Genuskongruens og transfer i norsk innlærerspråk

Fredag 10. januar, 2014, 14:15 – 16:00 (HF-bygget 217)

Her presenteres resultater fra pilotstudien til mitt pågående ph.d.-prosjekt om genuskongruens og morsmålspåvirkning (transfer) i norsk innlærerspråk. For å avdekke transfer, sammenligner jeg språkbruken til innlærere med morsmål (S1) som er ulike når det gjelder grammatisk genus og kongruens. Hovedhypotesen er at innlærere som har et […]

A psycholinguistically plausible alternative to the standard pipeline in Natural Language Processing

Monday December 16, 2013 at 12:15 – 13:00 (HF – bygget: 301)

Research in Natural Language Processing has assumed that high level tasks such as Natural Language Understanding can be solved by special purpose processes operating in a pipeline, called the standard pipeline. Work is then done on building the individual components. However, there appears […]

The Old Norse Gerundive

Friday December 6, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 372)

“… þá er þat skýrandi.”

Especially in literature translated from Latin, Old Norse employs a form similar to the present participle in order to translate the Latin gerundive (Ekki er kristnum manni meir flýjanda en ofmetnaðr from Nihil magis Christiano vitandum est quam superbia – […]

The elusive agent. A corpus-based study of Spanish passive and impersonal constructions.

Friday November 29, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

This project is a postdoctoral project for which I am currently applying for funding. It aims to reevaluate the passive/active status of the Spanish constructions “pasiva refleja” (PR), the periphrastic passive (PERP) and the “se impersonal” (IMP), using the LFG-framework and corpus linguistics, to ascertain […]

Sharing research data and results

Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard (LLE) held vitskapsteoretisk innlegg tysdag 19. november kl. 10:15 i seminarrom 301 i HF-bygget.

Victory for Google Books and n-grams

Judge Chin ruled that Google’s scanning of more than 20 million books for an electronic database, and making materials available for online searches constituted fair use. Also the use of Google Books for linguistic research on ngrams played a role in the decision.

Live streams from #TromSlang 6-8 November

The Tromsø International Conference on Language Diversity will be opened Wednesday 6 November at 09:30 by President of the Norwegian Saami Parliament, Aili Keskital. This session as well as most of the other plenary sessions at the conference will be live streamed over the internet.

Please consult the conference web site for further information […]