15.3196, Confs: General Ling/Oslo, Norway

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Date: 10-Nov-2004
From: Øystein Alexander Vangsnes < oystein.vangsnes at hum.uit.no >
Subject: Methods and Tools for the Study of Grammatical Variation 
 

	
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:03:27
From: Øystein Alexander Vangsnes < oystein.vangsnes at hum.uit.no >
Subject: Methods and Tools for the Study of Grammatical Variation 
 

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Methods and Tools for the Study of Grammatical Variation 

Date: 28-Nov-2004 - 02-Dec-2004 
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact: Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson 
Contact Email: gunnahh at ilf.uio.no 
Meeting URL: http://uit.no/scandiasyn/5793/

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Research training seminar and workshop
November 28 - December 2, 2004 
at the University of Oslo 
(in collaboration with the University of Tromsø)

The seminar is sponsored by Nasjonalt forskerutdanningsutvalg for
historisk-filosofiske fag.

EXTENDED REGISTRATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 20.

For registration, please send an e-mail to Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson
(gunnahh at ilf.uio.no)

Seminar web page: http://uit.no/scandiasyn/5793/

INVITED TEACHERS:
Leonie CORNIPS, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
Cecilia POLETTO, CNR/University of Padova
Jan-Ola ÖSTMAN, University of Helsinki

PROGRAM

Sunday (November 28)
10:00 - 10:30	Introduction by the organizers
10:30 - 12:00	Elizabeth Lanza (University of Oslo): 
		Data collection from a sociolinguistic perspective
12:00 - 13:00 	Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 	Transcribing spoken language. 
		Introduction by Kristin Hagen and Janne Bondi Johannessen (University
		of Oslo). 
		Practical exercises
15:35 - 16:30 	Round table discussion on transcription

Monday (November 29)
10:00 - 12:00 	Leonie Cornips: 
		Standardization of syntactic elicitation tasks, speakers of dialects, 
		and why acceptability judgments do not provide direct access to 
		speakers' linguistic competence
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 	Jan-Ola Östman: 
		Constructions and pragmatics in dialectology research
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00	Presentation of ScanDiaSyn (The Scandinavian Dialect Syntax
		Project)

Tuesday (November 30)
  9:00 - 11:00	Cecilia Poletto: 
		Field work in formal syntax: what dialectology can provide 
		to our understanding of internal and external grammar
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 13:00	Leonie Cornips: 
		(Continued from Monday)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 17:00	Workshop with presentations by among others 
		Ásgrímur Angant?sson (Reykjavík), Kristine Bentzen (Tromsø),
		Christine Meklenborg Salvesen (Oslo), Hilde Sollid (Stavanger)
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19:00		Dinner

Wednesday (December 1)
10:00 - 12:00	Jan-Ola Östman: 
		(Continued from Monday)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 15:00	Cecilia Poletto: 
		(Continued from Tuesday)
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00	Nordic Corpora: 
		Presentation of tools and resources available in Norway and Scandinavia

Thursday (December 2)
   9:00 - 10:30	Åsne Haaland (University of Oslo): 
		Statistics in linguistics
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Sonja Erlenkamp (University of Oslo): 
		Challenges in using visual data in linguistic research
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Final discussions




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