PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

9.00 – 09.15:  Welcome

9.15 – 09.45:  Elisabet Engdahl  (GU, Göteborg): On morphosyntactic annotation of corpora

09.45 – 10.15:  Tor Anders Åfarli (NTNU, Trondheim): On the syntax of 'semantic' dative case in Norwegian dialects

10.15 – 10.30:  COFFEE

10.30 – 11.15:  David Adger (QM, London): Strings and structure: on the position of PP complements to N

11.15 – 11.45:  Joakim Nivre (UU, Uppsala): Inductive dependency parsing

11.45 – 12.15: Øystein A. Vangsnes (UiT, Tromsø): On the morphosyntax and functional migration of complex wh-expressions in North Germanic

12.15 – 13.15:  LUNCH

13.15 –14.00:   Joe Salmons (UW, Madison): Sound change after contact: How old immigration is still shaping American English

14.00–14.30:   Marit Julien (LU, Lund): Plus(s) at(t) in Scandinavian — a minimal matrix?

14.30 – 14.45:   COFFEE

14.45 – 15.30:  Floyd A. Reed (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön): On gene–culture coevolution

15.30 – 16.00:  Eckhard Bick (SDU, Odense): Annotating corpora for linguistics  

16.00 – 16.45:  Cecilia Poletto (UP, Padova): Linguistic variation side B: why do dialects look alike?