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Directory         1.     Janne Bondi Johannessen , 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America Message 1: 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America Date: 11-Jun-2011 From: Janne Bondi Johannessen <jannebjiln.uio.no> Subject: 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America E-mail this message to a friend 2nd Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America Date: 21-Sep-2011 - 24-Sep-2011 Location: Vinstra, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway Contact: Janne Johannessen Contact Email: < click here to access email > 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 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.