25.1639, Calls: North Germanic, Syntax, Semantics, Typology, Socioling, Language Acq/Norway

Tue Apr 8 14:52:52 UTC 2014

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Subject: 25.1639, Calls: North Germanic, Syntax, Semantics, Typology, Socioling, Language Acq/Norway

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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:52:26
From: Peter Svenonius [peter.svenonius at uit.no]
Subject: CASTL Spring Conference on the North Germanic Noun Phrase

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Full Title: CASTL Spring Conference on the North Germanic Noun Phrase 
Short Title: NGDP 

Date: 22-May-2014 - 23-May-2014
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact Person: Peter Svenonius
Meeting Email: dp at castl.uit.no
Web Site: https://castl.uit.no/index.php/component/content/article/76-other-castl-events/conferencesaworkshops/320-the-north-germanic-noun-phrase 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Morphology; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
                     Elfdalian (qer)
                     Faroese (fao)
                     Icelandic (isl)
                     Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Swedish (swe)

Language Family(ies): North Germanic 

Call Deadline: 09-Apr-2014 

Meeting Description:

The North Germanic Noun Phrase
May 22-23, 2014
CASTL, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Invited Speakers:

Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm
Marit Julien, Lund University
Line Mikkelsen, University of California at Berkeley
Plus a number of talks by local speakers

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, 

- Insight into the nature of variation seen in the North Germanic noun phrase
- Analyses of semantic phenomena such as definiteness or restrictive modification
- Analyses of morphosyntactic phenomena, including inflection on adnominal modifiers, or of double definiteness
- Analyses of the nature of gender or other systems of classification of nouns
- The acquisition of properties of the North Germanic noun phrase
- Aspects of the North Germanic Noun Phrase in a comparative, crosslinguistic context

2nd Call for Papers:

Reminder: 

Deadline for abstracts for the CASTL spring conference on the North Germanic Noun Phrase is April 9.

Abstracts should be anonymous and two pages in length, for thirty-minute presentations (plus discussion). 

A third page may be used for references. 

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyAbs: 

http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/castldp2014

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