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Variation and Change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase (completed)

The project focused on how linguistic categories are understood, and how they vary and change.

About the project

The Scandinavian languages have a long joint history, and they often show parallel historical developments.

However, there are cases where they show divergence, and in interesting ways. Little is known about these diverging developments.

The project "Variation and Change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase" wanted to remedy this by looking at all of the Scandinavian languages from the end of the 17th century to the present.

Considerable advances in the knowledge of the modern languages now make the historical study feasible, and important for continued progress.

Financing

Variation and Change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase (2016-2021) was funded by the Research Council of Norway and the University of Oslo as a Young research talent project under the FRIPRO scheme.

Events

Workshop: Syntactic Variation and Change in the Nordic Dialects

We hereby invite you to a workshop on syntactic variation and change in the Nordic dialects, in connection with the 11th Nordic Dialectology Conference in Reykjavík, August 20–22, 2018. The invited speaker is Erik Magnusson Petzell (Institute for Language and Folklore).

Time and place: Aug. 20, 2018 – Aug. 22, 2018, Reykjavík

We welcome abstracts that address all aspects of syntactic variation and change in the Nordic region, synchronically or diachronically, from various theoretical perspectives. Presentations can be held in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, or English.

Organizing committee: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Ida Larsson & Björn Lundquist


Workshop in Tartu: Digital Language History

In connection with the conference Swedish Language History 15 in Tartu, we invite you to an open workshop on the topic of Digital Language History on June 13, 2018.

Time and place: June 13, 2018, Tartu

The workshop is organized in collaboration with Swe-Clarin. The aim of the workshop is to present the vast historical materials available in the Language Bank and the methods developed to analyze them.

Organizing committee: Lars Borin, Anna Hannesdóttir, Ida Larsson, and Lena Rogström


Workshop: Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase

The project Variation and Change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase is pleased to announce a workshop at the University of Oslo in May 2017. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who work on verbal syntax from a historical or microcomparative perspective.

Keynote speaker: Professor Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)

Time and place: May 15, 2017 – May 16, 2017, Abels utsikt (rom 1259) i 12 etasje i Niels Henrik Abels hus

Programme

Monday, May 15
  • Björn Lundquist: Levels of (Long) Object Shift
  • Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson: Incorporating prepositions in old(er) Icelandic
  • Jim Wood & Einar Sigurdsson: On the subject of subjectless ‘let’ complements
  • Cecilia Falk: Medial s-verbs in Old Swedish. Some unsuspected patterns and cases
  • Helge Lødrup: The development of Norwegian pseudocoordinations with the verb drive 'carry on'
  • Peter Svenonius: Norwegian impersonal passive and presentational constructions analyzed in terms of forking and converging Extended Projections
Tuesday, May 16
  • Invited speaker: Paul Kiparsky
  • Oliver Schallert: Cluster creepers in German dialects
  • Theresa Biberauer: Word-order variation and change in systems that maximize minimal means
  • Ida Toivonen: Results and directed motion in Germanic

Scientific committee

  • Cecilia Falk (Stockholm University)
  • Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland)
  • Ida Larsson (University of Oslo)
  • Björn Lundquist (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway)
  • Tomas Riad (Stockholm University)
  • Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)
  • Jim Wood (Yale University)

Presentations

  • Larsson, Ida: "Nordisk dialektsplittring i nyare tid". "Måndagsseminariet". 13.03.17 University of Gothenburg.
  • Larsson, Ida: "The Scandinavian Laboratory – a view from microcomparison". 20.04.17 Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference The University of Texas.
  • Larsson, Ida: "System- och användaraspekter". "Historisk korpusworkshop". 05.05.17 University of Gothenburg.
  • Larsson, Ida: "Variation and Change in the Scandinavian Verb Phrase". Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase. 15.05.17 University of Oslo.
  • Larsson, Ida; Lundquist, Bjørn: "Argument Placement in Mainland Scandinavian - Stable Variation and Parametric Change". 19th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference. 06.09.17 Stellenbosch University and University of the Western Cape.
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