{"id":119,"date":"2017-03-03T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T07:28:15","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are also a <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/events-and-activities\/\">LAVA-specific events page<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/calendar\/calendar\/\">LAVA calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Regular events, spring 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Every <strong>Monday 12.00-12.15:<\/strong> CASTL Coffee at the Espresso Bar in Teorifagbygget<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Every <strong>Tuesday, 12.15-14.00:<\/strong> CASTLFish seminar, led by Gillian Ramchand, in A3012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Every <strong>Thursday, 12.00-13.00:<\/strong> LAVA Lunch, check the <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/lava-lunch-seminar\/\">LAVA Lunch page<\/a> for details and updates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Every <strong>Thursday, 14.15-16.00<\/strong>, Graduate seminar in Phonology: Beyond OT, led by Martin Kr\u00e4mer, in E1004<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Every <strong>Friday, 12.15.14.00<\/strong>, Phonology Reading Group, organized by Martin Kr\u00e4mer, A3012<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Some <strong>Fridays 14.15-16.00<\/strong> CASTL Colloquium, as announced, often in E0105, organized by Craig Sailor. See below under one-off events for specifics as they emerge.<\/p>\n<h1>One-off\u00a0events<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Spring 2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Wednesday May 29:<\/strong> Guest lecture by Omer Preminger, 10.30 in E0105: <a href=\"https:\/\/omer.lingsite.org\/files\/Preminger-Tromso-AAE-abstract.pdf\">The Anaphor Agreement Effect: Further evidence against binding as agreement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, May 31, 12.15:<\/strong> Colloquium talk by Omer Preminger, note earlier start time than usual, 12.15, E0105: <a href=\"https:\/\/omer.lingsite.org\/files\/Preminger-Tromso-HPC-abstract.pdf\">The PCC, the no-null-agreement generalisation, and clitic doubling as long head movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 3-4:<\/strong> AcqVA retreat in Troms\u00f8<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 16-22:<\/strong> LingPhil Summer School on Svalbard<\/p>\n<h2>Fall 2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>September 2-3<\/strong>: Workshop on <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/capturing\/\">Capturing and Quantifying Individual Differences in Bilingualism<\/a> in Troms\u00f8<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 5-6:<\/strong> Workshop on <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/utdanning\/emner\/emne\/620639\/hif-8038\">Aspect in the Arctic<\/a> organised by Laura Janda and featuring talks by Mar\u00eda Arche (Greenwich), \u00d6sten Dahl (Stockholm), Stephen Dickey (Kansas), Mila Vulchanova (NTNU), and local speakers Antonio F\u00e1bregas, Laura Janda, and Gillian Ramchand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 19-20:<\/strong>\u00a0<b><span lang=\"EN-US\">SPIPS \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/events\/segmental-processes-in-interaction-with-prosodic-structure-spips\/\">Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure<\/a><\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"> featuring keynote speakers Peter Jurgec (Toronto),\u00a0<\/span>Heather Newell (Montreal\/Troms\u00f8), Francesc Torres Tamarit (Paris), Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 2.4em\">Previous events<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday-Tuesday May 27-28:<\/strong> Workshop on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/workshop-on-thirty-million-theories-of-syntactic-features\/\">Thirty million theories of features<\/a>\u201d featuring Omer Preminger, Michelle Sheehan, Susana B\u00e9jar, Daniel Harbour, and Thomas Graf. In E0105.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 23-24<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/multigender-kick-off-seminar\/\">Kick-off event<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cas.oslo.no\/research-groups\/multigender-a-multilingual-approach-to-grammatical-gender-article2752-827.html\">Multigender<\/a> CAS project in Oslo led by Marit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 20-22<\/strong>: Kjell Johan S\u00e6b\u00f8 (UiO\/UiT) on Inquisitive semantics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday 1015-1200 in E2004<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday 1215-1400 TEO 5.302<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 1015-1200 E2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May 20-21<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/workshop-on-crosslinguistic-influence-uit-20-21-may-2019\/\">Workshop on Crosslinguistic Influence<\/a> in Troms\u00f8<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 7-9<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/glowlinguistics.org\/42\/\">GLOW<\/a> in Oslo<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 26:<\/strong> CASTL Colloquium by <a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~anttila\/\">Arto Anttila<\/a>, Stanford, on The Phonology of Nouns and Verbs<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd6ea6\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd6ea6\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>THE PHONOLOGY OF NOUNS AND VERBS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Nouns are known to be phonologically privileged (Smith 2011). Compared to other parts of speech, they support a greater array of phonological contrasts, a larger number of underlying distinctions, more variety in surface patterns, and a greater resistance to assimilations. Smith (2011) posits a universal privilege scale Noun &gt; Adjective &gt; Verb, pointing out that the evidence mostly involves prosodic phenomena. Why would such generalizations hold?\u00a0 In this talk, I will suggest that the answer is found in sentence stress.\u00a0 A preliminary study of sentential prominence in the inaugural addresses of six U.S. presidents (Anttila, Dozat, Galbraith, and Shapiro, to appear) shows that noun and adjective stresses are loud and mechanical, whereas verb and function word stresses are soft and meaningful. Sentence stress impacts different parts of speech differently, providing a rationale for systematic differences among nouns, adjectives, and verbs in their word phonology. I will conclude by showing how this view explains several puzzles in the lexical phonology of Finnish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>April 4-5:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/unitegen\/\">Uniting Gender Research workshop<\/a> in Troms\u00f8 &#8211; Nedre Lysthus on Thursday, UB auditorium on Friday; program <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/unitegen-program\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 18-19:\u00a0<\/strong>Mini-workshop with the Center for Language and Brain (HSE, Moscow). Monday, 09.30-15.30 in C1005; Tuesday, 09.30-12.00 in C1003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 15 12.15-14.00<\/strong> in SVHUM A3021: Natalia Kartushina (UiO) will present a guest lecture in the Phonology Reading Group:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>The interplay between the native and foreign phonologies in second-language speakers: Insights from articulatory training and language-learning programs in immersion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd7009\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd7009\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It is largely accepted that in bilinguals and second-language (L2) leaners the native (L1) and L2 sounds coexist in a common phonological space and constantly co-influence each other. The most known phenomenon is the L1 influences on L2 production, called having a \u2018foreign\u2019 accent in L2 speech. Generally, it happens when an L1 sound is used to produce a similar L2 sound(s) (e.g., the Japanese \/r\/ is used to produce the English \/r\/ and \/l\/ sounds). Accents is the most salient feature of L2 speech and might persist despite years of L2 experience and learning. While the effects of L1 on L2 production are well established, less is known about the impact of L2 learning and use on the production of native sounds. In the first part of the talk, I will present some recent techniques that have been developed to help second-language learners to get rid of their accents and will discuss the factors that contribute to better L2 sound learning. In the second part of the talk, I will present the results of recent studies on the influence of L2 learning and use on native sound production in novice learners and experienced L2 speakers immersed into an L2-speaking country. The results suggest position-sensitive and global interactions between native and non-native vowel systems and point out to malleability of native and foreign speech in adolescences and adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 15, 14.15<\/strong> in HUM E0105: Colloquium talk by Professor II Laura Downing:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Is Vowel Harmony a (P)Word phenomenon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd7089\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd7089\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>It is regularly asserted in surveys of vowel harmony systems that vowel harmony \u2018canonically\u2019 applies within the (P)Word. (See e.g.: Archangeli &amp; Pulleyblank 2007, Hyman 2002, Kaisse 2016, Kr\u00e4mer 2003, Polgardi 2006, Rose &amp; Walker 2011, van der Hulst &amp; van der Weijer 1995.) That is, the domain is roughly the word but can be smaller than the word due to phonological conditions on harmony. The \u2018word\u2019 is usually taken to refer to the phonological word, not the grammatical word, since compounds are often disharmonic. Indeed, vowel harmony is said to rarely cross lexical word boundaries, either within compounds or within phrases.<\/p>\n<p>However, if one focuses on African languages, one gets a different perspective on how closely the domain for vowel harmony matches the (P)Word. This talk will undertake a preliminary survey of vowel harmony domains from an Africanist perspective and present case studies from a variety of languages showing that it is relatively common for vowel harmony to apply in a domain that is either larger or smaller than the PWord. After introducing a sub-word system of harmony, Bantu VHH, the talk will focus on ATR harmony systems that take a phrasal domain and demonstrate that it is perhaps not as rare for vowel harmony to apply across word boundaries as has been asserted in the previous literature on this topic. The talk will end by raising the question:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 if phonologists had investigated ATR harmony systems first, would we have made the generalization that vowel harmony in general is a PWord-bound phenomenon?<\/p>\n<p>Selected references<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Archangeli Diana &amp; Douglas Pulleyblank. 2007. Harmony. In Paul de Lacy (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 353-378.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Hyman, Larry M. 2002. Is there a right to left bias in vowel harmony? Paper presented at the 9th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna, November 1, 2002.http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~hyman\/Hyman_Vienna_VH_paper_forma.pdf<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Kaisse, Ellen. 2016. What kinds of processes are postlexical? Ms., University of Washington. Kr\u00e4mer, Martin. 2003. Vowel harmony and correspondence theory. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Polg\u00e1rdi, Krisztina. 2006. Vowel harmony. LOT Dissertations.<br \/>\nRose, Sharon &amp; Rachel Walker. 2011. Harmony systems. In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle &amp; Alan C.L.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yu (eds.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 240-290. Van der Hulst, Harry &amp; Jeroen van der Weijer. 1995. Vowel harmony. In John Goldsmith (ed.), The<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Handbook of Phonological Theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 495-534.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>March 13\u201314 12.15-14.00<\/strong> in TEO 4.402 (Wednesday) and SVHUM E2001 (Thursday): Laura Downing talks about Phonology-Syntax issues in Phonology 2 at the Master&#8217;s level<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 8, 14.15<\/strong> in E0101: Colloquium talk by\u00a0S\u00edlvia Perpi\u00f1\u00e1n, from the Institute for Multilingualism at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>The Expression of Non-Personal Clitics in Catalan-Spanish Bilingualism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd70e9\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd70e9\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In this talk, I will present novel Catalan data from varying types of child and adult Catalan-Spanish bilinguals whose onset of acquisition to Catalan has been by age 3. \u00a0This cross-sectional study allows us to follow the development of several linguistic structures along childhood and observe the outcomes of prolonged language immersion in adulthood. By taking into account language dominance, measured through quantity and quality of input, onset of exposure, linguistic environment, and language identity, we want to contribute to the debate on the factors that characterize the outcomes of early bilingualism (Cornips &amp; Hulk, 2008; Meisel, 2009, 2011; Perpi\u00f1an, 2017; Tsimpli, 2014; Unsworth, 2013, Unsworth, Argyri, Cornips, Hulk, Sorace &amp; Tsimpli, 2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In particular, I will focus on the acquisition of Catalan non-personal clitics in three types of adult and child bilinguals: Spanish-dominant, Catalan-dominant and Balanced Bilinguals, from two different linguistic environments (Metropolitan area of Barcelona vs. Central Catalonia). Non-personal (or so-called \u2018adverbial\u2019) Catalan clitics <em>en<\/em>and <em>hi<\/em>are obligatory in Catalan to refer to partitive, locative, or oblique arguments. I will illustrate the phenomena with the partitive clitic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The partitive clitic in Catalan can be the direct object of a transitive verb or the subject of an unaccusative verb. Focusing on transitive verbs, I investigate the use of partitive clitics for indefinite (1a), and quantified (1b) direct objects:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">(1) a. La Clara \u00e9s al.l\u00e8rgica als fruits secs, per aix\u00f2 no *(en) menja.<br \/>\nThe Clara is allergic to fruits dry, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that\u2019s why no EN eats.<br \/>\n\u2018Clara is allergic to nuts, that\u2019s why she doesn&#8217;t eat them\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">b. Quants jugadors t\u00e9 un equip de futbol? *(En) t\u00e9 onze.<br \/>\nHow-many players has a team of football? EN has eleven.<br \/>\n\u2018How many players does a football team have? It has eleven.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Spanish does not have overt non-personal clitics, and this absence can be accounted for in two ways: 1- these forms are never generated in the syntax; 2- these forms are generated in the syntax but are phonologically lost in the spellout. These theoretical assumptions make different predictions as for the acquisition of these categories: do bilinguals need to create a new functional category or do they need to morphologically fill an already existing syntactic category? More generally speaking, we are interested in the mental representation of these categories in bilinguals whose languages vary in this respect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00a0The results from an oral production task and an acceptability judgment task in over 300 bilinguals (children and adults) show delayed and partial acquisition, even in bilinguals who live in predominantly Catalan speaking areas. We find quantitative and qualitative differences depending on the clitic, and certain simplification of the system in the bilingual grammar. These results corroborate what has been found in other stable bilingual societies (Spanish-Basque by Ezeizabarrena, 2012; English-Welsh by Gathercole &amp; Thomas, 2009) and raise questions regarding critical period effects in language development, and highlight the importance of quantity and quality of input received.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Friday, February 22<\/strong>, Colloquium talk by Nanna Haug Hilton (University of Groningen) at 14.15 in E0105 on Sociolinguistics with Smartphones in Minority Language Areas<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd7135\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd7135\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Sociolinguistics with Smartphones in Minority Language Areas: \u2018Stimmen\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This paper presents a tool for citizen science and sociolinguistic research: the application \u2018Stimmen\u2019 (Voices in Frisian). Citizen science is an umbrella term for projects in which the public partakes as data collectors, data processors, analysts, educators or formulators of research questions (cf. Bonney et al. 2016). While sociolinguists have made use of citizen science for a long time, recent technological developments, such as smartphones, have made it easier than ever to involve the public in our research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2018Stimmen\u2019 is inspired by language documentation efforts that rely on the public as collectors of speech recordings and translations, but with the inclusion of gamified components.\u00a0 To give users an incentive to use the app it contains a perceptual dialectology task that guesses where the user is from (within the Netherlands). Additionally, a picture naming task is available, designed specifically to collect speech data from lesser-used and oral languages. The picture-naming task consists of 88 different pictures (without text) that must be named by the user (in the language of their choice).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2018Stimmen\u2019 was launched in late 2017.\u00a0 More than 15,000 users have provided data so far, and more than 46,000 speech recordings have been made. This paper presents results from the perceptual dialectology task as well as the picture naming task. The discussion focusses on the Frisian data, and some changes within this minority language in the Netherlands. Two main findings are discussed: the fact that stereotypical regional features in Frisian have stable isoglosses; and that, in the \u2018Stimmen\u2019-data, language loss and regional dialect levelling cannot be sufficiently teased apart. The latter finding indicates that crowd-sourced data, e.g. from citizen science projects, must be enriched with additional qualitative methods, emphasising the importance of triangulation for investigations language change. I end with some comments about the value and future outlook of citizen science for studies of language variation and change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, January 25,<\/strong> at 14.15 in room E0105: Irina A. Sekerina (The City University of New York) will present a <strong>colloquium talk<\/strong> on the following topic:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psycholinguistics, Experimental Syntax, and Syntactic Theory of Russian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd718f\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd718f\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Since the introduction of formal experimental methods to syntactic theory (Cowart, 1997; Sch\u00fctze, 1996) implemented in experimental syntax (Myers, 2009; Sprouse et al., 2016), there is an ongoing debate about what experimental methods can tell us about syntactic theory. On the one hand, informal grammaticality judgments traditionally used in theoretical syntax are the necessary starting point for a systematic reflection on linguistic phenomena (Phillips, 2010). On the other, formal methods may be necessary to give us more precise and stable tools for developing the empirical basis of theories and thus significantly contribute to establishing these theories. However, a complete switch from informal judgments to formal experiments is costly in terms of time and money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this talk, I will explore a potential contribution of formal experimental data from adult participants to morphosyntactic theories by applying Sprouse\u2019s (2016) experimental syntax framework to Russian. In Study 1,\u00a0<em>Wh-Movement vs. Scrambling<\/em>, I will compare a syntactic explanation of filler-gap dependencies with an explanation from another cognitive system. In Study 2,\u00a0<em>Genitive of Negation<\/em>, I will discuss preliminary data from a factorial design experiment with a large sample that investigates constraints on usage of the genitive of negation in modern Russian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>November 21-22:<\/strong> \u00a0Conference on <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?page_id=736&amp;preview=true\"><strong>Baltic Linguistics: New Perspectives and Methods (BLing)<\/strong><\/a>, organized by Olga Urek<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd71d7\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"conference blurb\"    >conference blurb<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd71d7\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span lang=\"en-US\">CASTL (Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is pleased to announce the conference <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?page_id=736&amp;preview=true\"><em>Baltic Linguistics: New Perspectives and Methods<\/em><\/a> to be held in Troms\u00f8 on November 21-22, 2018. The main goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from around the world working on the Baltic languages within various theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives. We welcome submissions in the following areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0Syntax<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Phonology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0Morphology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">L1\/L2\/Ln Acquisition<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Historical linguistics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Experimental linguistics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Development of language resources<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Keynote speakers:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Ineta Daba\u0161inskien\u0117 (Vytautas Magnus University)<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Juris Grigorjevs (Latvian Language Institute, University of Latvia)<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Axel Holvoet (Vytautas Magnus University)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 21: Colloquium talk by Gary Thoms, NYU,<\/strong> 13.00 in E0105 &#8212; this colloquium talk is scheduled to coincide with a break in the program for the Baltic Linguistics conference<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd721e\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Abstract\"    >Abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd721e\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n<p>Title: Variation and the\u00a0<i><span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">amn<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">t<\/span><\/i>\u00a0gap<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This talk is concerned with &#8220;the\u00a0<i><span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">amn<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">t<\/span><\/i>\u00a0gap,&#8221; which refers to the absence of a negated form for the finite auxiliary\u00a0<i>am\u00a0<\/i>in most varieties of English. Bresnan (2001) notes that while the gap is persistent in the varieties of North America and England, things are interestingly different in Irish and Scots: in Irish English,\u00a0<i><span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">amn<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">t<\/span><\/i>\u00a0may be used in all syntactic contexts, and in Scots it may be used in inversion contexts (&#8220;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">amn<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">t<\/span>\u00a0I coming with you&#8221;) but not in declaratives (&#8220;I\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">amn<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">t<\/span>\u00a0coming with you&#8221;). Using new data from the Scots Syntax Atlas, I show that the empirical picture in Scotland is more complex and develop an account of dialectal variation with\u00a0<i><span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">amn<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"gmail-m_-1586948472440135136gmail-il\">t<\/span><\/i>\u00a0in terms of Yang&#8217;s (2016, 2017) Tolerance Principle, where it is the productivity of the negative affixation rule which is crucial.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lectures by Prof.\u00a0Kjell\u00a0Johan\u00a0S\u00e6b\u00f8\u00a0(UiO\u00a0and\u00a0UiT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Monday 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 1015-1200\u00a0\u00a0in E 1004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Recent developments in formal pragmatics, I and\u00a0II: Optimality theory and the Grammatical theory, part 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Tuesday 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 1215-1400 in B1003<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Recent developments in formal pragmatics, II and\u00a0III: The Grammatical theory, part 2, and Game and Decision theory<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Wednesday 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0November 0915-1200 E1004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Subjunctives in extensional contexts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, November 16: Colloquium talk by Andrew Weir, NTNU,<\/strong> 14.15 in E0105<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Verbal\u00a0<em>that<\/em>-anaphora in Norwegian and (dialects of) English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd725e\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Abstract\"    >Abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd725e\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Many Germanic languages use demonstrative pronouns as (what appears to be) verbal anaphora, such as German\u00a0<em>das<\/em>\u00a0(L\u00f3pez &amp; Winkler 2000 a.o.) and mainland Scandinavian\u00a0<em>det<\/em>\u00a0(L\u00f8drup 1994, 2012, Houser et al. 2007, Bentzen et al. 2013 a.o.):\u00a0<em>Har du sunget? \u2013 Jeg har det<\/em>\u00a0\u2018Have you sung? I have that\u2019. English seems like the odd man out in Germanic in not making such free use of demonstratives as verbal anaphora;<em>\u00a0<\/em>the closest equivalent to e.g. Norwegian\u00a0<em>det\u00a0<\/em>in English seems to be verb phrase ellipsis (\u2018Have you sung? I have.\u2019).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This talk places a spotlight on data from English varieties which\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0appear to have verbal\u00a0<em>that<\/em>-anaphora. Many speakers allow what appears to be a verbal-anaphoric use of\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 but only if\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0is fronted:\u00a0<em>John can make curry really well \u2013 That he can.<\/em>\u00a0And a few dialects of English allow\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0to appear in post-auxiliary position:\u00a0<em>John can make curry really well. \u2013 He can that!<\/em>\u00a0These structures make English look like less of an odd man out among Germanic varieties; however, it turns out that they show subtle differences from each other, and from Norwegian\u00a0<em>det<\/em>, in terms of syntax, semantics, and prosody. The talk aims to give an overview of how variation between the different English\u00a0<em>that<\/em>s, and between English\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0and Norwegian\u00a0<em>det<\/em>, might be accounted for \u2013 in the process trying to answer some mysterious lingering questions about the distribution and interpretation of\u00a0<em>det<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 26th: Workshop\u00a0in UB 244<\/strong> featuring talks by Prince, Alber, Trotzke, and Schumacher from the two minicourses. The workshop schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>10.00-11.00: Alan Prince<\/strong>, Rutgers. &#8216;Why patterns? From microstructure to macrostructure in OT&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/10\/Why-Patterns_2018_Tromso.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>11.00-12.00: Birgit Alber<\/strong>, Verona. &#8216;Typological analysis in OT: A basic typology of truncation&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/10\/TypTrunc_Tromso18.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">12.00-13.00: Lunch<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>13.00-14.00: Andreas Trotzke<\/strong>, Konstanz. &#8216;The syntax-emotion interface: A new approach to exclamatives&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd7288\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd7288\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">In this talk, I propose a new approach to exclamative sentences (i.e., sentences such as &#8220;What a nice city Troms\u00f8 is!&#8221;). I claim that exclamatives can denote both truth-conditional and expressive content, and that they should therefore be analyzed as multidimensional semantic objects. According to many current approaches, the descriptive content that &#8216;Troms\u00f8 is a nice city&#8217; is presupposed and not asserted; the exclamative thus contributes merely an emotive stance and lacks assertive force. I will first present and discuss recent experimental evidence contradicting this view and supporting the idea that the descriptive content of exclamatives is &#8216;at-issue&#8217;. In particular, I will demonstrate that the often-cited infelicity of certain reactions to particular exclamation forms (e.g., strong denial in the context of wh-exclamatives) is actually a very subtle matter. I will then turn to the issue to what extent exclamatives can serve as responses to questions, and I will discuss cases that suggest that some of the response uses can in fact count as assertion speech acts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>14.00-15.00: Petra Schumacher<\/strong>, K\u00f6ln. &#8216;The dynamic construction of prominence in discourse: Insights from personal and demonstrative pronouns&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd72b0\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd72b0\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">In this talk I will first present the notion of \u201cprominence\u201d as an organizational principle of language (Himmelmann &amp; Primus 2015) and then illustrate how this applies to reference. In the following the discourse functions of personal and demonstrative pronouns will be investigated. These pronouns are used to convey different discourse functions and thus shape the \u2018prominence profile\u2019 that organizes referents in discourse representation in particular ways. First, they refer to different entities available in discourse; second, they contribute to discourse progression by indicating maintenance or shifting of the prominence profile. The talk presents experimental data on the comprehension of personal pronouns and two types of demonstrative pronouns in German that illustrate how prominence profiles are dynamically constructed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>October 23-25 LingPhil minicourse on <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/utdanning\/emner\/emne\/571928\/lin-8007\">The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Bridging Theory and Experiment<\/a><\/strong>, featuring Andreas Trotzke and Petra Schumacher; organized by Tanja Kupisch and Jason Rothman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 22-24 <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/utdanning\/emner\/emne\/580832\/lin-8008\">LingPhil minicourse on Analyzing Linguistic Typologies with OTWorkplace and Property Theory<\/a><\/strong>, featuring Alan Prince, Birgit Alber, and Nazarr\u00e9 Merchant; organized by Martin Kr\u00e4mer<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 12, 14.15:<\/strong> Colloquium talk by \u00a0Aditi Lahiri, \u2018Journey of Words.\u2019 NB: Room B1003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 5: Colloquium talk by Coppe van Urk<\/strong> (QMUL); from 14:15 in E0105<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><b>VP-fronting in Imere and the stranding problem<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Coppe van Urk (QMUL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">It has been argued for a number of languages that basic word order is derived through an operation of VP-fronting (e.g. Kayne 1994; Massam 2001). However, many such analyses face an overgeneration problem: not all VP-internal material can appear in the fronted VP and must apparently always be stranded (Chung 2005; Massam 2010). This paper first provides novel evidence for VP-fronting in an SVO language, the understudied Polynesian outlier Imere (Vanuatu), also known as Mele-Fila. This VP-fronting analysis is motivated by the placement of postverbal adverbial particles, which appear between the verb and its objects but take scope right-to-left. VP-fronting of a phrase containing the verb and all particles provides a constituent within which these particles can be right-attached, accounting for inverse order. But this analysis too suffers from the stranding problem: VP-fronting cannot drag along any DPs, PPs, and CPs. At the same time, Imere otherwise has a familiar SVO VP, with no evidence of vacating movements or an unorthodox base-generated structure. Instead, I propose that VP-fronting is accompanied by an operation of distributed deletion (Fanselow and Cavar 2000), giving rise to the appearance of stranding. I suggest that distributed deletion is driven by a constraint that favors realizing only the verb, since it contributes the feature driving movement\u00a0 (e.g. Massam and Smallwood 1997; Coon 2010). Evidence for this approach comes from the observation that adverbial particles have a discontinuous scopal domain, exactly as predicted by distributed deletion: particles scope over other particles to the left, but over all objects to the right.\u00a0To answer the question of why some material can appear in the fronted VP alongside the verb, I examine the stranding problem in seven other VP-fronting languages, from four different language families. In all of these languages, dependents that front with the verb are always either a structurally reduced noun or an adverbial particle.\u00a0Building on Clemens (2014), I argue for a constraint that requires elements that are in a selectional relationship and are spelled out in the same phase to form a prosodic phrase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>September 28:<\/strong> <strong>Workshop on <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/l2-workshop-second-language-acquisition-linguistic-and-pedagogical-perspectives\/\">Second Language Acquisition: Linguistic and Pedagogical Practices<\/a><\/strong>, featuring Roumyana Slabakova, Kira Gor, Heather Marsden, and Tomas Shaw Rankin; organized by Yulia Rodina and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, September 10, Colloquium talk by Byron Ahn, Princeton: Mapping OUT- argument structure, 14.15 in E0105<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a1a915dd72e8\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"abstract\"    >abstract<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a1a915dd72e8\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In this talk, I explore the productive &#8216;<em>out<\/em>-PRED&#8217; phenomenon in English (e.g. <em>out-sing, out-do, out-run, out-smart<\/em>), in which a prefix &#8216;<em>out<\/em>-&#8216; can affix to (a sub-class of) predicates (&#8216;PRED&#8217;s), interacting with PRED&#8217;s argument structure in a surprising way.\u00a0 I draw the following novel generalizations about this phenomenon:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">(1) <em>out<\/em>-PRED inherits all of PRED&#8217;s morphophonological irregularities<br \/>\n(2) none of PRED&#8217;s internal arguments can surface in <em>out<\/em>-PRED<br \/>\n(3) if the interpretation of PRED depends on its internal argument, <em>out<\/em>-PRED is impossible<br \/>\n(4) <em>out<\/em>-PRED can always be passivized, even when PRED cannot be<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Together, these indicate that <em>out<\/em>&#8211; prefixation creates an argument structure that is syntactically distinct from that of PRED. I pursue an analysis in which <em>out<\/em>&#8211; merges with PRED before any of its internal argument(s) can merge, and the newly formed <em>out<\/em>-PRED projects its own argument structure with its own Voice-related properties such as passivizability. A core component of this analysis is that internal arguments of PRED-type predicates must be severed from the lexical predicate (i.e., introduced in a syntactic position outside of \u221aP\/VP). This adds to a growing literature that converges on the result that syntax transparently encodes Neo-Davidsonian semantic argument structure; i.e., all arguments in a predicate are introduced by individual semantic functions, which each in turn map onto individual functional projections in the syntax.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>August 24, 14.15: Colloquium talk by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chu.cam.ac.uk\/people\/view\/shigenori-wakabayashi\/\">Shigenori Wakabayashi<\/a>,\u00a0Chuo University, in room E0105.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Second language acquisition and use of grammatical rules: What underlies certain morphosyntactic asymmetries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">In this talk, we will see data from second language research concerning asymmetries between free and bound morphemes, between infinitive forms <em>to V <\/em>and gerund forms <em>V-ing<\/em>, and between small causes and tensed clauses; and also the effect of a lack of L1 transfer in certain properties of psych verbs. Based on the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995) and on Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz, 1993), I will explain how interlanguage grammars are structured and used: First and second languages are both based on innate linguistic knowledge, but an L2-specific \u2018economy principle\u2019 is likely to operate in second language grammar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 23, 12.00: LAVA Lunch talk by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.c.chuo-u.ac.jp\/researcher\/profile\/00010136.html?lang=en\">Shigenori Wakabayashi<\/a>,\u00a0Chuo University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Multiple causes for missing\u00a0<em>-s<\/em>\u00a0and a single cause for overused\u00a0<em>be<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>in L2 English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Many studies have tried to specify the right answer to a persistent epistemological inquiry for L2 learner behavior: Why do very advanced L2 learners have difficulty in using inflectional morphemes, typically substituting bare forms for inflected forms? Based on data from a series of studies by Wakabayashi and colleagues concerning 3<sup>rd<\/sup> person singular <em>-s<\/em>, it will be shown that the causes lie at multiple steps, namely, in feature selection in the Lexicon, derivation in Syntax, and mapping syntactic structure onto morphological forms in Morphology. In addition, data of overused <em>be<\/em> with unaccusative verbs (Oshita, 2000) and <em>do<\/em> in subject <em>wh<\/em>-questions (Fujii, 2017) will also be shown and discussed. Based on the description and explanation for these phenomena, it will be argued that L2 researchers should always refer to a general model of morpho-syntactic knowledge and its use when seeking to explain and describe L2 learners\u2019 behavior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/events\/events-in-spring-2018\/\">Events in Spring 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/events\/events-in-2017\/\">Events in 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/events\/events-in-2016\/\">Events in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are also a LAVA-specific events page\u00a0and a LAVA calendar. Regular events, spring 2019 Every Monday 12.00-12.15: CASTL Coffee at the Espresso Bar in Teorifagbygget Every Tuesday, 12.15-14.00: CASTLFish seminar, led by Gillian Ramchand, in A3012. 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