25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics

(25-scl)

Reykjavík, May 13–15, 2013

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Contents  

Program  overview ...................................................................................................................................2  

Plenary  Speakers .....................................................................................................................................5  

Workshop  1:  Language  Change  in  Real  Time ..........................................................................................6  

Workshop  2:  Foundations  of  Language  Standardization ........................................................................8  

Workshop  3:  Abstractness  in  Phonology...............................................................................................10  

Workshop  4:  Formal  Ways  of  Analyzing  Variation ................................................................................11  

Workshop  5:  Information  structure  in  Scandinavian  languages ...........................................................13  

Workshop  6:  Language  Change  and  Linguistic  Variation  in  the  Medieval  North ..................................14  

Workshop  7:  Syntax  and  Semantics  of  Adjectives.................................................................................15  

Workshop  8:  Morphosyntactic  Variation  and  Change  in  Germanic......................................................17  

Workshop  9:  Sign  Linguistics .................................................................................................................19  

Workshop  10:  Syntactic  Variation  in  Scandinavia .................................................................................20  

Workshop  11:  Syntactic  Issues  in  Language  Acquisition .......................................................................22  

Workshop  12:  Argument  Realisation  of  GET,  GIVE,  PUT  and  TAKE  Verbs  in  Functionally  Motivated  Approaches ...........................................................................................................................................24  

General  Session  -­‐  Syntax .......................................................................................................................26  

General  Session  -­‐  Phonology.................................................................................................................28  

General  Session  –  Morphology/Syntax .................................................................................................29  

General  Session  -­‐  Historical...................................................................................................................30  

General  Session  –  Syntax/Semantics.....................................................................................................31  

Acknowledgements...............................................................................................................................32  

 

 

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Program overview

Monday, 13 May

9:00 REGISTRATION: University Main Building 9:45 OPENING 10:00 PLENARY: Alec Marantz 11:00 COFFEE WS1

Room 207 WS6 Room 50

WS8 Room 229

WS10 Room 220

WS7 Room 225

GS (hist) Room 231

GS (mor/syn) Room 218

WS12 Room 52

11:30 Kristiansen Berg Primus Franco, Boef

Sleeman Fløgstad Rawoens, Nolan, Diedrichsen Tragel

12:00 Árnason Arista Arnett, Dewey

Jonas Marusic, Zaucer

Harðarson v.Waldenfels

12:30 LUNCH 14:00 Møller,

Hyttel-Sørensen

Stroh- Wollin

Siemund Julien Rutkow-ski

Lander, Haegeman

Svenonius, Larsson

Collins

14:30 Bugge Dehé, Kotcheva

Cloutier H.Á. Sigurðs-son

Masià Håkansson, Brandtler

Götzsche Yap, Chen, Wong

15:00 Gregersen Freeman Whelpton Parrott Alexiadou Josefsson Jóhannsson Levshina, Mayer, Cysouw

15:30 Guðmunds-dóttir

Verri Christie, Toivonen

Wood

Perridon Danesi Matyiku Li

16:00 COFFEE 16:30 Maegaard,

Jensen Vea Escarza

Viðarsson F. Schäfer Bacskai- Atkari

Sigurðar-dóttir

Finn

17:00 Whelpton, Sigurjóns-dóttir, Eyþórsson

Bern-harðsson

Colleman, Geleyn

Lødrup Eckhoff

17:30 Christensen Ingason 18:00 WELCOME RECEPTION: University Main Building

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Tuesday, 14 May

WS1

Room 207 GS (syn) Room 229

WS8 Room 231

WS10 Room 220

WS7 Room 225

WS9 Main Room

WS12 Room 52

9:00 Eide, Busterud

Hollmann Nygård, Åfarli

Fábregas Turner Zakrzewska

9:30 Þráinsson Wolleb Lander Kucerova Ihsane, Sleeman

Rutkowski, Łacheta, Mostowski, Łozińska, Filipczak

Ngai

10:00 Anderson Mitrofan-ova

Pierce, Boas Holmberg Giusti Þorvaldsdóttir, Sverrisdóttir

Dattner

10:30 COFFEE 11:00 Neteland Kremers Salmons,

Sewell, Bousquette, Frey, Nützel, Putnam

Wood, E.F. Sigurðsson

Brynjólfsdóttir, Jónsson

Newman

11:30 Sandøy Bjerre Dewey, Carey, Oberlin

Pfaff Rutkowski, Łozińska, Łacheta, Czajkowska-Kisil

Jone

12:00 Vangsnes Barðdal, Arnett, Carey, Dewey, Eyþórsson, Jenset

Hosemann, Herrmann

Habicht, Tragel

12:30 LUNCH 14:00 PLENARY: Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen WS2

Room 207 GS (syn) Room 229

GS (syn/sem) Room 218

WS4 Room 220

WS5 Room 225

WS9 Main Room

GS (phon) Room 231

15:00 Birkenes, Fleischer

Reeve Cooper Zanuttini, Bernstein

Steinbach, Pfau Eddington

15:30 Kristinsson Minor Fretheim Stefánsdóttir Erteschik-Shir Bø Geyer 16:00 COFFEE 16:30 Isenmann Svenonius Tamminga Molnár Schüppert,

Haug Hilton, Gooskens, Van Heuven

17:00 Bjarnadóttir, Daðason

Castro Coetzee Schardl Basbøll

17:30 Odria, Fernández, Rezac

Nowenstein Egebakken Vázquez-Larruscain

18:00

20:00 Conference Dinner in Kolabrautin, Harpa Concert House, Austurbakki 2, Reykjavík

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Wednesday, 15 May

WS2

Room 207 WS3 Room 50

WS5 Room 225

WS4 Room 220

GS (syn) Room 229

WS11 Room 231

9:00 Wallenberg, Fruehwald

Julien Hyams, Rett

9:30 Krämer Angantýsson

Westergaard Johannessen Eisenbeiss

10:00 Árnason Lindahl, Engdahl

Tortora Eide, Hjelde Van Koert, Koeneman, Weerman, Hulk

10:30 COFFEE 11:00 Sigtryggs-

son Pöchtrager Bentzen,

Anderssen, Waldmann

Sheehan Servidio Hacohen, Schaeffer

11:30 Elspaß, Niehaus

Þorgeirsson Ørsnes Biberauer, Roberts, Sheehan,

Salvesen Sigurjónsdóttir

12:00 Viðarsson Hansson Andréasson Lundquist Minor, Mitrofanova

Mckee, McDaniel, Garrett

12:30 LUNCH 14:00 PLENARY: Hans-Martin Gärtner 15:00 Hedlund Markússon Light Erteschik-

Shir, Josefsson

Escobar Álvarez, Teomiro

15:30 Vosters, Rutten

Gabbard Heycock, Wallenberg

Teomiro Rodina, Westergaard

16:00 COFFEE 16:30 Stolberg Piperski Vangsnes Bentzen 17:00 Óskarsson Heimisdóttir Postma Björnsdóttir 17:30 CLOSING CEREMONY: University Main Building

20:00 Post-Conference Dinner at Hotel Borg, Pósthússtræti 9-11, Reykjavík

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Plenary Speakers

Monday 13th May, 10-11 am. Main Room/Hátíðasalur

Alec Marantz (New York University) Locating the Verbal Root

Tuesday 14th May, 14-15 am. Main Room/Hátíðasalur

Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (University of Copenhagen) Effects of modality on language structure: clause structure in sign languages

Wednesday 15th May, 14-15 am. Main Room/Hátíðasalur

Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Organizing the Hunt for Special and Minor Sentence Types

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Workshop 1: Language Change in Real Time Frans Gregersen (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen)

Helge Sandøy (University of Bergen) Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland)

Monday 13th May Room 207 11:30-12:00 Tore Kristiansen (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen) Language Attitudes in Real Time 12:00-12:30 Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland) The Folk Linguistics of Phonological Variation in Icelandic and Faroese LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Janus Spindler Møller (University of Copenhagen) & Liva Hyttel-Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) Metalinguistic Attitudes in Studies of Language Use and Language Development 14:30-15:00 Edit Bugge (University of Bergen) Language Change in Real Time or Failed Intergenerational Language Transmission? 60 years of recordings from one Romsdal family 15:00-15:30 Frans Gregersen (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen) Apparently a Good Idea? Age grading, apparent time and real time in the case of the raising of [ε] in Copenhagen from 1986-87 to 2006-07 15:30-16:00 Margrét Guðmundsdóttir (University of Iceland) Linguistic Temptations - How tempting are different phonological changes in Icelandic? COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Marie Maegaard (University of Copenhagen) & Torben Juel Jensen (University of Copenhagen) Participles in Jutland - A real time study of regionalization and standardization 17:00-17:30 Matthew Whelpton (University of Iceland), Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland) & Þórhallur Eyþórsson (University of Iceland) Grammatical Change in Real Time? The New Impersonal/Passive in Icelandic

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17:30-18:00 Tanya Karoli Christensen (University of Copenhagen) Socially Significant Semantic Variation - On a shift in young people’s use of epistemic adverbs in modern spoken Danish Tuesday 14th May Room 207 9:30-10:00 Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland) Testing an “Apparent Time Prediction” in Real Time 10:00-10:30 Ragnhild Anderson (University of Bergen) From Teens to Grownups - A real time study in a suburb of Bergen COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Randi Neteland (University of Bergen) Longitudinal Studies of New Dialect Formation - A study of industrial towns in Western Norway 11:30-12:00 Helge Sandøy (University of Bergen) Sources of Dialect Change

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Workshop 2: Foundations of Language Standardization

Ásta Svavarsdóttir (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Tuesday 14th May Room 207 15:00-15:30 Magnus Breder Birkenes (Philipp University of Marburg) & Jürg Fleischer (Philipp University of Marburg) The neuter singular as a gender resolution form: the differing cases of Norwegian (Nynorsk) and German standardization 15:30-16:00 Ari Páll Kristinsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) Shaky foundations of standardization or tempest in the Icelandic teapot? COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Vanessa Isenmann (University of Iceland) The impact of CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) on Icelandic written language 17:00-17:30 Kristín Bjarnadóttir (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) & Jón Friðrik Daðason (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) Standardization, prescription, description and theory: Icelandic inflection Wednesday 15th May Room 207 11:00-11:30 Jóhannes Bjarni Sigtryggsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) Phonological and morphological variants in 19th century Icelandic 11:30-12:00 Stephan Elspaß (University of Salzburg) & Konstantin Niehaus (University of Salzburg) Exploring the standardisation of a modern pluriareal language. Proposals for the use of newspaper texts in historical linguistics

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12:00-12:30 Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland) Variation in embedded verb-adverb placement as a mirror to 19th century standardisation LUNCH 15:00-15:30 Cecilia Hedlund (SOFI, Uppsala) The South Lappish Book Language – an attempt to create a standard Sámi language in the 18th century 15:30-16:00 Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmus University College Brussels) & Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University) Death and afterlife of bipartite negation in Dutch. Language change and the effectiveness of norms COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Doris Stolberg (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim) When a standard language goes colonial: Language attitudes, language planning, and destandardization during German colonialism 17:00-17:30 Veturliði Óskarsson (Uppsala University) Loanwords in Icelandic 19th century private letters

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Workshop 3: Abstractness in Phonology Haukur Þorgeirsson (University of Iceland)

Wednesday 15th May Room 50 9:30-10:00 Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø) English nasalized vowels, and abstract underlying representations in Optimality Theory 10:00-10:30 Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland) Structure preservation and morphophonemics COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Markus Pöchtrager (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul) Beyond the Segment 11:30-12:00 Haukur Þorgeirsson (University of Iceland) The case against poetic evidence for abstract phonology 12:00-12:30 Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (University of British Columbia) Alternations, allomorphy and abstractness: Icelandic U-Umlaut revisited LUNCH 15:00-15:30 Jón Símon Markússon (University of Iceland) Does u-umlaut have anything to do with u? The case against phonological interpretation of a/ö alternations in Icelandic 15:30-16:00 Kevin Gabbard (University of Tromsø) Evidence for Radical Abstractness in Somali COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Alexander Piperski (Moscow State University) The Study of Linguistic Complexity as a Challenge for Phonology 17:00-17:30 Linda Heimisdóttir (Cornell University) The Role of Syllable Structure in the Distribution of Icelandic Aspiration

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Workshop 4: Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation Anton Karl Ingason (University of Pennsylvania)

Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Pennsylvania) Tuesday 14th May Room 220 15:00-15:30 Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University) & Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University) Indefinite subjects and negation in Appalachian English 15:30-16:00 Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir (University of Iceland) By-phrases in the new passive COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) Corpus evidence for diachronic shifts in persistence asymmetries 17:00-17:30 Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) Bridging the Gap: Grammatical and Non-Grammatical Factors in Phonological Variation 17:30-18:00 Iris Edda Nowenstein (University of Iceland) Intraspeaker variation in subject case: Icelandic Wednesday 15th May 9:00-9:30 Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle University) & Josef Fruehwald (University of Pennsylvania): Optionality is Stable Variation is Competing Grammars 9:30-10:00 Marit Westergaard (CASTL, University of Tromsø) The acquisition of Linguistics Variation: What is and isn’t innate? 10:00-10:30 Christina Tortora (City University of New York) A multiple grammars approach to intraspeaker variation in verb movement in English questions COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge) Towards a parameter hierarchy for alignment

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11:30-12:00 Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & Stellenbosch University), Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) & Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge) Mafioso Parameters and the Limits of Syntactic Variation 12:00-12:30 Björn Lundquist (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Covariation without parameters: on the loss of argumental simplex reflexives LUNCH 15:00-15:30 Caitlin Light (The University of York) On the “variable” behaviour of object topicalization in Germanic. 15:30-16:00 Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) & Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle University) Variation in the structure of subordinate clauses and the instability of VtoT in Scandinavian COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Øystein Vangsnes (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Variation and change in indexicals by Nanosyntax 17:00-17:30 Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam) Differentiating core and peripheral syntactic data using algebraic methods

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Workshop 5: Information structure in Scandinavian languages

Elisabet Engdahl (University of Gothenburg) Maia Andréasson (University of Gothenburg)

Tuesday 14th May Room 225 15:30-16:00 Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben-Gurion University) The information structure of superiority COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Valéria Molnár (Lund University) Stylistic Fronting and Discourse 17:00-17:30 Anisa Schardl (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Structured QUD: evidence from a discourse particle in Finnish 17:30-18:00 Trine Egebakken (University of Oslo) Topicalization of the VP-anaphor det in spoken Norwegian Wednesday 15th May Room 225 9:30-10:00 Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Akureyri) Embedded topicalization and verb/adverb fronting in the Scandinavian languages 10:00-10:30 Filippa Lindahl (University of Gothenburg) & Elisabet Engdahl (University of Gothenburg) Continuing and expanding topics COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Kristine Bentzen (University of Tromsø), Merete Anderssen (University of Tromsø) & Christian Waldmann (Umeå University) Object Shift in spoken Mainland Scandinavian 11:30-12:00 Bjarne Ørsnes (Copenhagen Business School) Information structure and non-canonical complements 12:00-12:30 Maia Andréasson (University of Gothenburg) Accessibility and contrast in North Germanic object shift

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Workshop 6: Language Change and Linguistic Variation in the

Medieval North Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland)

Monday 13th May Room 50 11:30-12:00 Ivar Berg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) The marked case: A case study in morphological change 12:00-12:30 Javier Martin Arista (University of La Rioja) Semantic compatibiltiy in Old English suffixation LUNCH  14:00-14:30 Ulla Stroh-Wollin (Uppsala University) The definite suffix: different origins - uniform outcome 14:30-15:00 Kristina Kotcheva (University of Konstanz) & Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz) Prosody in historical corpora: Evidence from North Germanic 15:00-15:30 Aaron Freeman (University of Pennsylvania) On the Loss of the Instrumental Case in Old English 15:30-16:00 Giovanni Verri (University of Iceland) Transcribing a 14th Century text in the late 1680es COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Raquel Vea Escarza (University of La Rioja) Meaning construction and secondary lexical functions. The formation of Old English nouns and adjectives 17:00-17:30 Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland) Medieval Orthography and Language Change in Real Time

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Workshop 7: Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives

Alexander Pfaff (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Monday 13th May Room 225 11:30-12:00 Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) Adjectival positions in Germanic and Romance 12:00-12:30 Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica) & Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica) Some adjectives that appear even higher than numerals LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Paweł Rutkowski (University of Warsaw) Postnominal adjectives in Polish 14:30-15:00 Melania S. Masià (ILLA-CSIC) What’s in prenominal Position? Non-intersective adjectives in Spanish 15:00-15:30 Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart) Restrictive adjectival modification and nominal ellipsis 15:30-16:00 Harry Perridon (University of Amsterdam) Superlatives and definiteness COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Julia Bacskai-Atkari (University of Potsdam) Extended projections of adjectives and comparative deletion

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Tuesday 14th May Room 225 9:00-9:30 Antonio Fábregas (University of Tromsø) Towards a syntactic account of affix combinations- deadjectival nouns and denominal adjectives 9:30-10:00 Tabea Ihsane (University of Geneva) & Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) Gender agreement in French and phase theory 10:00-10:30 Giuliana Giusti (University Ca' Foscari Venice) Is AP a phase? COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Jim Wood (Yale University) & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Pennsylvania) Icelandic deverbal adjectives and case-alternations 11:30-12:00 Alexander Pfaff (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Strong inflection in Icelandic  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Workshop 8: Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Germanic Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen) Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen)

Carlee Arnett (University of California UC Davis) Monday 13th May Room 229 11:30-12:00 Beatrice Primus (University of Cologne) Agentivity and Telicity: Variation with Intransitive Verbs 12:00-12:30 Carlee Arnett (University of California) & Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen) Motion Verbs in Old Saxon with the Oblique Subject Construction: A Semantic Analysis LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg) The emergence of English reflexive verbs: An analysis based on the Oxford English Dictionary

14:30-15:00 Robert Cloutier (University of Amsterdam) Old English hātte/hātton: Anomalous relic or integrated verbal forms? 15:00-15:30 Matthew Whelpton (University of Iceland) Icelandic and the Typology of Resultatives

15:30-16:00 Liz Christie (Carleton University) & Ida Toivonen (Carleton University) The argument status of result phrases COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland) New perspectives on word order variation in Icelandic ditransitives: a diachronic corpus study

17:00-17:30 Timothy Colleman (Ghent University) & Tim Geleyn (Ghent University) The emergence of the Dutch prepositional dative construction

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Tuesday 14th May Room 231 9:00-9:30 Willem Hollmann (Lancaster University) Word classes in English and Dutch: Listening to phonological evidence

9:30-10:00 Eric Lander (Ghent University) What Gothic can tell us about the origins of the NWGmc reinforced demonstrative 10:00-10:30 Marc Pierce (University of Texas at Austin) & Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin) Gender assignment in Texas German COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin), Alyson Sewell (University of Wisconsin), Joshua Bosquette (University of Wisconsin), Benjamin Frey (University of Wisconsin), Daniel Nützel (Indiana University-Purdue University) & Michael Putnam (Penn State University) Cousins growing closer? Variation and change in American German and American English gapping 11:30-12:00 Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen), Stephen Mark Carey (University of Minnesota, Morris) & Adam Oberlin (University of Bergen) Explaining Variation between the Accusative and Dative Subject Constructions in Early Germanic 12:00-12:30 Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen), Carlee Arnett (University of California), Stephen Mark Carey (University of Minnesota, Morris), Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen), Þórhallur Eyþórsson (University of Iceland) & Gard B. Jenset (Bergen University College, Oxford University) The Evolution of Dative Subjects from Proto-Germanic to the Earliest Germanic Daughters

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Workshop 9: Sign Linguistics Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland)

Tuesday 14th May Main Room/Hátíðasalur 9:00-9:30 Graham H. Turner (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Sign Linguistics and Deaf Capital 9:30-10:00 Paweł Rutkowski (University of Warsaw), Joanna Łacheta (University of Warsaw), Piotr Mostowski (University of Warsaw), Sylwia Łozińska (University of Warsaw) & Joanna Filipczak (University of Warsaw). What Corpus Data Can and Cannot Tell Us about Sign Language. 10:00-10:30 Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir (Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Iceland) & Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland) Why is the SKY BLUE? On color signs in Icelandic sign Language COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir (University of Iceland) & Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland) Wh-questions and V2 in ÍTM 11:30-12:00 Pawel Rutkowski (University of Warsaw), Sylwia Łozińska (University of Warsaw), Joanna Łacheta (University of Warsaw) & Małgorzata Czajkowska-Kisil (University of Warsaw). Is PJM SVO or SOV? 12:00-12:30 Jana Hosemann (University of Göttingen) & Annika Herrmann (University of Göttingen) Do signers activate „Maus“ while seeing ? Second language activation during first language processing LUNCH 15:00-15:30 Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen) & Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam) A Natural History of Sign Language Negation 15:30-16:00 Vibeke Bø (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences) Verb Sandwich Constructions in Norwegian Sign Language

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Workshop 10: Syntactic Variation in Scandinavia Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (Lund University)

Jim Wood (Yale University)

Monday 13th May Room 220 11:30-12:00 Irene Franco (Leiden University) & Eefje Boef (Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin) On the morphosyntax of complementizertrace effects 12:00-12:30 Dianne Jonas (University of Frankfurt) Embedded Verb Second in Faroese LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Marit Julien (Lund University) The Force of V2 revisited 14:30-15:00 Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (Lund University) Swedish Case Marking 15:00-15:30 Jeffrey Parrott (Visiting Researcher, LANCHART Centre (DGCSS), University of Copenhagen) Fieldwork report on case variation in northern Sweden and Bornholm 15:30-16:00 Jim Wood (Yale University) Moving dependent accusatives into the subject position COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Florian Schäfer (University of Stuttgart) The status of Burzio's Generalization in the New Passive and in Fate Accusatives 17:00-17:30 Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo) Long passives in Norwegian 17:30-18:00 Anton Karl Ingason (University of Pennsylvania) The Icelandic Causation of Experience Construction

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Tuesday 14th May Room 220 9:00-9:30 Mari Nygård (University College in Trondheim) & Tor A. Åfarli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) An Analysis of Variation and Stability in Gender Assignment to Nouns 9:30-10:00 Ivona Kučerova (McMaster University) On the role of local movement in LongDistance Agreement in Icelandic 10:00-10:30 Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) Adverbs and the scope of negation in questions and answers

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Workshop 11: Syntactic Issues in Language Acquisition Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Wednesday 15th May Room 231 9:00-9:30 Nina Hyams (UCLA) & Jessica Rett (UCLA) Copy raising and evidentiality: A view from child language. 9:30-10:00 Sonja Eisenbeiss (University of Essex) On the acquisition of possessives in English and other languages. 10:00-10:30 Margreet Van Koert (University of Amsterdam), Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University of Nijmegen), Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam) & Aafke Hulk (University of Amsterdam). A reinterpretation of the Quantificational Asymmetry. COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Aviya Hacohen (University of Cyprus) & Jeannette Schaeffer (University of Amsterdam). On the grammatical mass/count distinction in Hebrew child language – Language Change? 11:30-12:00 Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland) Acquisition of the New Impersonal Construction in Icelandic. 12:00-12:30 Cecile Mckee (University of Arizona), Dana McDaniel (University of Southern Maine) & Merrill Garrett (University of Arizona). Children´s sentence-planning seen through dysfluency and rate data. LUNCH 15:00-15:30 María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez (The National Distance Education University (UNED)) & Ismael Iván Teomiro García (The National Distance Education University (UNED)). The acquisition of low applicatives and dative “se” in L1 Spanish. 15:30-16:00 Yulia Rodina (CASTL, University of Tromsø) & Marit Westergaard (CASTL, University of Tromsø). On the role of input in bilingual Norwegian/Russian acquisition of grammatical gender. COFFEE

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16:30-17:00 Kristine Bentzen (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual acquisition: How English can become a V2 language. 17:00-17:30 Sigríður Björnsdóttir (University of Iceland) The acquisition of verb second in Icelandic as a Second Language.

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Workshop 12: Argument Realisation of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE Verbs in Functionally Motivated Approaches

Gudrun Rawoens (University of Gent) Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, Dublin)

Elke Diedrichsen (Google Labs, European Headquarters, Dublin) Ilona Tragel (University of Tartu)

Monday 13th May Room 52 11:30-12:00 Gudrun Rawoens (University of Gent), Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin), Elke Diedrichsen (Google Labs, European Headquarters, Dublin) & Ilona Tragel (University of Tartu) Issues with argument realisation and syntactic variation of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs in functionally motivated approaches 12:00-12:30 Ruprecht von Waldenfels (University of Bern) Grammaticalized GIVE in Slavic between drift and contact: causative, modal, imperative and mood LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Jeremy Collins (Radboud University) ‘Give’ and semantic Maps 14:30-15:00 Foong Ha Yap (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Weirong Chen (University of Hong Kong) & Tak-Sum Wong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Valence-reducing phenomena concerning GIVE and TAKE in Chinese 15:00-15:30 Natalia Levshina (Phillips University of Marburg), Thomas Mayer (Phillips University of Marburg) & Michael Cysouw (Phillips University of Marburg) GIVE it a go: TAKE parallel corpora, PUT some statistics, and GET cross-­‐linguistic comparisons! 15:30-16:00 XuPing Li (CRLAO, EHESS, Paris) HOLD-OBTAIN-TAKE as GIVE in Gan Chinese COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Aoife Finn (Trinity College Dublin) Complex issues in the realisation of GIVE and TAKE verbs in Māori

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Tuesday 14th May Room 52 9:00-9:30 Ewa D. Zakrzewska (University of Amsterdam) GIVE in Bohairic Coptic 9:30-10:00 Sing Sing Ngai (EHESS, Paris) The argument structure, multi-functionality and grammaticalisation pathways of the GET verb in the Shaowu dialect 10:00-10:30 Elitzur Dattner (Tel Aviv University) Two Ways of Giving in Hebrew: A Construction Grammar Account of Hebrew Dative Constructions COFFEE 11:00-11:30 John Newman (University of Alberta) Holistic giving: Towards a unified account of the behavior of GIVE predicates 11:30-12:00 Bruno Jone (Trinity College Dublin) Morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of verb GIVE in Lithuanian 12:00-12:30 Külli Habicht (University of Tartu) & Ilona Tragel (University of Tartu) Estonian võtma ’take’ in two infinitive construtions

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General Session - Syntax

Tuesday 14th May Room 229 9:00-9:30 Kristin Melum Eide (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) & Guro Busterud (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) Binding of reflexives in second language acquisition: The relevance of finiteness morphology 9:30-10:00 Anna Wolleb (University of Tromsø) Crosslinguistic priming in Norwegian-English bilingual children 10:00-10:30 Natalia Mitrofanova (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Learning to talk about motion and space: a pilot study of early locative utterances in Russian COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Joost Kremers (University of Göttingen) Clitics in a parallel architecture 11:30-12:00 Anne Bjerre (University of Southern Denmark) Danish Non-specific Free Relatives 12:00-12:30 Øystein Vangsnes (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Measureless quantificational exclamatives in North Germanic LUNCH 15:00-15:30 Matthew Reeve (UCL) Ellipsis without movement in premodified reduced it-clefts 15:30-16:00 Serge Minor (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Phi-features and Indices on Pronouns COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Peter Svenonius (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Dative Case Licensers in Four Nordic Languages

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17:00-17:30 Tammer Castro (University of Tromsø) An alternative perspective on the Interface Hypothesis: the case of attrition in Brazilian Portuguese 17:30-18:00 Ane Odria (University of the Basque Country), Beatriz Fernández (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)) & Milan Rezac (CNRS-IKER UMR 5478) When Basque and Spanish met: a micro- and macrocomparative approach to DOM Wednesday 15th May Room 229 9:00-9:30 Marit Julien (Lund University) High and low inceptives in North Sámi 9:30-10:00 Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo) Two imperative types in all the Scandinavian languages 10:00-10:30 Kristin Melum Eide (Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU)) & Arnstein Hjelde (Østfold University College) V2 and non-V2 in Norwegian varieties spoken in the American Midwest COFFEE 11:00-11:30 Emilio Servidio (University of Siena) Italian polarity fragments and the nature of nonsententials 11:30-12:00 Christine Meklenborg Salvesen (University of Oslo) Topics and verb movement in Norwegian 12:00-12:30 Serge Minor (CASTL, University of Tromsø) & Natalia Mitrofanova (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Locative Modifiers and the Event Structure of Prefixed Verbs in Russian LUNCH 15:00-15:30 Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben Gurion University) & Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University) Prosody – a source of word-order microparameters 15:30-16:00 Ismael Teomiro (The National Distance Education University (UNED)) Low applicatives that take scope over denominal verbs

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General Session - Phonology

Tuesday 14th May Room 231 15:00-15:30 David Eddington (Brigham Young University) An Experimental Approach to Ambisyllabicity in English 15:30-16:00 Klaus Geyer (University of Southern Denmark) Systematising the diphthongs of Finnish by using their static and dynamic characteristics

COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Anja Schüppert (University of Groningen), Nanna Haug Hilton (University of Groningen), Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen) & Vincent Van Heuven (Leiden University) Making sense of sloppy speech: Do Danish-speaking listeners behave differently than Dutch-speaking? 17:00-17:30 Hans Basbøll (University of Southern Denmark) Lexical Specification of Stød and Non-Stød 17:30-18:00 Miguel Vázquez-Larruscain (Telemark University College) No tonal roots for stød in Scandinavia

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General Session – Morphology/Syntax

Monday 13th May Room 218 11:30-12:00 Guro Fløgstad (University of Oslo) Alternate paths: The expansion of the preterit in Rioplatense Spanish 12:00-12:30 Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (University of Connecticut) Peeling the onion: on domains and semantic hierarchies in Icelandic compounds LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Peter Svenonius (CASTL, University of Tromsø) & Ida Larsson (Stockholm University) English and Scandinavian participles and the Syntax-Morphology interface 14:30-15:00 Hans Götzsche (Aalborg University) Some remarks on word formation in Danish 15:00-15:30 Ellert Jóhannsson (Old Norse Prose Dictionary at University of Copenhagen) Some Changes in Icelandic Verb Endings 15:30-16:00 Sabina Matyiku (Yale University) Motivating Movement: The Case of Negative Inversion in West Texas English

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General Session - Historical

Monday 13th May Room 231 14:00-14:30 Eric Lander (Ghent University) & Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University) Some 'NP properties' in Old Norse 14:30-15:00 David Håkansson (Uppsala University) & Johan Brandtler (Ghent University) From Head to Spec: Negation in First Position in Swedish 15:00-15:30 Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University) Pancake sentences and gender system changes in Mainland Scandinavian 15:30-16:00 Serena Danesi (University of Bergen) Possessors, Experiencers and the Dative-like Genitive in Sanskrit COFFEE 16:30-17:00 Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (University of Iceland) How to do things with speech acts. An example from the Old Icelandic Morkinskinna

17:00-17:30 Hanne Martine Eckhoff (University of Oslo) Definiteness without definiteness: evidence from Old Church Slavonic

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General Session – Syntax/Semantics

Tuesday 14th May Room 218 15:00-15:30 Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Taste predicates, judgements and attitudes 15:30-16:00 Thorstein Fretheim (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) Unstressed demonstrative determiners in Norwegian

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Acknowledgements

The organizers of the 25-scl gratefully acknowledge the support from the following:

Cambridge University Press (UK)

Clara Lachmanns Fond (Sweden)

Letterstedtska föreningen (Sweden)

Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands/Institute of Linguistics, University of Iceland

Hugvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands/Centre for Research in the Humanities

Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson

We are grateful to the following institutions which have provided support for sign language interpretation at the 25-scl:

Háskóli Íslands/University of Iceland

Mennta- og menningarmálaráðuneytið/The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands/Institute of Linguistics, University of Iceland