Hitches in Historical Linguistics

Prosjektet IECSTP/NonCanCase inviterer til ei dugnadsgruppe innafor historisk språkvetskap “Hitches in Historical Linguistics” torsdagen 23. og fredgen 24. februar. Gjester er bl.a. Henning Andersen (UCLA), Ritsuko Kikusawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka), Laurie Reid (University of Hawaii) og Erik Andvik (SiL).

Facebook, multilingualism and sociolinguistics

Jannis Androutsopoulos (U of Hamburg) is visiting us in Bergen. He will hold a lecture on Mon 13 Feb, 9:30–12h on Multilingual practices on Facebook: five principles of ‘networked multilingualism’ and a case study, in SH:P. He will also hold a workshop in the afternoon, 13–16h on Sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of social media data […]

Short history of MT

A short history of Machine Translation has been written up by Carla Parra, who works as an early stage researcher at the LaMoRe research group. The article has been published in the Spanish magazine La Linterna del Traductor.

Applicatives in Tigrinya

Nazareth Amlesom Kifle will defend her thesis titled Tigrinya Applicatives in Lexical-Functional Grammar on January 20, 2012. The defense is in Auditorium B, Sydneshaugen Skole, Bergen. The opponents are Prof. Mary Dalrymple (U. of Oxford) and Prof. Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex). The day before, she will give a trial lecture at 16:30 at the […]

Sense defense

Gunn-Inger Lyse will defend her PhD dissertation entitled Translation-based Word Sense Disambiguation on Friday Dec. 9 at 9:30 at UiB, Sydneshaugen Skole, Aud. B. The day before, Thursday Dec. 8 at 16:30, she will give a trial lecture entitled Using Translations as Word Senses in the same auditorium. All interested scholars and students are welcome […]

Thesis defense of Martha Thunes

Martha Thunes will defend her PhD thesis on Nov. 4 at 9:30 in SH:B. The title is Complexity in Translation. An English-Norwegian Study of Two Text Types.

The day before, she will give two trial lectures at the same venue. The titles are:

16:15: When do words correspond translationally? A discussion of principles.

17:15: The […]

Statistics for linguistics

Chris Butler is giving a five-day intensive course on Statistics from Oct. 24 to 28, 2011. The course is organized by the Research School on Linguistics and Philology; contact Victoria Rosén for more information.