14 April: fyi -- phd school, Norway

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The Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology, University of
Bergen, advertises a national Ph.D. course, June 2-5, 2008, in Bergen, Norway

Title: Expanding Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics

Lecturers:
Charles F. Fillmore, Unversity of California, Berkeley
Hans C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin
Jóhanna Barðdal, University of Bergen, Norway
Kristian E. Kristoffersen, University of Oslo, Norway
Andreas Sveen, University of Oslo, Norway

Course description:
The course gives a general introduction to Construction Grammar and
Frame Semantics, in particular the FrameNet project and how that can
be implemented on other languages than English. The course will then
focus on how Construction Grammar can be further expanded to, for
instance, contrastive and comparative linguistics, historical
linguistics, and syntactic productivity. The course will also zoom in
on particular constructions that have been central within Construction
Grammar, like the Resultative construction and its representation in
English and German, and the Ditransitive construction and its
representation in Norwegian and other West-Scandinavian languages.

Program:
Monday, June 2:
09.00-09.15: Opening
09.15-12.00: Boas: Introduction: Construction Grammar in the 21st Century
12.00-13.00: lunch
13.00-16.00: Fillmore: FrameNet moves from Lexicon-Building to
Constructicon-Building

Tuesday, June 3:
09.00-12.00: Fillmore: FrameNet style Annotations of Construction
Types: Easy and Hard Cases
12.00-13.00: lunch
13.00-16.00: Boas: The English Resultative Construction: A Contrastive
Perspective

Wednesday, June 4:
09.00-12.00: Fillmore: Integrating Lexical Meanings and Construction Meanings
12.00-13.00: lunch
13.00-16.00: Barðdal, Kristoffersen and Sveen: The Ditransitive
Construction in West-Scandinavian: A Family of Constructions

Thursday, June 5:
09.00-12.00: Boas: Identifying Syntactically Relevant Units of Meaning
in Constructions
12.00-13.00: lunch
13.00-16.00: Barðdal: Syntactic Productivity: Extending Argument
Structure Constructions to New Verbs

Registration through e-mail to the coordinator of the Ph.D. Research
School, Eva Thue Vold (eva.vold@if.uib.no), by May 15.

The course is open to Ph.D. candidates from all countries as well as
other participants, but Ph.D. students from Norwegian institutions
will be given precedence in case the number of registrations exceeds
all expectations.

Fee, travel and subsistence costs:
Participation is free. Participants are required to carry travel and
subsistence costs and make the necessary arrangements themselves.

Accommodation:
Participants should book hotel rooms or other accommodation AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE, since finding a room in Bergen can oftentimes be difficult
in June.

For more information, see the website:

http://www.hf.uib.no/forskerskole/CxG.html

Jóhanna Barðdal, organizer

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Jóhanna Barðdal
Research Associate Professor
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway
johanna.barddal@uib.no

Phone +47-55582438 (work)
Phone +47-55201117 (home)
Fax +47-55589354 (work)

http://www.hf.uib.no/i/lili/SLF/ans/barddal


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