Preliminary program
Thursday, Sept. 16
9:00 Introduction
Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons, UiO and UW
9:15 Two dialects, one syntax: Wisconsin High German as relexified Pomeranian
Mark Louden, UW
10:00 Wisconsin West Frisian morphophonology
Joshua Bousquette and Todd Ehresmann, UW
10:45 Break
11:15 Einar Haugen’s study of Norwegian in America, within a Matrix Language-Frame-model adapted to Principles and Parameters
Tor A. Åfarli, NTNU
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Intricacies of interrogative morphosyntax across Norwegian dialects
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes and Marit Westergaard, UiT
2:15 The distribution of verb particles in some Norwegian dialects
Leiv Inge Aa, NTNU
3:00 Break
3:30 Syntactic stability and change in American German
Dan Nützel and Joe Salmons, IUPUI and UW
4:15 Preliminary investigations into immigrant Norwegian dialects in 2010
Janne Bondi Johannessen, and Signe Laake, UiO
Friday, Sept. 17
9:30 The Nordic Dialect Corpus and Database
Janne Bondi Johannessen, UiO, and Kristin Hagen, UiO
10:15 Some features of Scandinavian and Germanic influence on the English language in the Midwest
Bert Vaux, Cambridge University
11:00 Break
11:45 TBA
Unn Røyneland and Bente Ailin Svendsen
12:30 Lunch
2:00 TBA
Pia Lane and Elizabeth Lanza
2:45 The language of Gudbrandsdal immigrants in the 1980s
Arnstein Hjelde, HiØ
3:30 Break
4:00 What remains of Norwegian in Minnesota and Wisconsin
Louis Janus, University of Minnesota
4:45 Closing discussion
Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons, UiO and UW