Deadline to Apply: June 1 for autumn semester; December 1 for spring semester
(UiT PhD students register for class and exam by September 1st in autumn semester and February 1st in spring semester)
“Aspect in the Arctic” International conference
September 5-6, 2019
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
This conference follows a PhD course at UiT The Arctic University of Norway:
See URL: https://uit.no/utdanning/emner/emne/620639/hif-8038
Please note International Applicants should apply here: https://fsweb.no/soknadsweb/login.jsf
Invited speakers:
María J. Arche University of Greenwich
Östen Dahl Stockholm University
Stephen M. Dickey University of Kansas
Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Antonio Fábregas UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Laura A. Janda UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Gillian Ramchand UiT The Arctic University of Norway
ProgramTime Day 1: Thursday September 5 Day 2: Friday September 6
8.30–9.00 Registration & welcome words Organisation notes
9.00 – 9.45 Keynote lecture Östen Dahl (Stockholm U) Keynote lecture María J. Arche (U of Greenwich)
9.45 – 10.15 Talk 1 Eystein Dahl (UiT) “The Neutral Aspect in Diachrony and Discourse” Talk 7 Rothman et al. (UiT, LAVA) “Convergence with Divergent Performance: Grammatical Aspect and the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CPH)”
10.15 – 10.45 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK
10.45– 11.30 Keynote lecture Gillian Ramchand (UiT) Keynote lecture Antonio Fábregas (UiT)
11.30– 12.00 Talk 2 Sergey Minor (UiT, CASTLfish) “Aspect and Quantification in Russian” Talk 8 Natalia Jardon Perez (UiT, CASTLfish) “Distributional and aspectual properties of the perfect auxiliary construction [tener + participle] in Eonavian Spanish”
12.00– 12.30 Talk 3 Björn Lindquist (UiT, LAVA) “True exponents of viewpoint aspect, and exponents triggering specific aspectual interpretations” Talk 9 Marija Runić “When Slavic meets Romance: verbal aspects in contact”
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH LUNCH
13.30 – 14.15 Keynote lecture Laura Janda (UiT, CLEAR) Keynote lecture Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova (NTNU)
14.15–14.45 Talk 4 Tore Nesset (UiT, CLEAR)
“What’s in an aspectual prefix?” Talk 10 Anna Endresen and Laura A. Janda (UiT, CLEAR) “The role of modality in Russian aspect: Evidence from an experimental study”
14.45–15.15 Talk 5 Maria Nordrum “Aspectual twins and how they work in modern Russian” Talk 11 Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Svetlana Sokolova (UiT, CLEAR) “Aspect in Coordination: The basic aspectual patterns in Russian narrative sequences”
15.15–15.45 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK
15.45–16.30 Keynote lecture Stephen Dickey (U of Kansas)
15.45–16.15 Talk 12 Daria Kosheleva (UiT, CLEAR) “Aspectual rivalry in the future tense in Russian”
16.30–17.00 Talk 6 Marija Runić and Strahinja Dimitrijević (U of Banja Luka, Laboratory for Experimental Psychology) “Prepositions and perfective verbs in L2 Serbo-Croatian” 16.15–16.45 Talk 13 Marco Biasio (U of Padova, Italy) “It is what it has been or will be: tense-aspect shift in Slavic performatives”
18.00 CONFERENCE DINNER CULTURAL EVENT
HIF-8038 Aspect across languages and linguistic schools – 5 stp
Application deadline
Ph.d.-students at UiT register for class and exam in Studentweb by September 1st in autumn semester and February 1st in spring semester.
Other applicants: Application deadline June 1st for autumn semester and December 1st for spring semester. Application code 9303 in Søknadsweb.
Type of course
The course can be taken as a single course by doctoral students from Norway and other countries.
Admission requirements
MA in language / linguistics or related field is obligatory requirement.
PhD students or holders of a Norwegian Master´s Degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) may be admitted. PhD students must upload a document from their university stating that they are registered PhD students.
Holders of a Master´s Degree must upload a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. Applicants from listed countries must document proficiency in English. To find out if this applies to you see the following list: Profiency in English
For more information on accepted English proficiency tests and scores, as well as exemptions from the English proficiency tests, please see the following document: https://uit.no/Content/254419/PhD_EnglishProficiency_100913.pdf
The course does not have a limited number of seats. Any doctoral student with an interest in aspect and verbal categories is encouraged to attend.
Application code 9303.
Course contents
The course will discuss peculiar properties of grammatical aspect, one of the most versatile and striking grammatical categories of natural languages. The primary objective of the course is to present recent accounts of aspect in terms of various theoretical frameworks, including contemporary cognitive and formal approaches. The focus will be on rich empirical data from a variety of languages, including Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Romance and Indo-Iranian languages (in particular English, Russian, Bulgarian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Hindi) as well as some non-Indo-European languages. The course will cover both broad-ranging issues regarding aspect as well as research findings of the instructors. Each instructor will hold a lecture and a tutoring session for students. The topics of the lectures are the following:
1. “On the primitives of aspect across languages and their acquisition” (María J. Arche, University of Greenwich)
2. “(Im)perfectivity across languages and theories” (Antonio Fábregas and Laura A. Janda, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
3. “The interface of lexical semantics / clause structure and aspect” (Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
4. “Aspectual categories across languages: semantic vs. morphological criteria” (Gillian C. Ramchand, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
5. “TAME in a multilingual parallel corpus” (Östen Dahl, Stockholm University)
6. “A cognitive account of statements of fact in the Slavic East-West aspect division” (Stephen M. Dickey, University of Kansas)
Objective of the course
By the end of the course the student has obtained the following:
Knowledge
The student has
• an overview of major theoretical approaches to grammatical aspect;
• an advanced knowledge of how the category of aspect is grammatically represented in a wide range of languages;
• an overview of recent research findings on aspect and different theoretical approaches to aspect;
• knowledge of different analyses of specific aspectual phenomena and data.
Skills
The student is able to
• apply different theories and methodologies to his / her own research on aspect;
• actively participate in academic discussion related to the topic;
• formulate and present his/her own research questions and research findings;
• write a course paper / scholarly article of reduced length under supervision.
Language of instruction
The course will be taught in English. The students should write their course papers in English.
Teaching methods
This is a three-day intensive course. The course will offer 6 lectures (2 hours each) and 3 tutorial sessions (2 hours each). Each day will consist of 2 lectures, lunch, and 1 tutorial session for students` presentations and discussions of students` projects with course instructors. After the course, there will also be a workshop on aspect that PhD students are welcome to attend at their expense.
All courses will be evaluated once during the period of the study program. The board of the program decides which courses will be evaluated by students and teacher each year.
Assessment
The following coursework requirements must be completed and approved in order to take the final exam:
• reading the required scholarly articles prior to the course (about 350 pages in total)
• attending all teaching sessions;
• making a short presentation of the students` project (ppt & handout are required). If the student’s research does not concern aspect, the topic of his/her presentation should be discussed individually prior to the course.
The course paper should be 8 pages long (about 4000 words). The essay will be evaluated as pass/fail.
Retake is offered in in the beginning of the following semester in cases of grade F or Fail. Deferred examination is offered in the beginning of the following semester if the student is unable to take the final exam due to illness or other exceptional circumstances. Registration deadline for retake is January 15 for autumn semester exams and August 15 for spring semester exams.
Schedule
Lectures Autumn 2019
lectures prof. Gillian Catriona Ramchand
prof. Laura Alexis Janda
prof. Antonio Fabregas
tutoring prof. Gillian Catriona Ramchand
prof. Laura Alexis Janda
prof. Antonio Fabregas
exam 01.10.2019
Hvordan søke?
KONTAKT
Laura A Janda
Professor russisk språkvitenskap
Telefon: +4777645680 laura.janda@uit.no
McDonald, James David (jmc005@post.uit.no)