Previous conferences

2021

The 26th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

UPDATE: The LFG conference will be organized entirely online and the dates have been changed to July 13-16. The website of the digital conference is here:

https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2021/

2020

12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL12)

The Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Research Group is pleased to announce that its twelfth international conference – APLL12 – will be held as a digital event.

Tid: 18. juni 2020 09:00–20. juni 2020 17:00

The purpose of the APLL conferences is to provide a venue for presentation of the best current research on Austronesian and Papuan languages and linguistics and to promote collaboration and research in this area. APLL12 follows previous APLL conferences held in Leiden, Surrey, Paris and London, and the Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL) conferences held at SOAS and St Catherine's College, Oxford. 

Keynote speakers

• Birgit Hellwig, University of Cologne: Language documentation, acquisition and socialization: The sketch acquisition manual.
• Daniel Kaufman, City University of New York: Decoupling the relation-marking and transitivity-marking functions of Austronesian voice.

Early career plenary speakers

• Jens Hopperdietzel, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin: On the composition of manner and result: Causative secondary predicates in Oceanic.
• Katherine Anne Strong, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and Kate L. Lindsey, Boston University: Sociophonetic variation in the South Fly: Evidence from Ende (abstract; this talk will be pre-recorded and provided with captions.)

Local organisers

• Åshild Næss
• Jozina Vander Klok
• Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand

2019

Workshop: Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase

A two-day workshop on Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase. All are welcome to come and listen to one or more of the talks!

Time and place: 5. des. 2019 09:00–6. des. 2019 13:00, Niels Trechows hus, 12th floor

Focus

The focus of this workshop is on syntactic change in the verbal domain, ranging from changes at earlier language stages to recent and ongoing changes in typologically different languages. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who work on verbal syntax from a historical perspective from different theoretical orientations.

Keynote speakers 

• Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
• Peter Petré (University of Antwerp)

Organizers

The workshop is organized by the Language Change Research Group.

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Generative Linguistics in the Old World conference (GLOW 42)

The 42nd Generative Linguistics in the Old World conference (GLOW 42)  will be held at the University of Oslo. The conference will consist of a main colloquium and three thematic workshops.

Time and place: May 7, 2019–May 11, 2019, Sophus Bugges hus and Harald Schjelderups hus, University of Oslo

For the main colloquium, scholars are invited to submit and present papers within all areas of generative linguistics. Submissions on phonological topics are especially welcome.

Program

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• Workshop 1: Anaphora at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in endangered and understudied languages
  • Invited speaker: Sarah Murray (Cornell University)
  • Organizers: Patrick G. Grosz (University of Oslo) & Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley)
• Workshop 2: Rules and Learning Strategies in the Acquisition of Signed and Spoken Phonologies
  • Invited speakers: Diane Brentari (University of Chicago), Bill Idsardi (University of Maryland), and Dinah Baer-Henney (Universität Düsseldorf)
  • Organizers: Julian K. Lysvik (University of Oslo) & Andrew Nevins (UCL)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 

• Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London): VP-fronting in Imere and the stranding problem
• Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig): Faded Copies: Reduplication as Sharing of Activity
• Jairo Nunes (University of São Paulo): Edge features and phase head allomorphy
• Yasutada Sudo (University College London) and Daniele Panizza (University of Göttingen): Minimal Sufficiency Readings with a Covert ‘Even’
• Markus Alexander Pöchtrager (University of Vienna): Towards a non-arbitrary account of affrication
• Poster session

Thursday 9 May 2019 

• András Bárány (SOAS University of London) & Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University): When dependent case is not enough
• Clàudia Pons-Moll (Universitat de Barcelona), Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Paris 8 / CNRS) and Vlad Martin-Diaconescu (Institut Català d’Investigació Química): Catalan nativization patterns in the light of Weighted Scalar Constraints
• Gregor Williamson (University College London): Adverbial Adjunct Clauses and their LFs
• Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Martin Salzmann (University of Leipzig) and Philipp Weisser (University of Leipzig): Forming Verb Clusters Postsyntactically: Evidence from Udmurt and Mari
• Zahra Mirrazi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Neg-Raising: A View From Indefinites
• Jade Sandstedt (University of Edinburgh): A reanalysis of (non-)exceptional patterns in Bondu-so tongue root harmony
• Pietro Cerrone and Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut): Testing split-intransitivity: an experimental investigation of two diagnostics in Italian

Friday 10 May 2019 

• Elsi Kaiser and Sarah Hye-Yeon Lee (University of Southern California): On the generalizability of subjective opinions: Predicates of personal taste and multidimensionality
• Barbara Citko (University of Washington) and Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University): Conjunction Saves Multiple Sluicing: How *(and) Why?
• Poster session
• Alison Biggs (Georgetown University) and David Embick (University of Pennsylvania): Event structural properties of the English get-passive
• Pavel Caha (Masarykova Univerzita), Karen De Clercq (Ghent University), Michal Starke (Tromsø University) and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): How to be positive

Saturday 11 May 2019

• Workshop 3: Generative Linguistics beyond Language: Shared Modules for Rhythm, Narration and Emotion across Domains

  • Invited speakers: Caroline Palmer (McGill University) and Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University)

  • Organizers: Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Oslo, ILN) & Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo, Musicology). This workshop is organized in conjunction with a centre of excellence, RITMO: Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

2018

Affects of Diversity in Nordic Literature - DINO 2018 Conference

The network ”Diversity in Nordic Literature” (DINO) will be hosting its 6th conference at the Department of Linguistic and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo..

Tid: 1. nov. 2018 09:00–2. nov. 2018 17:00

Conference theme

Being different may be a source of pride as well as a source of shame. How does it feel to be “different” in the Nordic countries? And how does it feel to be “different” as Nordic in a global perspective, a perspective in which the Nordic countries are currently hailed as the happiest, wealthiest, and most egalitarian nations on earth? Being/feeling different may be valued positively as well as negatively; it may serve constructive as well as destructive purposes; it may be inclusive as well as exclusive.

We assume some of the significant emotions related to experiences of Nordic difference and diversity in the North, are (and have been) pride, guilt, and shame. Shame and guilt are social emotions linked in various ways to collective and individual identities. The conference focus is on positions of perceived difference from which notions of Nordic identities may be questioned and negotiated through affective work. Or perhaps they are simply maintained through affective work.

Our attention is drawn to minority groups experiencing various forms of shaming within and outside the North, whether one is made to feel ashamed of one’s racial, ethnic, linguistic, or sexual background and orientation. Ablebodiedness may likewise be an issue. Our attention is likewise drawn to majority groups feeling more or less guilty or justified in their positions of privilege.

Keynote speakers

• Jill Locke, Professor in Political Science and Program Director in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College.
• Devika Sharma, Associate Professor of Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen.
• Sumaya Jirde Ali, feminist activist and author, in conversation with Kristina Leganger Iversen

Organizers

The conference is organized by the DINO steering committee and by the ScanGuilt research group. The conference has received funding from the Research Council of Norway and The Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Oslo (through their financing of the ScanGuilt-project).

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Workshop: Discourse Functions of Demonstratives

This two-day workshop focuses on the functions of demonstratives and related forms as discourse-structuring devices beyond their already well-described reference tracking and discourse-deictic uses.

Tid og sted: 14. juni 2018–15. juni 2018, Seminar room 1, Sophus Bugges hus

The class of forms referred to as ‘demonstratives’ is large and varied, both crosslinguistically and often within individual languages. Traditional classifications of demonstrative forms (e.g. Diessel 1999, Dixon 2003) focus especially on the deictic distinctions made in demonstrative systems, and the morphology, syntax and grammaticalisation of demonstrative forms. Apart from being used in exophoric function, it is also well established that demonstratives often show endophoric functions. Himmelmann (1996), among others, discusses the use of demonstratives in introducing, identifying and tracking referents in discourse.

Beyond reference-tracking and discourse deixis, there is evidence that demonstratives are linked to a range of further discourse functions which have not been generally acknowledged in the typological literature (see e.g. functions discussed by Reesink 1987, de Vries 1995, François 2001, 2005, Schapper and San Roque 2011, Kratochvil 2011). Furthermore, despite extensive research over the last decades on demonstrative systems cross-linguistically and within individual languages, we know surprisingly little about markedness distinctions in demonstrative paradigms (Himmelmann 1997), i.e. about which member is the unmarked choice in a particular type of use and which member (and in which use) has the tendency to further grammaticalise into which target domain.

Workshop

This two-day workshop focuses on the functions of demonstratives and related forms as discourse-structuring devices beyond their already well-described reference tracking and discourse-deictic uses.

We are interested in

• functions including the foregrounding or backgrounding of information (e.g. referents, events, stretches of discourse), marking presupposed or asserted information, marking discourse topics, marking stretches of discourse as forming a unit, clause-linking and subordination-like functions, as well as functions relating to information structure (i.e. clause-level topic/focus relations).
• how the structure of a demonstrative paradigm interacts with discourse functions. That is, does the type of system (person-based vs. distance-based) and/or the number of contrasts within the system (two-term, three-term, larger systems) have any impact on which member(s) of the paradigm take on specific functions?
• little-studied discourse functions of demonstratives referring to persons, places and objects, but also in demonstratives expressing other ontological categories (e.g. manner, quality, degree, quantity), as well as contributions on the discourse function of presentative demonstratives.

Program

Thursday

• Welcome and introduction: Anna Margetts, Åshild Næss, Yvonne Treis, Jozina Vander Klok
• Maria Khachaturyan: From recognitional function to topicalization and pragmatic backgrounding: discourse functions of demonstratives in Mano, Southern Mande
• Ernanda & Foong-Ha Yap: From spatio-temporal deixis to attitudinal deixis: An analysis of proximal and distal demonstratives in Kerinci Malay
• Chingduang Yurayong: Discourse functions of the postposed demonstratives in Eastern Finnic languages
• Merlijn Breunesse & Holger Diessel: A typology of clause-combining demonstratives
• Doris L. Payne and Alejandra Vidal: Demonstratives in Pilagá discourse: Pragmatic uses and grammaticalization
• Tatiana Nikitina: Demonstratives with fixed reference in narrative texts in Wan
• Simon Musgrave, Gede Primahadi Wijaya Radeg & Howard Manns: Managing conversation: the manner demonstrative gitu in spoken Indonesian
• Denys Teptiuk: Manner deictics as quotative indexes in Finno-Ugric
• Vanja Vasiljevic: Instrumental and the development of manner demonstratives in the history of English
• Ekkehard König: Beyond exophoric and endophoric uses: Additional discourse functions of demonstratives

Friday

• František Kratochvíl: Maintenance of joint attention and expression of stance and perspective: discourse functions of Abui demonstratives
• Eline Visser: Kalamang opa: shifting the attention to common ground
• Stefan Schnell: Information-packaging effects of attention focus in Vera’a narrative discourse
• Eleanor Ridge: Morphosyntactic and functional asymmetries in Vatlongos demonstratives
• Janne Bondi Johannessen: Psychologically distal demonstratives
• Melanie Fuchs & Petra B. Schumacher: Topic shift potential of German demonstrative pronouns
• Hiwa Asadpour: Demonstratives in Mukri Sorani discourse
• Maria Reile, Piia Taremaa, Tiina Nahkola & Renate Pajusalu: Discourse functions of demonstrative adverbs in Estonian, Finnish and Russian in spatial reference settings
• Heather Bliss & Martina Wiltschko: Stsíkiistsi ki stsíkiistsi: The ubiquity of Blackfoot demonstratives in discourse
• Donna Gerdts & Nancy Hedberg: Deixis meets discourse: An analysis of the Halkomelem determiner system
• Don Killian: TAM marking in demonstrative systems

Organising committee

• Åshild Næss, University of Oslo
• Jozina Vander Klok, University of Oslo
• Anna Margetts, Monash University
• Yvonne Treis, CNRS-LLACAN

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NoSLiP 2018

NoSLiP is a conference for graduate students, organized by graduate students, on behalf of the Norwegian Graduate Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology (LingPhil). The scope of the conference is rather broad, we welcome submissions from all areas of linguistics and philology.

Time and place: 15. feb. 2018 08:30–16. feb. 2018 18:00

Invited speakers

• Loraine K. Obler (City University of New York)
• Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford)
• Martin Haspelmath (University of Leipzig)
• Terje Lohndal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology; The Arctic University of Norway)

2013

Changing Functions of Criticism

Writing the Cultural History of Literary Critical Reception.

Time and place: 14-16 August, 2013. Georg Sverdrup's House, University of Oslo.

Changing Functions of Criticism marks the culmination of a research project entitled The History of Literary Critical Reception in Norway, 1870-2000: Value-Judgments and Mediation. The project is a co-operation between researchers affiliated with different institutions in Norway.

The History of Literary Critical Reception in Norway, 1870-2000: Value-Judgments and Mediation

The field of literary criticism and reviewing is constituted in the interface between creative writing, journalism and scholarship as well as other cultural discourses.

For this reason literary critical response is an ideal object for analyzing dominant cultural values as they change – or remain – over time.

The research project will examine shifting and recurrent values of judgment, aesthetically and ideologically, and investigate how the norms have been manifested in the rhetorical styles, publicity forms and the social functions of literary critical response in the course of time.

The project is especially focusing on the Norwegian institution of criticism as it has developed since the Modern Breakthrough, in a print based culture, into the audio-visual and digital publics of today.

Literary scholars from the universities of Trondheim, Oslo, Bergen and Kristiansand as well as the National Library of Norway are co-operating in analyzing a wide specter of critical material from the period 1870-2010: mainly book reviews and essays from newspapers and magazines, but also literary journalism exercised in electronic media.

The empirical material will be registered in a digital bibliography.

The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway for the period 2009-2013.

Keynote speakers

• Terry Eagleton, Professor of English Literature.
• Jeremy Treglown, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.
• Anne-Marie Mai, Professor of Danish Literature at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
• Jostein Gripsrud, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen.

Organizing Committee

• Marianne Stensland, University of Oslo, conference coordinator
• Thorstein Norheim, University of Oslo (Scandinavian Studies)
• Tore Slaatta, University of Oslo (Media Studies)
• Trond Haugen, The National Library of Norway
• Sissel Furuseth, NTNU, the University of Trondheim, project manager

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Arthur of the North

The first international conference organised by the Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society.

Time and place: May 23, 2013 1:00 PM–May 25, 2013 4:00 PM, Aud. 7, Eilert Sundt's House

The International Arthurian Society is a network of people who take a scholarly interest in the literature, art and film, of all periods, which is centred on the Arthurian legends, and the history and archaeology of the post-Roman and early Mediaeval period in Western Europe.

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Language, Culture, and Identity in Migrant Narratives

Closing conference: SKI («Språk-Kultur-Identitet») project.

Time and place: Thursday 23 May 13:15 – 17:15 – Friday 24 May 2013 10:15 – 15:15 Helga Engs hus Aud 3.

Program

Thursday

• Prologue: Victor Mutelekesha exposition: ”Shadow of my shadow”
• About the SKI project: Elizabeth Lanza, project leader
• Guest lecturer: Mike Baynham, Leeds University, UK Identity: Brought about or brought along?
• SKI presentations, part 1: Contesting identities
  • Bjørghild Kjelsvik/ SKI: “I have no family” – Identity constructions in an asylum interview
  • Annika B. Myhr/ SKI: The story of your life: Asylum seekers in Maria Amelie’s and Mikhail Shishkin's narratives
  • Veronica Pájaro/ SKI: Categorizations, language ideologies and the construction of professional identities in job interview narratives
• 16:30 Guest lecturer: Klas Grinell, Museum of World Culture, Sweden Narrations of/as belonging

Friday

• Guest lecturer: Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, USA Narrative analysis and the study of immigrant identities
• SKI presentations, part 2: Negotiating Belonging
  • Ingeborg Kongslien/ SKI: Literature of migration in Scandinavia: Translingual and transnational
  • Pia Lane/ SKI: “It feels like now this is in our own language”: Religion, authenticity and belonging
  • Elizabeth Lanza and Anne Golden/ SKI: Personal and professional identities at the crossroads in a migration context SKI presentations
• SKI presentations, part 3: Wielding metaphors
  • Saphinaz Amal Naguib/ SKI: Visual metaphors of migration in museums of cultural history
  • Anne Golden and Elizabeth Lanza/ SKI: Metaphors of language learning in migrants’ identity construction
• Guest lecturer: Sten Pultz Moslund, University of Southern Denmark Rethinking hybridity through the perspectives of intention, time, place and aesthetics
• Roundtable discussion: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of narrative and identity? 

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NODALIDA 2013

The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) welcomes you to NODALIDA 2013.

Time and place: May 22 - May 24. 2013, Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern, University of Oslo.

NODALIDA addresses all aspects of speech recognition and synthesis, natural language processing, and computational linguistics — including work in closely related neighbouring disciplines (such as, for example, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. 

Key speakers

• Ron Kaplan, Nuance Communications and Stanford University, USA: The Conversation User Interface
• Caroline Sporleder, University of Trier, Germany: Detecting and Processing Figurative Language in Discourse
• Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: 6,909 Reasons to Mess Up Your Data

Workshops

• Second Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Workshop on Computational Historical Linguistics
• Workshop on Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP
• Workshop on Nordic Language Research Infrastructure

Programme committee

• Lars Ahrenberg, Linköping University, Sweden
• Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Mikko Kurimo, Aalto University, Finland
• Stephan Oepen (Programme Chair), University of Oslo, Norway
• Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Bolette Sandford Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Victoria Rosén, University of Bergen, Norway

Local organization committee

• Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
• Kristin Hagen, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
• Janne Bondi Johannessen (Local chair), Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
• Anders Nøklestad, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
• Erik Velldal, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
• Lilja Øvrelid, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

2012

Euralex Norway 2012

Welcome to the 15th EURALEX International Congress, hosted by the University of Oslo 7-11 August, 2012.

The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, software developers, and others interested in dictionaries of all types.

The programme offers plenary lectures, parallel sessions on these topics:  

• Lexicography and national Identity
• Indigenous Languages and Lexicography
• Corpus-driven Lexicography
• Lexicography in Language Technology
• Multilingual Lexicography
• Lexicography and semantic Theory
• Terminology, LSP and Lexicography
• Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects

The programme also includes a special session for work-in-progress, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests.

Plenary speakers

• Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen, Director General at Language Council of Norway, Professor of General Linguistics: Diversity and democracy: written varieties of Norwegian
• Ole Henrik Magga, Professor of Sami languages, Sámi University College: Lexicography and indigenous languages
• Bolette Sanford Pedersen, Professor in Language Technology at The University of Copenhagen: Lexicography in Language Technology (LT)
• The Hornby Lecture: Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief Macmillan Dictionaries, Director, Lexicography MasterClass: It works in practice but will it work in theory? The uneasy relationship between lexicography and matters theoretical
• Closing/Summary: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Dept of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium, Professor of African Linguistics & Xhosa Dept, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, Extraordinary Professor: Lexicography in the Crystal Ball: Facts, trends and outlook

Programme Committee

• Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld (chair), Section of Lexicography, University of Oslo
• Janne Bondi Johannessen, Text Laboratory, University of Oslo
• Tor Erik Jenstad, Norsk Ordbok, NTNU
• Anne Dykstra, Fryske Akademy
• Andrea Abel, Accademia Europea di Bolzano
• Lars Trap-Jensen, Society for Danish Language and Literature

Organisers

The congress is organised by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, and the Language Council of Norway.

2011

LIZPOSIUM On the occasion of Elizabeth’s 60th birthday

Friday November 18th 2011 in sem.rom 454 PAM

Program

• Welcome by Anne Golden & Pia Lane
• Sally Boyd: When Family Language Policy meets Language Maintenance and Shift.
• Ingeborg Kongslien: The narrator as protagonist in novels of migration: Appropriation and selftranslation. 10.55 Saphinaz-Amal Naguib: Trunks, suitcases, bags and their poetics
• Pia Lane: Stories of language choice. An intergenerational study of language shift.
• Jan Svennevig: The development of hostility in a fatal emergency call
• Anne Golden: The pleasure of company: focus groups, narratives, metaphors, and agency
• Bjørghild Kjelsvik: Those stories cropping up. Narrative analysis worming its way into a linguist's life.
• Unn Røyneland & Bente Ailin Svendsen: Youth Language Practices on the Web and in Media Discourse. 

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ISB8 - International Symposium on Bilingualism Oslo 2011

Tuime and place: June 15 to June 18, 2011. The university of Oslo.

Chair of the conference

Professor Elizabeth Lanza.

Keynote Speakers

• Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg, Deutschland: Code alternation online: Digital environments, polylingual resources, emergent practices
• Ceil Lucas, Gallaudet University, USA: Language contact between dialects:  The case of African American English and Black American Sign Language

• Sari Pietikäinen, Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Suomi: Single norms and diverse realities: Multilingual dynamics in Sámiland 

• Annick De Houwer, Universität Erfurt, Deutschland: Harmonious bilingual development

• Kees de Bot, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nederland: Not my time of day! Circadian rhythms in language processing and learning

Local organizing committee

• Elizabeth Lanza

• Thomas Hylland Eriksen

• Anne Golden

• Pia Lane

• Unn Røyneland

• Bente Ailin Svendsen

• Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen

• Bjørghild Kjelsvik

• Kristin Vold Lexander

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The Visions Conference 2011

Visions for Teaching and Teacher Education: In view of a new knowledge base for Teacher Education, Language Learning and Math/Science Education

Time and place: 18. may 2011–20. may 2011, University of Oslo

The conference is jointly organised by programmes operated by the Faculty of Educational Sciences and the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies.

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NorClinLing Conference 2011

The 2nd Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics.

Time: May 5-7, 2011. 
Place: Sanner Hotell, Gran. 

The program will consist of a combination of plenary talks and general oral and poster sessions on topics related to clinical linguistics, including clinical phonetics and assessment, treatment and methodology in speech and language pathology.

Plenary speakers

• Professor Roelien Bastiaanse, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 
  • Verb retrieval, verb inflection and time reference in agrammatic aphasia
• Professor Judy S. Reilly, San Diego State University
  • Degrees of neuroplasticity: Language development in children with early brain injury

Organising committee

The conference is organised by the Research Group in Clinical Linguistics and Language Acquisition at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo.

• Ingeborg Dalby
• Nina Gram Garmann
• Kristian Emil Kristoffersen
• Marianne Lind
• Inger Moen
• Hanne Gram Simonsen

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored by:

• The Research Council of Norway
• Letterstedtska föreningen

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The Child and the Book 2011

The eighth annual The Child and the Book Conference for graduate and postgraduate scholars, April 8-10, 2011. 

The conference is hosted by The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN) at the University of Oslo, Norway.

About the Conference

The Child and the Book is an international conference which offers graduate and post graduate scholars the opportunity to present papers on their current research in the interdisciplinary field of children’s literature.

The Child and the Book is an annual event (since 2004) which attracts delegates from all over the world and provides a unique opportunity for researchers in children's literature to meet, present and discuss their research.

Keynote speakers

• Nina Christensen, Director at Centre for Children’s Literature, Denmark
• Svein Nyhus, author and illustrator, Norway

Organisers

Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN), University of Oslo, in cooperation with The Norwegian Institute for Children’s literature (Norsk barnebokinstitutt).

Contact person 

Associate Professor Åse Marie Ommundsen