On the day following Maud’s defence, Thursday 31st, there will be a workshop featuring the members of the doctoral committee, Professor Caroline Heycock from The University of Edinburgh, Professor Sten Vikner from Aarhus University, and our very own Peter Svenonius, as well as a couple of additional local fellows. The workshop will be held from 12.00-16.00 The program follows below.
The Westendorp Post Defense Workshop
Place: Auditorium, Nedre Lysthus
Time: Thursday 31st March, 12.00–16.00
12.00–12.40 Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Try and understand! Imperatives and pseudo-coordination in Faroese
12.40–13.20 Peter Svenonius (UiT)
The linearization of verbs in Germanic
13.20–13.35 Break
13.35–14.15 Sten Vikner & (Aarhus University) & Jürg Fleischer (Phillips-Universität Marburg)
Are there OV languages that also allow VO? About and-infinitives in South Schleswig
(Hand-out of a recent version of the talk with abstract on p. 2: www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/engsv/handouts/vikner-fleischer-ho-2022-and-infinitives-in-South-Schleswig.pdf)
14.15–14.45 Kristine Bentzen (UiT)
Object placement in North Sami: The alternation between VO and OV
(Norwegian version of the paper available here https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8483)
14.45–15.00 Break
15.00–15.30 Björn Lundquist (UiT)
Embedded V2: it’s about mood, not style
15.30–16.00 Maud Westendorp & Øystein A. Vangsnes (UiT)
Word order variation in wh-questions in Sogn: syntactic and prosodic factors
(Draft paper available here https://uitno.app.box.com/s/1ejai6t1gp7rvndl99tmh6zme9jn1snu)
