| Plenaries Auditorium 1, 2nd floor |
Section I Auditorium 5, 3rd floor |
Section II Auditorium 6, 3rd floor |
Section III Auditorium 13, 3rd floor |
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| Wed Jan 7 | Wed Jan 7 | Wed Jan 7 | Wed Jan 7 | |
| 12.50-13.00 | Opening (Fred Karlsson) | |||
| 13.00-14.00 | Geoffrey Sampson: The human significance of corpus linguistics | |||
| 14.05-14.35 | Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri: The relation between mind and language: Innateness Hypothesis and poverty of the stimulus | Thorstein Fretheim: All things considered - the pragmatic function of a type of adverbial adjunct | Sang-Cheol Ahn: English interdental substitution | |
| 14.40-15.10 | Mila
Dimitrova-Vulchanova: Mirror neurons and verb meaning |
Catherine Ringen & Pétur Helgason: Distinctive [voice] does not imply regressive assimilation | ||
| Break | ||||
| 15.30-16.00 | Patricia Poussa: The Futhark and the fur trade: Adaptation of an alphabet by its users | Matti Miestamo: Grammatical complexity of languages: A cross-linguistic pilot study | ||
| 16.05-16.35 | Mayumi Hosono: Defocalization strategy - general suppression phenomena of phonetic forms in the canonically realized position | Trond Trosterud: Explaining the Great Gender Shift | Kaius Sinnemäki: The behavior of subordinate clauses in complex right-branching structures | |
| 16.40-17.40 | John McWhorter: Saramaccan as a young grammar: The pitfalls of syntactocentrism in Creolist research | |||
| 18.30 | Reception | |||
| Thursday Jan 8 | Thursday Jan 8 | Thursday Jan 8 | Thursday Jan 8 | |
| 09.00-09.30 | Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen: Sphere semantics for aspect | Bernhard Wälchli: Typology of repetitive and negation – similarities and differences | ||
| 09.35-10.05 | Dorian Roehrs: A PF Account of the Scandinavian DP | Alexander V. Kravchenko: A new cognitive framework for Russian aspect | Seppo Kittilä: Avoid ambiguity: On the encoding of Causee, Recipient and Beneficiary in tritransitives | |
| Break | ||||
| 10.25-10.55 | Gunnar H. Hrafnbjargarson: Stylistic fronting | Timothy Mills & Hannele Nicholson: Pitch accent without pitch, voicing without voice: Scottish English and Norwegian whisper | Ekaterina Gruzdeva: Semantics and grammar of taxis in Nivkh | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Kristin M. Eide: Tense | Allison Wetterlin & Aditi Lahiri: Unmarked tone accent in Scandinavian | In memory of Helma van den Berg who sadly
died on November 11, 2003. |
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| 11.35-12.35 | Östen Dahl: The dialectics of grammar change, or why life cycles are not always cyclic | |||
| Lunch | ||||
| 14.00-14.30 | Helge Lødrup: Perception verbs are (also) control verbs: A Norwegian perspective | Ana Ibañez Moreno & Ana Ortigosa Pastor: On the existence of spatial adverbs in grammar: a functional account of intransitive prepositions | Jouko Lindstedt: Social history and language type: What could the Balkans show us? | |
| 14.35-15.05 | Anders Søgaard: K-structure – an Interlingua | Ildikó Vaskó & Thorstein Fretheim: Contrastive pragmatic analysis of two concessive markers - Norw. riktignok and Hung jóllehet. | Angela Bartens: The emergence of San Andresan Spanish | |
| 15.10-15.40 | Jóhanna Barðdal: Syntactic productivity | Albert Oosterhof: Generic NPs in Dutch | Helena Pirttisaari: Contact-induced changes in Finnish Romani | |
| Break | ||||
| 16.00-16.30 | Elisabet Engdahl, Kersti Börjars & Maia Andréasson: Word order in the Swedish midfield - an OT approach | Åsa Nordqvist: From silence to sound: Early spoken language development in deaf children who receive a cochlear implant | Torodd Kinn: Stribevis af eksperter,drøssevis av sjansar, hinkvis med kaffe: An emerging Scand. plural of abundance? | |
| 16.35-17.35 | John McWhorter: What happened to English? (Auditorium, 4th floor) | |||
| 19.00 | Conference dinner | |||
| Friday Jan 9 | Friday Jan 9 | Friday Jan 9 | Friday Jan 9 | |
| 09.00-09.30 | Pirita Pyykkönen, Jussi Niemi & Juhani Järvikivi: Clause type and clause order in the comprehension of temporal structures: Experiments with Finnish children | Sergey Say: Adnominal modifiers in the history of Lithuanian: syntactic functions and word order | ||
| 09.35-10.05 | Matti Leiwo & Åsa Nordqvist: Phonological and morphological complexity in writing | Mila Engelberg: Androcentricity in Finnish personal nouns | Thorsteinn G. Indridason: Historical productivity of some derivational suffixes in Icelandic | |
| 10.10-10.40 | Torodd Kinn: This article analyses ... - Research and writing in the writings of researchers | Elsi Kaiser: The role of contrast in pronoun interpretation: A look at the referential properties of the Estonian pronoun tema | Jouni Rostila: Lexicalization as a means of grammaticalization | |
| Break | ||||
| 11.00-12.00 | Geoffrey Sampson: The mythical language instinct | |||
| Lunch | ||||
| 13.30-14.00 | Arvi Hurskainen: Computational testing of five Swahili dictionaries | Björn Rothstein: Where anteriority is located in the German and Swedish perfect | Junichi Toyota: Old English: language with active alignment | |
| 14.05-14.35 | Janne Bondi Johannessen & Lars Nygaard: A phrase structure grammar for treebank use | Edmundo Luna: "Ajak of all trades": Problems with categorizing Balinese ajak in discourse | Foong Ha Yap, Pik-Ling Choi & Kam-Siu Cheung: Mapping Chinese morphemes across millenia (I): A diachronic study of di and its cognates | |
| 14.40-15.10 | Lilja Øvrelid: Disambiguation of syntactic functions in Norwegian: variation in word order conditioned by animacy and definiteness | John Payne and Katrin Hiietam: Numeral plus noun constructions and their headedness in Estonian and Izhorian | ||
| Closing words | ||||
| 15.15 | Business Meeting of the Nordic Association of linguists |