Friday Seminars

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