35.1357, Confs: Microvariation and Microchange in the Scandinavian Languages

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Subject: 35.1357, Confs: Microvariation and Microchange in the Scandinavian Languages

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Date: 27-Apr-2024
From: Heidi Klockmann [heidi.e.klockmann at uia.no]
Subject: Microvariation and Microchange in the Scandinavian Languages

Microvariation and microchange in the Scandinavian languages
Short Title: MMSL

Date: 14-May-2024 - 16-May-2024
Location: Kristiansand, Norway
Contact: Heidi Klockmann
Contact Email: heidi.e.klockmann at uia.no
Meeting URL: https://synergylinguistics.wordpress.com/conference-micro
variation-and-microchange-in-the-scandinavian-languages/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories
Language Family(ies): North Germanic

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce a workshop on Microvariation and
microchange in the Scandinavian languages, which will be hosted at the
University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway on May 14th-16th, 2024.

In this workshop, we revisit the Scandinavian languages in light of
classic and Minimalist parametric theory, in order to bring to the
fore new data and new theories on variation and change. We invite
empirical and theoretical contributions that focus on one or more
Scandinavian languages in the domains of (morpho-)syntax, phonology,
semantics, and pragmatics. Diachronic, comparative or acquisitional
perspectives are also welcome.

Invited speakers:
•       Marit Julien (Lund University )
•       Kari Kinn (University of Bergen)
•       Sverre Stausland Johnsen (University of Oslo)
•       Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland)

We are happy to announce the program for the workshop Microvariation
and microchange in the Scandinavian languages. The program can also be
found at this link:
https://synergylinguistics.wordpress.com/program-mmsl/

Network meeting announcement: One of the goals of this workshop is to
establish a network among generative linguists in the Nordic
countries. This network is intended for all generative researchers
based in the Nordic countries, not only those who work on Nordic
languages, but on any language(s) and in any branch of generative
linguistics. To this end, we have scheduled a network meeting on the
final day of the workshop (May 16th, 11.30am – 12.15pm, CEST), where
we can discuss what form this network might take and its future. The
meeting will be held in a hybrid format, in order to make it as
accessible to all relevant parties as possible. If you would like to
join the meeting virtually, please send an email to
heidi.e.klockmann at uia.no. You will receive a Zoom link on the week of
the meeting.

Day 1 (Tuesday, May 14th, 2024)

8:30 – 9:00 Registration & coffee 
9:00 – 9:15 Opening 
9:15 – 10:15 Kari Kinn (Invited speaker): Microvariation and
microchange in Scandinavian heritage languages
10:15 – 10:25 Coffee break
10:25 – 11:05 Øystein Vangsnes: The nanosyntax of Norwegian som
11:05 – 11:45 Karen Hovind & Espen Klævik-Pettersen: Pass-ing for
measurement: The Norwegian degree morpheme pass and non-canonical
degree questions
11:45 – 12:35 Lunch break
12:35 – 13:15 Maud Westendorp & Björn Lundquist: A symmetric account
of asymmetric V2
13:15 – 13:55 Espen Klævik-Pettersen: V-to-T in Norwegian? Evidence
for an intermediate verb position in non-V2 embedded clauses
13.55 – 14.00 Micro break
14:00 – 15:00 Heimir Viðarsson (Invited speaker): Embedded V2, V-to-I
and the RAH in (Early) Modern Icelandic: Configurationality on the
left periphery
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
Practical Session
15:15 – 15:45 Alexander Pfaff: Patternization: How to measure
syntactic variation?
15:45 – 16:45 Maud Westendorp & Björn Lundquist (hybrid): Nordic Word
order Database: Elicited production of syntactic variation and
sound-text alignment techniques

Day 2 (Wednesday, May 15th, 2024)

8:45 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Sverre Stausland (Invited speaker): The source of
variation in language
10:00 – 10:40 Klaus Kurki: The V3 particle så in Fenno-Swedish
10:40 – 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 – 11:35 Eva Klingvall, Fabian Beijer, & Fredrik Heinat:
Variation in adjectival agreement
11:35 – 12:15 Alexander Pfaff: Weak Adjectives and Articles across
Scandinavian
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 – 13:55 Yvonne van Baal, Hedda Solbakken, Ragnhild Eik, & Terje
Lohndal: Microvariation in grammatical gender: the loss of feminine
across Norwegian dialects
13:55 – 14:35 Charlotte Sant: The neuter and lack of gender in
Mainland Scandinavian
14:35 – 14:50 Coffee break
Practical Session
14:50 – 15:00 Øystein Vangsnes: NALS: The Nordic Atlas of Language
Structures Journal
15:00 – 16:00 Elena Callegari: Fine-tuning a Large Language Model: A
Hands-on-Session
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion

Day 3 (Thursday, May 16th, 2024)

9:00 – 10:00 Marit Julien (Invited speaker): Subject extraction in
Mainland Scandinavian
10:00 – 10:10 Coffee break
10:10 – 10:50 Elena Callegari & Ásgrímur Angantýsson: Negative
Preposing in Icelandic: How Frequent is it, really?
10:50 – 11:30 Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Ásgrímur Angantýsson: On the
syntax and variation of clausal exceptives across Scandinavian.
Synchronic and diachronic insights
11:30 – 12:15 Discussion of the network/concluding remarks (hybrid)
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

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