LINGUIST List 15.3196
Sat Nov 13 2004
Confs: General Ling/Oslo, Norway
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1. Øystein Alexander
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Methods and Tools for the Study of Grammatical Variation
Message 1: Methods and Tools for the Study of Grammatical Variation
Date: 10-Nov-2004
From: Øystein Alexander Vangsnes <oystein.vangsnes
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
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
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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