Meeting schedule spring semester 2026
January 14 - Colin Davis - Superlative adjectives and the Final Over Final Condition
February 4 - Patrik Bye - Explaining the evolutionary pathways of Central Peninsular North Germanic /ŏ/
February 25 - Invited speaker Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham) - Corpus Linguistics and Its Applications to Language Education
March 18 - Hannah Danbolt Ajer - Word-order variation in the Lule Sámi adpositional phrases
April 8 - Open
April 29 - Invited speaker David Albert Natvig (University of Stavanger)
Our publications and activities
Publication 2/2026 by Patrik Bye - Morpheme ordering. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics.
Publication 12/2025 by Colin Davis and Hyewon Jang. A theoretical and experimental investigation of the morpho-syntax of an anti-honorific prefix in Korean. In The Grammar of Impoliteness, ed. by Daniel Van Olmen, Marta Andersson, Jonathan Culpeper, and Riccardo Giomi. De Gruyter Mouton.
Presentation 12/2025 by Patrik Bye and Jade Sandstedt - West Nordic umlaut, Old Norwegian vowel harmony, and the life cycle. The Seventh Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP7), 1-2 December, 2025.
Poster 12/2025 by Patrik Bye - A templatic account of three Middle Scots alliterative poems. The Seventh Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP7), 1-2 December, 2025.
Presentation 10/2025 by Richard Kowalik - Grammatikk, språkbeskrivelse og en «ny» sørsamisk grammatikk [Grammar, language description, and a “new” Southern Sami grammar]. Sami Language Week in Snåsa 2025.
Publication 8/2025 by Colin Davis - On the syntax and semantics of parasitic gaps in relative clauses formed by extraction from noun phrases: An argument for successive-cyclicity in the NP. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 10.
Publication 6/2025 by Patrik Bye - Lexical accent and intonation in Peninsular North Germanic: pragmatics, phonology, geography, history. In Pavel Iosad and Björn Köhnlein (eds.) Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Tonal Accent, pp. 146–174. (Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Publication 4/2025 by Colin Davis and David Diem - Doubling by movement within and from PP in Lustenau Alemannic: On the structure of prepositional phrases and the realization of copies. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 10.
Publication 12/2024 by Minerva Piha - Vocabulary Related to Iron Manufacture and Iron-Working in Saami Languages: An Etymological Study. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2024 (69): 135–183.