Spring term 2012Time and Place: HF:217, 14.15-16.00 (unless otherwise indicated)
| January 27 | Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies: Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic |
| February 17 | Ritsuko Kikusawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan) The Development of “Applicative” Constructions in Western Austronesian Languages: Toward a Comparison and Reconstruction |
| March 2 | Ilja A. Seržants (University of Bergen) Independent partitive genitive in Russian, North Russian and Lithuanian |
| March 9 | Laurie Reid (University of Hawaii at Manoa) “Say What?”: Grammaticalization Paths of Say in some Formosan and Philippines Languages |
| March 16 (NB: Rom SH:AM) | Koenraad De Smedt (UiB) CLARINO: forskningsinfrastruktur for språkressurser CLARINO er et NFR-støttet prosjekt rettet mot en infrastruktur for språkrelaterte forskingsressurser som f.eks. tekst- og talekorpus, digitalisert litteratur, historiske databaser, osv. CLARINO utgjør den norske delen av CLARIN-prosjektet på ESFRI-veikartet. I seminaret blir prosjektplanen drøftet samt perspektiver for samarbeid innenfor HF. |
| March 23 | Boyan Alexiev (University of Sofia) The Structure of a Learner’s Glossary Entry |
| March 30 | Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Language Resources and Technology for Bulgarian |
| April 13 | Gunn Inger Lyse (Universitetet i Bergen) og Gisle Andersen (Norges Handelshøyskole) Flerordsuttrykk i Norsk aviskorpus – kollokasjoner og n-gram |
| April 20 | Miguel Pacheco (University of Bergen) Ergativitets- eller transitivitetsmarkering i muysca-språket? |
| April 27 | Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen) Prosody and syntactic linearization in Early Germanic The talk will first examine how we can reconstruct the prosodic structure of a language based on written records. I will then discuss how metrical/prosodic factors interact with the syntax, specifically in the placement of finite verbs, adpositions, and pronominals. |
| May 25 | Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (University of Bergen) Experimental modelling of the cultural evolution of language |