Category Archives: Presentations

More CASTL`s activities this week and next week

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

More CASTL`s appearance in other parts of Europe this week and next week. Alexander Pfaff is traveling to Amsterdam to give a talk on re- and Postnominal Adjectives from an Icelandic Perspective at the conference entitled “Adjectives in Germanic  and … Continue reading →

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Let CASTL glow in GLOW again!

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

We now cannot let the prestigious GLOW conference glow without CASTL being present. This year, the recent tradition of CASTL`s appearance in GLOW will be continued by Kristine Bentzen and Peter Svenonius with their poster presentations on Discourse effects on … Continue reading →

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Marit in Freiburg…

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Senior researcher and the center director Marit Westergaard will give a talk ‘Microvariation as diachrony: On how a minuscule grammatical change led to an elaborate pattern of synchronic variation’ in the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE).  … Continue reading →

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Michal teaching at the 5th LISSIM!

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Senior Researcher Michal Starke will be teaching Nanosyntax in the 5th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains. You can learn various topics in syntax and semantics. The list of the instructors also includes KA Jayaseelan (English and Foreign Language … Continue reading →

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The May tours for CASTL researchers…

Posted on May 6, 2011 by

Senior researcher and the center director Marit Westergaard has left for Oslo in order to talk about one of her latest collaborative works with her student Ömür Caglar-Ryeng in the 2nd Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics. The talk is entitled … Continue reading →

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One. Million. Kroner

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

How does that sound to you? Not bad? Well, this is exactly how much the Tromsø Research Foundation has granted to the project Bilingual Immigrant Children in North Norway: The Norwegian Welfare Society and the Language of Russian-Norwegian Children; from … Continue reading →

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And for some less orthodox events….

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

Well, let’s start with some more, ahem, orthodox news: CASTL post-doc Roksolana Mykhaylyk is going to present Change in Prosody as an Alternative: Evidence from Acquisition at the 35th Penn Linguistics Colloquium in Philadelphia in March. So be there! Anyway, here … Continue reading →

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February news: DGfS, nominations

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

Right, just because somebody at CASTL Blog HQ sometimes forgets to press the “Publish” button doesn’t mean nothing is going on. Here’s a recap of (relatively) recent news: CASTL was prominent on the program of the 2011 edition of the … Continue reading →

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Resuming normal service…

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

…on two fronts. First, congratulations to CASTL PhD students Éva Dékány and Sandhya Sundaresan, whose presence will grace the 34th GLOW colloquium in glamorous Vienna in April. Éva will talk about Spurious NP Ellipsis in Hungarian, while Sandhya presents A syntactic feature-calculus … Continue reading →

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When it’s silent on the blog…

Posted on January 27, 2011 by

…it doesn’t mean it’s silent in CASTL. Despite the prolonged radio silence (sorry about that!), we’ve been keeping ourselves busy. Here are some highlights of the past couple of weeks: CASTL phonologists traversed basically the entire continent (and then some) … Continue reading →

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