Departmental linguistics seminar
The Departmental linguistics seminar is a seminar series where linguistic researchers and students can present their work.
The seminars are held irregularly on Fridays during the semester and take one hour including discussion. Most seminars are in English, but some are in Norwegian. The events are open for everyone. Welcome!
Time and place: 14:00 to 15:00, usually in HW536, but check the relevant event
Want to present something? Send an email to Linn Iren.
See also departmental linguistics seminars held between 2015 and 2018.
Upcoming
This week, George Bennett (UCL London) presents the main points from his MA thesis.
Previous
This week, Ali H. Birahimani talks about aspiration in Balochi (an Iranian language of western Asia).
Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand explores occurrences of VS order in an SV language.
Professor Hans-Olav Enger gives a talk about the (lack of) Sámi influence on Scandinavian grammar. Note: this talk will be given in Norwegian.
Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Postdoctoral fellow at IFIKK, presents findings from an experiment comparing children and adult's imprecise interpretations of adjectives.
Chris Kennedy visits from the University of Chicago.
Aleese Block, visiting Oslo from UC Davis, talks about the production and perception of word-final devoicing in German across text-to-speech and naturally-produced utterances.
A guest lecture by Sendy Caffarra.
Helge Lødrup will talk about Norwegian verbs.
Camilo Rodríguez Ronderos talks about words like "fucking" and how it is processed in conversation.
by Georgia Zellou (University of California, Davis)
Ian Joo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), currently a visiting PhD student at Uppsala University, presents a phonological database he and his colleague Yu-Yin Hsu are building.
Henrik Torgersen will give a naiselais seminar about a previously undescribed way of diminutivizing process in Norwegian.
Pritty Grosz-Patel postpones her talk to next semester.
Paulina Lyskawa (UiT) presents work from the ExSynOp project. Using automatic phonological alignment of data from the Nordic Word Order Database, she and her colleagues have tested phonological hypotheses explaining object shift in Scandinavian.
Jamie Findlay talks about what idioms really are.
Masha Esipova presents new quantitative data on whether inferences about prejudice contributed by slurs persist under ellipsis in dialogue.
Timo B. Roettger will give you the answer you don't want to hear, but deserve.
Mai Ha Vu talks about her postdoctoral project of applying linguistics to solving questions in immunology.
Our new postdoc Nathan Young talks about loanwords in Swedish, and looks specifically at hip-hop lyrics.
Eline Visser (guest researcher and postdoc in Åshild Næss's project) talks about her project. The event is in English and open to everyone. Welcome!
David Felipe Guerrero-Beltran (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université de Paris/CNRS & School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne) holder foredrag. Han skal snakke om grammatiske relasjoner i et australsk språk. Arrangementet er åpent for alle. Velkommen!