Lectures by Beatrice Primus

Beatrice Primus from the University of Cologne will give two lectures:

Tuesday Aug. 30 at 14:15 in Aud. D: Agentivity in Impersonal Passives

Wednesday Aug. 31 at 14:15 in Aud. D: Empirical Methods and Explanations

META-NORD started

A new project META-NORD has started in Bergen. Its preliminary website is up, but it will be integrated in META-NET.

New project to Jóhanna Barðdal

Congratulations to Jóhanna Barðdal for obtaining support from the RCN for her project “Emergence of Non-Canonical Case Marking in Indo-European”!

Gard Jenset defends his PhD

On Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, Gard Buen Jenset will defend his PhD thesis at the University of Bergen. This will take place at 9:30 in Aud. B at Sydneshaugen Skole. The day before, on Thursday Aug. 26, he will present his trial lecture at 17:30 at the same place.

Lectures on Grammaticalization

Brian D. Joseph, professor in Linguistics and South Slavic languages at Ohio State University, will present two lectures in Bergen. They will be held in SH:E (Aud. E, Sydneshaugen skole) on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May from 14:15 to 16:00.

Part I: A General Critique of Grammaticalization Part II: Is there Such a Thing […]

INESS starts up

A new language infrastructure project has started up at the University of Bergen. INESS, the infrastructure for syntactic and semantic exploration, intends to build a detailed annotated corpus for Norwegian and to provide an advanced web service for parsebanking, usable for any language. The project is led by Victoria Rosén and will run until 31 […]

Margrete Dyvik defends PhD

Cand. Philol. Margrete Dyvik Cardona gives her trial lecture for her PhD degree on Thursday Feb. 18, 2010 at 6 pm in SH:B (Sydneshaugen skole, Aud. B), Bergen, on the following subject:

The relevance of Aktionsart for the Spanish tense-aspect system

She defends her PhD dissertation on Friday Feb. 19, 2010 at 9:30 am in […]