NORMS Workshop on Determination

Tromsø, 18 – 19 March 2009

Invited speakers:

Tom Leu, Yale University
Tarald Taraldsen, University of Tromsø

Hosted by CASTL and organized by the NORMS thematic group on The Syntax of Noun Phrases.

Description and registration information

See the Call For Papers and Participation.

Program (Abstracts)

Location: UB 132 (University Library Auditorium)

Individual abstracts can also be downloaded below by clicking .

Wednesday 18 March
10.15 - 10.45	Coffee and small talk
10.45 - 11.30	Merete Anderssen (Tromsø, CASTL/NORMS): Multiple indefiniteness markers and adjectival inflection in a North Norwegian dialect
11.30 - 12.15	Erik Schoorlemmer (Leiden): Germanic definiteness marking: morphological variations on the same syntactic theme
12.15 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 14.15	Janne B. Johannessen, Signe Laake and Arne Martinus Lindstad (Oslo, NORMS): Dative in Norwegian – evidence from three dialects
14.15 - 15.00	Tabea Ihsane (Geneva): Determination revised: languages with and without determiners
15.00 - 15.30	Break
15.30 - 16.45	Tom Leu (Yale): Detecting the adjectival article in determiners, quantifiers, and agreement alternations
20.00	Social event: Dinner at Sjøgata XII (open for all participants)
Thursday 19 March
10.00 - 11.15	Knut Tarald Taraldsen, (Tromsø, CASTL/NORMS): Why that isn't a complementizer
11.15 - 12.00	Øystein A. Vangsnes (Tromsø, CASTL/NORMS): On the polyfunctionality of WHICH in Övdalian
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 13.45	Kersti Börjars and John Payne (Manchester): Definiteness in the Scandinavian noun-phrase: an LFG account
13.45 - 14.30	Tania Strahan (Reykjavík, NORMS): Definiteness and Norwegian pronouns
14.30 - 14.45	Closing words
	Cancelled
	Muhsina Alleesaib (Paris/Berlin): Insights on the 'definite' determiner LA in Mauritian