Schedule Spring 2021
Mondays, 12:00-13:00, Online. Send email to marta.velnic@ntnu.no if you would like to join on a specific day.
January 4
Discussion of Ortega (2019): “SLA and the study of equitable multilingualism”. Discussion lead by Roumyana Slabakova
January 11
Planning
January 18
January 25
Discussion of Hopp (2019): “Bilingual advantages in early foreign language learning: Effects of the minority and majority language”. Discussion lead by Marta Velnić
February 1
February 8
Discussion of Haspelmath (2020): “General linguistics must be based on universals (or nonconventional aspects of language)“. Discussion lead by Ragnhild Eik
February 15
Presentation of the RCN project GenVAC
February 22
Discussion of replies to Haspelmath (2020). Discussion lead by Kristin Klubbo Brodahl
March 1
Ragnhild Eik: “Compounding in Norwegian”
March 8
March 15
Ingrid Bondevik: “Exploring alternative accounts of the adjunct “island“”
March 22
Kjersti Faldet Listhaug: “Norwegian learners’ vocabulary size in French – project in preparation”
March 29
Easter break
April 5
Easter break
April 12
Colloquium: Craig Sailor (University of Edinburgh): “When silence takes scope: A vulgar argument for null operators in English innovative V2”
April 19
Amber Dudley and Roumyana Slabakova: “Examining L1 variation in eye-movement data and its implications for L2 acquisition: A focus on the French subjunctive”
April 26
Marta Velnić: “The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian: A reaction time study” (work conducted in collaboration with Merete Anderssen, UiT)
May 3
May 10
May 17
Public holiday
May 24
Public holiday
May 31
June 7
June 14
June 21