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ScanDiaSyn – Scandinavian Dialect Syntax
ScanDiaSyn - Scandinavian Dialect Syntax
is a project umbrella where nine Scandinavian
research groups collaborate to systematically map and study the
syntactic variation across the Scandinavian dialect continuum.
The nine groups are spread across all of the five Nordic
countries and one self-governed area (the Faroe Islands). Three
non-Nordic groups are liased with the project through a NordForsk
network.
Together with CASTL ScanDiaSyn furthermore constitutes
the backbone of the Nordic Center of Excellence in
Microcomparative Syntax (NORMS) appointed by
NOS-HS for the period august 2005
until July 2010. As of 1 April 2007 the ScanDiaSyn efforts have
received direct support from (in the order of magnitude)
NOS-HS, the Icelandic
Centre for Research, the Swedish
Research Council, the
University of Oslo, the University of
Tromsø, Academy of
Finland,
NordForsk/NorFA,
the Danish Research Councils for the Humanities, the Nordic Language
Council (Nordens Språkråd), and Nordplus språk. The network coordinator
and project manager for ScanDiaSyn is Dr. Øystein
Alexander Vangsnes at the University of Tromsø.
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Of current interest!
- Workshop on Argument Structure, Lund University, 5-6
February 2008 (organized by Christer Platzack and Mai Tungseth);
invited speakers Artemis Alexiadou, Heidi Harley, and Gillian Ramchand.
The program is available here.
- Workshop on Negation, Universitetet i Oslo, 11-12 March (organized by Eva Engels, Janne B. Johannessen, and Arne Martinus Lindstad); invited speakers Liliane Haegeman (Lille), Cecilia Poletto (Padova/Venezia), Anne Breitbarth (Cambridge) og Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (Iceland).
- Workshop on Root phenomena and the Left periphery, University of Tromsø, 19-20 May (organized by Kristine Bentzen and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson).
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Scandinavian Dialect Syntax
2005 has come out as volume 34 of Nordlyd. The volume is a collection of
articles from the 1st Grand Meeting for the network in Leikanger in
August 2005.
A complete overview of upcoming and past ScanDiaSyn/NORMS related activities can be found here.
ScanDiaSyn and NORMS in the media:
ScanDiaSyn (incl. NORMS) has received considerable attention in the mass media. Below are the most recent news pieces. See this page for older public relation material. (Or click ‘media’ in the left menu.)
- Lyngdal en av 50 (‘Lyngdal one out of 50’), article on the ScanDiaSyn fieldwork in Lyngdal, Farsunds Avis, 4 February 2008.
- Om 100 år er allting gløymt - men ikkje dialektane (‘In a 100 years all will be forgotten – but not the dialects’), article on the ScanDiaSyn fieldwork in Sirdal, Norway, Sirdølen 30 January 2008.
- På veg mot fylkesdialekt (‘Towards a common county dialect’), feature article including interview with Øystein A. Vangsnes, Sogn Avis 15 January 2008. (Web version)
(Various follow-up articles and responses can be found on this page.)
- Temperaturen blev taget på dialekten/Forsker:Bange for at vi er 30 år for sent på den (‘The temperature was taken on the dialect/Researcher: Afraid we're 30 years too late’), reportage in Dagbladet Holstebro-Struer, 10 January 2008.
- Forskere på besøk i Kirkesdalen: Dialekta under lupen (‘Researchers visiting Kirkesdalen: the dialect under the microscope’), article on the ScanDiaSyn fieldwork in Kirkesdalen, Nye Troms, 8 January 2008.
- Systrending leiar nordisk språkprosjekt (‘Systrondener is leading Nordic language project’), article about ScanDiaSyn in Sogn Avis, 7 January 2008.
- Interview with Øystein A. Vangsnes on Norwegian national radio about ‘how’ in Norwegian dialects and other Scandinavian varieties, Språkteigen NRK, 7 January 2008.
- Interview with Øystein A. Vangsnes on Norwegian national radio about kelais ‘how’ in the Sogn dialect, Språkteigen NRK, 6 January 2008.
- Dialekten din er viktig! (‘Your dialect is important!’), article by Curt Rice and Øystein A. Vangsnes in Labyrint 1:2007.
- Interview with Øystein A. Vangsnes about fieldwork in Gaupne, Luster, NRK Sogn og Fjordane, the morning program 19 December 2007.
- Interview with Kristine Bentzen on Norwegian national radio about the language acquisition lab in Tromsø, Språkteigen NRK, 10 December 2007.
- Fornöfn og eðli þeirra (‘Pronouns and their nature’), interview with Höskuldur Thráinsson about the NORMS workshop on binding, Morgunblaðið, 8 December 2007.
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