21st Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics,
NTNU, Trondheim, June 1-4, 2005

PROGRAM

The conference venue is in the Elektro building, O.S. Bragstads plass, Gløshaugen campus, NTNU. The Gløshaugen campus is within about 15 minutes walking distance from downtown Trondheim.

Most talks are linked to an abstract in PDF-format. Just click the link! Note that paper versions of the abstracts will not be distributed at the conference.

We also have a PDF-version of the program suitable for printout.

Wednesday June 1

10.00-12.00	Outside EL5 Registration
12.30-12.45	EL5 *Opening of the conference by NTNU Rektor* Eivind Hiis Hauge and address by NAL President Jussi Niemi**
12.50-16.30	Two parallel sessions:

EL5
Main session
Chair: Kristin M. Eide (12.50-15.05)
Hilde Sollid (15.25-16.30)

EL6
Workshop on Reference
(The times given for this session are approximate)
Moderator: Jeanette K. Gundel

12.50-13.20	~~A.-V. Pietarinen “Mental spaces and logical diagrams”~~ canceled
13.25-13.55	M. Riessler “On attributive adjectives in Saami”
14.00-14.30	E. Phoevos Panagiotidis “On the position(ing) of the lexical head”
14.35-15.05	J.B. Johannessen & K. Hagen “Challenges in orthographic transcription”
	Break
15.25-15.55	H. Götzsche & S.A. Kristensen “A typological study of verbal constituents in Danish, Swedish and Finnish in the framework of Formative Grammar (EFAX)”
16.00-16.30	J. White “The place of result clauses”

12.50-13.20	T. Fretheim “Definite descriptions, demonstratives and reference to type: evidence from the Oslo Multilingual Corpus (OMC)”
13.25-13.55	F. Cornish “Null complement vs. object pronouns as anaphors in English: the roles of event structure and contextual reference domain”
14.00-14.30	C. Navarretta “On the influence of the lexical semantics of words on the interpretation of intersentential pronominal anaphora”
14.35-15.05	W. De Mulder “Uniqueness and the (French) definite article”
	Break
15.25-15.55	M. Hegarty “Semantic type and other factors in reference to situations and facts”
16.00-16.30	T. Tenbrink & A. Klippel “Achieving reference via contrast in route instructions and spatial object identification”

16.35-17.35	EL5 Plenary speaker: Höskulder Thrainsson: “Learning from Faroese”
19.00	Reception at the Archbishop’s Palace hosted by the Mayor of Trondheim

Thursday June 2

09.00-11.30

Two parallel sessions:

EL3
Thematic Session on Motion Encoding
Chair: Jussi Niemi

EL6
Workshop on Reference
(The times given for this session are approximate)
Moderator: Jeanette K. Gundel

09.00-09.30	W. Geuder & M. Weisgerber “Manner and causation in movement verbs”
09.35-10.05	N. Kahusk & K. Vider “Word definitions in thesaurus and word explanation experiment”
10.10-10.40	T. Kainlauri “The illative case of Finnish: a force dynamic or a directional marker?”
	Break
11.00-11.30	C. Walker & E. van der Zee “Motion encoding in language: The use of reference frames”

09.00-09.30	Nana Aba Appiah Amfo “Reference resolution in Akan: a look at the demonstratives”
09.35-10.05	F. Maes “Referential responsibility in action oriented discourse”
10.10-	Discussion

11.35-12.35	EL5 Plenary speaker: L. Talmy: “The Fundamental System of Spatial Schemas in Language”
	LUNCH
14.00-16.30	Two parallel sessions:

EL3
Thematic Session on Motion Encoding
Chair: Mila Vulchanova

EL6
Main session
Chair: Heidi Brøseth

14.00-14.30	A. Kopecka “Diachronic aspects of lexicalization patterns in French”
14.35-15.05	G. Paulsen “Finnish deverbal causative verbs with a motion verb as the root”
15.10-15.40	E. van der Zee & U. Nikanne “The grain levels in the linguistic expressions of motion”
	Break
16.00-16.30	S. Pourcel & A. Kopecka “Typological variation in the expression of motion events in French”

14.00-14.30	M. Dyakonova “Predicate fronting in Russian”
14.35-15.05	K. Borthen “A curious case of gender disagreement in Scandinavian”
15.10-15.40	R. Therkelsen “Coding of questioning confirmation request in Danish”
	Break
16.00-16.30	K. Wojciechowicz “The generic structure of movie review in Poland and Finland”

16.35-17.35	EL5 Plenary speaker: B. Tversky: “Thinking and talking about events”
17.45	EL5 NAL Business meeting

Friday June 3

09.00-11.30

Two parallel sessions:

EL3
Thematic Session on Motion Encoding
Chair: Urpo Nikanne

EL6
Main session
Chair: Torbjørn Nordgård

09.00-09.30	E. Romanova “Incorporated vs. free particles in Norwegian”
09.35-10.05	E. van der Zee & C. Walker “An empirical testing of Levelt's Principle of Canonical Orientation: Emerging Theories”
10.10-10.40	Y. Lander, T. Maisak, E. Rakhilina “Motion in a liquid medium (AQUA-motion): towards lexical typology”
	Break

09.00-09.30	B.H. Græsli “Corpora and the semantics of borrowing: Some methodological challenges”
09.35-10.05	M. Halmøy “Bare nouns, number and (in)definiteness”
10.10-10.40	A.M. Lindstad “Negation and feature interpretability”
	Break
11.00-11.30	K.M. Johannsdottir “Temporal adverbials and the progressive in Icelandic”

11.35-12.35	EL5 Plenary speaker: Lydia White: “Three Perspectives on Morphological Variabilty in L2”
	LUNCH
14.00-16.30	Three parallel sessions:

EL3
Thematic Session on Motion Encoding
Chair: Emile van der Zee

EL6
Main session I
Chair: Lars G. Johnsen

EL2
Main session II
Chair: Wim van Dommelen

14.00-14.30	M. Pörn “Finnish emotive causative verbs expressing psychophysical and physical emotions”
14.35-15.05	S. Kittilä “Causatives that are not n+1”
15.10-15.40	T. Tenbrink & A. Winterboer “Spatial directionals for robot navigation”
	Break
16.00-16.30	M. Vulchanova & L. Martinez “Verbs of Motion in three satellite-framed languages: A pilot experimental study”

14.00-14.30	K. Melum Eide “Norwegian modals and their complements”
14.35-15.05	K. Boye “Modality, evidentiality and epistemicity”
15.10-15.40	B. Rothstein “On the Swedish present perfect”
	Break
16.00-16.30	Y. Rodina “The interdependency of gender and declension in the acquisition of Russian as a first language”

14.00-14.30	I.L. Falkum “Cleft sentences in a cross-linguistic perspective: A contrastive study of French and Norwegian original texts and translations”
14.35-15.05	J. Niemi “Subsyllabic Onset plus Rhyme: Not A Universal Configuration (Even) in Right-branching Languages”
15.10-15.40	O. Petrova “Idioms in internet discourse”
	Break
16.00-16.30	I. Vasko & T. Fretheim “A contrastive analysis of the correspondents ‘always’, ‘constantly’ and similar temporal quantifiers in Norwegian and Hungarian”

16.35-17.35	EL5 Plenary speaker: V. Cook: “Some repercussions of multi-competence for linguistics”
19.00	Conference dinner

Saturday June 4

Two parallel sessions:

EL3
Workshop on Grammar Engineering

09.00	Ann Copestake, Cambridge University: “Lexical and semantic selection: Options for grammar engineers and what they might mean linguistically”
09.45	Dan Flickinger, Stanford University/ Saarland University/ Univ. of Oslo: “The HPSG Grammar Matrix 1.0”
10.30-11.00	Break
11.00	Lars Hellan, NTNU: “The Norwegian HPSG grammar NorSource - status after 3 years of development”
11.30	Dorothee Beermann, NTNU: “A semantics of motion and location implemented in an HPSG grammar”
12.00	Sara Stymne & Lars Ahrenberg, Univ. of Linköping: “Some English-Swedish verb frame divergencies in LKB”
12.30-14.00	LUNCH
14.00	Ben Waldron, Cambridge University: “A lexicon module for DELPH-IN”
14.35	Hannes Hirzel, Univ. of Zürich, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, Univ. of Ghana, Dorothee Beermann, Jonathan Brindle and Lars Hellan, NTNU: “Porting lexicon files from Toolbox into LKB-grammars: A case study for a grammar of Ga”
15.05-15.20	Break
15.20	Petter Haugereid, NTNU: “Underspecification of category and argument structure in open class lexical items”
15.45	Jesse Tseng, Nancy: “Grammar development efforts for French”
16.10	Paula Newman, Los Altos: “Text trees in Grammar Development”
16.35	Lars G. Johnsen, Univ. of Bergen: “The sister relation as a basis for syntactic representation”

EL6
Workshop on Language Structures in Contact

09.00-09.30	Lydia White “V2 in L2 and L3”
09.35-10.05	Michał B. Paradowski “Déjà vu - utilizing the L1 anew in tutored FLL”
10.10-10.40	Jin Fufen “L3 acquisition of the Norwegian subjects and objects: interlanguage transfer or L1 influence”
	Break
11.00-11.30	T. & T. Heikkilä “The significance of the inclusion of sociopragmatic and collocational competence in immersion education programmes”
11.35-12.05	M. Bakro-Nagy “Grammatical borrowing and grammaticalization: The Komi conditional marker ‘ke’ in Mansi”
12.10-12.40	Hilde Sollid: “Double negation in Northern Norwegian”
	LUNCH

EL6
Discussion Panel on the linguistic encoding of space and motion

Moderator: Barabara Tversky
Discussants: Len Talmy, Emile van der Zee, Mila Vulchanova, Urpo Nikanne, Jussi Niemi

14.00-14.30	Barbara Tversky, Stanford University: Introduction
14.30-15.00	Sotaro Kita, University of Bristol: “Gestures reveal the speaker's on-line conceptualization of Manner and Path in motion event”
15.00-15.30	Kenny Coventry, University of Plymouth: “Spatial Language and Dynamic-kinematic Routines: A Cross-linguistic Perspective”
	Break
15.45-16.30	Closing remarks and discussion