Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen)
Title: “Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies”: Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic (see the abstract). See also the Friday seminar web site.
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Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) Title: “Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies”: Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic (see the abstract). See also the Friday seminar web site. 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 same venue. 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 to attend these events. 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 concept of ‘translation unit’ in translation theory and its applicability to automatic translation. 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. 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 A new project META-NORD has started in Bergen. Its preliminary website is up, but it will be integrated in META-NET. |
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