20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
Helsinki, January 7-9, 2004
Plenary and Section Papers (updated Jan.5, 2004)
University of Helsinki, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33

Plenaries
Auditorium 1,
2nd floor
Section I
Auditorium 5,
3rd floor
Section II
Auditorium 6,
3rd floor
Section III
Auditorium 13,
3rd floor






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.
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