Baltic Linguistics: new perspectives and methods

Baltic Linguistics: new perspectives and methods

November 21-22, University of Tromsø campus, University Library Building,

Room UB 244

November 21
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee and registration
10:00 – 11:00 Axel Holvoet “Non-directive imperatives in Baltic and elsewhere”
11:00 – 11:30 Antonio Fábregas “Why Lithuanian perfects allow low negation while Spanish does not”
11:30 – 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 – 12:20 Evelīna Zilgalve “The meaning of tag questions in Latvian”
12:20 – 12:50 Evgeniya Budennaya “Subject reference in Latvian: on the history of one presumed diachronic evolution”
12:50 – 14:30 Lunch and colloquium talk by Gary Thoms, NYU, at 13:00 in E0105
14:30 – 15:30 Ineta Dabašinskienė “What is specific about Baltic Research on child language acquisition?”
15:30 – 16:00 Marit Westergaard, Olga Urek & Agrita Tauriņa “Acquisition of adjectival gender agreement in monolinguals and bilinguals: evidence from Latvian and Russian”
16:00 – 16:30 Viktorija Kavaliauskaitė-Vilkinienė “Politeness markers in the role-play of preschool Lithuanian children”
17:30 Conference dinner at Árdna
November 22
10:00 – 11:00 Juris Grigorjevs “The results of the most recent acoustic study of the Latvian sound system”
11:00 – 11:30 Martin Krämer “The Phonetics and Phonology of Word Stress in Latvian”
11:30 – 12:00 Olga Urek “Palatalization in sC clusters in Latvian”
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Anna Daugavet “The use of Latvian necessity modals in complement clauses (a corpus-based study)”
14:00 – 14:30 Natalia Perkova “The līdzi-construction in Latvian: a corpus study”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30 Jolita Urbanavičienė “Paradigmatic relations and distinctive features of Lithuanian and Latvian consonants”
15:30 – 16:00 Jurgita Jaroslavienė “Vowel perception and production in Standard Lithuanian in the second decade of the 21st century”
16:00 – 16:30 Martin Krämer & Olga Urek “Acquisition of syllable structure in Latvian: experimental investigation”