The third day of the meeting started off with invited speaker Leoni Cornips from Meertens Institute/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her talk "DO-support (?) in Dutch standard and non-standard adult and child speech" addressed DO-support as a dummy auxiliary and other uses of DO in Dutch. Cornips pointed out that research on the phenomena has oftentimes been simplified because linguists have ignored non-standard uses of aux+inf in adult standard Dutch and cases in which aux+inf structures in child languages and regional varieties of Dutch cannot be analyzed as having a dummy auxiliary DO.
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| Janne Bondi Johannessen and Piotr Garbacz |
Next up were talks from Janne Bondi Johannesson and Piotr Garbacz - on the preproprial article in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish - and Tanya Karoli Christensen and Torben Juel Jensen - on the word order in Danish subordinate clauses, and on problems that can arise when categorical theories meet actual language use data. Ásta Svavarsdóttirs talk followed, the subject of which was methodology and using more than one method in the study of a single linguistic feature, the Icelandic "dative-sickness" serving as a demonstration case.
After a lunch break, Pål Kristian Eriksen spoke about rich tense systems (Norwegian) and poor tense systems (Russian), and gave a formal analysis of the Russian tense system in the light of the Norwegian one, based on pragmatic notions such as topic and focus. Björn Lundqvist, the last speaker of the day, gave a talk on get-passives titled "Where Voice meets Modality: The Agentive Get-Passive as a modal construction".
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| Øystein Vangsnes |
This was followed by a presentation of project reports, and then the schedule said "Afternoon activities", which meant many things. For some, it meant playing miniature golf, for some partaking in a "walking"-tour on Gottskär and its history. For others the afternoon involved driving to Landvetter airport and then hiding from the rain with a crossword puzzle. The night ended with dinner and much singing for all.
Filippa Lindahl
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| The participants of N'CLAV Grand Meeting 2011 |
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