Members of the research group GAME are invited to a one day workshop with keynote presentations by Professor Sam Wolfe from the University of Oxford and Senior lecturer Nick Allott from the University of Oslo. The research fellows of the GAME group have all been invited to present their work.
Other interested are welcome to listen to the talks. Please contact Professor Christine M. Nilsen or Professor Kjell Johan Sæbø.
Programme
| 09.30–09.45 | Coffee |
| 09.45–10.15 | Welcome and presentation of the participants. |
| 10.15–11.15 | Professor Sam Wolfe, University of Oxford: “The history of French: Insights for Diachronic Syntax and Parametric Theory” |
| 11.15–11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30–12.15 | Tina Malen B. Lybekk: “Cliticisation of the French subject pronouns” |
| 12.15–13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30–14.30 | Senior lecturer Nick Allott: The inevitability of abstraction and the role of data: why Chomsky was right about the philosophy of science |
| 14.30–15.15 | Maria Buyko: “All you can—and fail to—infer: informational oddness in disjunctions" |
| 15.15–15.30 | Coffee |
| 15.30–16.15 | Lisa Kibisova: “Grammar and Style of Russian Fake News” |
| 16.15–17.00 | Solomeia Bagautdinova: “Pseudo-imperatives in Russian” |
| 17.00–17.30 | Closing remarks |
| 18.30 | Dinner downtown Oslo |