudes Towards a Syntactic Construction in a Kvenish Community
October 4, 2001 Asya Pereltsvaig, post-doctoral fellow, on American Russian Morphosyntax: Is it Morphology or Syntax?
September 20, 2001 Gillian Ramchand of Oxford University, on Predication and Equation (NB: Location is Nedre Lysthus auditorium)
September 13, 2001 Marit Julien, Post-doctoral fellow, on Determiners and word order in Scandinavian nominal phrases.