22.2460, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Socioling, Lang Documentation/Norway

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Subject: 22.2460, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Socioling, Lang Documentation/Norway

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Date: 11-Jun-2011
From: Janne Bondi Johannessen [jannebj at iln.uio.no]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America

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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:41:30
From: Janne Bondi Johannessen [jannebj at iln.uio.no]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America

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2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America 

Date: 21-Sep-2011 - 24-Sep-2011 
Location: Vinstra, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway 
Contact: Janne Johannessen 
Contact Email: jannebj at iln.uio.no, jsalmons at wisc.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/news-events/events/2011/feforseminar-norskiamerika.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America will be held at Fefor Høifjellshotell in Norway 21-24. September 2011.

Topics: New research into old immigrant languages in America, including all areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, bilingualism, acquisition, variation and change. 

Wednesday, 21 September

Travel by train Oslo/Gardermoen - Vinstra. Three alternatives:

08.07/08.33 - 11.14: Lunch and short walk at Fefor
10.37/11.05 - 14.01 (change of train in Lillehammer) 
Lunch at the train!(14.17/14.45 - 17.22)

15:00 - 15:10 
Welcome

15:10 - 15:50
On the Icelandic language in America - Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir (U Iceland)

15:50 - 16:30
On Immigrant Swedish in Misiones, Argentina - Gunvor Flodell (U Umeå)

16:30 - 16:50
Coffee and Fruit

16:50 - 17:30
The Language of Coon Valley and Westby from the 1940s to 2010 - Arnstein Hjelde (HiØ)

17:30 -  18:10
The Norwegian Language of the American Midwest: Old-fashioned and Standardized - Janne Bondi Johannessen and Signe Laake (UiO)

Towards Bokmål?

19:00
Dinner

Thursday, 22 September

09:00 - 09:40
Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic
Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch - Josh Brown (U Wisconsin) and Mike Putnam (Penn State U)

09:40 -  10:20
Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of
Norwegian Possessive Constructions - Merete Andersen and Marit Westergaard (UiT) 

10:20 - 10:40
Coffee

10:40 - 11:20 
Heritage Language Obstruent Phonetics and Phonology: American Norwegian Stop Duration - Brent Allen and Joe Salmons (U Wisconsin)

11:20 - 12:00
Tracing a Sound Change in New Braunfels German - Mar Pierce and Hans Boas (U Texas, Austin)

12:00 -  13:00
Lunch

13:00 - 15:00
Walk to Feforkampen

15:15 - 15:55 
Looking for Contact-induced Change in Heritage Languages [N=442] - Naomi Nagy (U Toronto)

15:55 - 16:35
'That's the Finnish Grammar Coming Out of My Mind'; Typological Constraints on Code-switching in Two Finnic-speaking Communities - Pia Lane UiO)

16:35 - 17:00
Coffee and fruit

17:00 - 17:40
Codeswitching Data in Amerikanorsk and the Theoretical Analysis of Tense - Tor Åfarli (NTNU)

17:40 - 18:20
Swedish in America - Past and Present - Ida Larsson (UiO), Maia Andréasson (GU), Benjamin Lyngfelt (GU), Jenny Nilsson (ILF), Sofia Tingsell (GU)

19.00 Dinner

Friday, 23 September

09:00 -  09:40
Extraclausal Structures in Amish Varieties of Pennsylvania Dutch - Mark L. Louden (U Wisconsin)

09:40 - 10:20
On Modality in Immigrant Language: The Case of Spu:st in Spoken Norwegian in the Midwest - Kristin Eide and Arnstein Hjelde (NTNU and UiH)

10:20 -  10:40
Coffee

10:.40 - 11:20
Transnational and Translocal Identities Among Norwegian Descendants in the US - Anne Golden and Elizabeth Lanza (UiO)

11:20 - 12:00
Some Comments on Leachman's Norsk-Engelsk Lomme-Ordbog Norwegian-English Pocket Dictionary and Manual of Useful Information. Milwakee, Wis. USA 1897 - Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld (UiO)

12:00 -  15:30
Lunch and guided tour at Sygard Grytting - an old farm and a hotel owned by the same family during the past 700 years

15:45 -  16:25 
On Attrition in American Norwegian Syntax - Janne Bondi Johannessen (UiO)

16:25 - 16:45
Coffee and fruit

16.45 - 17:25
One Feature of Wisconsin West Frisian Morphophonology - Todd Ehresmann and Joshua Bousquette (U Wisconsin)

17:25 - 18:.10
Some Features of Norwegian in Wisconsin - Lucas Annear and Kristin Speth (U Wisconsin)

19:00
Workshop dinner   

Saturday, 24 September

(Early train: 03:11 Vinstra Gardermoen)
(Early train: 06:09 Vinstra Gardermoen)

11.00
Bus departs

11:59 - 14:40
Vinstra - Gardermoen

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