Language Data and Language Change (LDLC)
The LDLC research group provides a platform for cooperation among linguists – especially linguists working on Germanic and Romance languages – within and beyond the University of Bergen
About the research group
The research group aims to grant continuity to initiatives such as the 2020 and 2021 workshops on progressive constructions, at which leading scholars from European universities gave papers and engaged in discussion with colleagues from UiB. More generally, it aims to expand academic networks and favour the internationalization of linguistic research by building on the existing strengths of the Departments of Foreign Languages and Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (including CLARINO, the Norwegian infrastructure for language resources and technology).
The following (broadly conceived) fields and topics are particularly relevant to the activities of the research group: historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization, variation (according to genres and text-types, as well as sociolinguistic variables), language contact, and translation. The group does not have any a priori preference for particular theoretical frameworks or methodological approaches. However, special significance is attached to the use of philological and quantitative evidence; further exploring the role of corpora in the synchronic and diachronic study of grammatical structures is, indeed, a specific objective of this research group.
Projects
LDLC research group’s next meeting:
June 6, 2025 Seminar room 301, HF-bygget
At 13.00 Merja Riitta Stenroos (University of Stavanger)
“Low-frequency variation in late medieval English documents as a source of early language history”
LDLC previous group meetings
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LDLC research group’s meetings:
May 30, 2024
- Speakers: Dagmar Haumann (University of Bergen) and Kristin Killie (UiT Norwegian Arctic University)
Title of the talk:
‘Briefly, this is not how illocutionary adverbs developed’
- Speakers: Alessandro Carlucci (University of Bergen - present at University of Oxford) and Gaia Belardinelli (University of Bergen )
Title of the talk:
‘English influence on the Italian progressive periphrasis (stare + gerund)’
Sep 12, 2024
- George Walkden – (University of Konstanz)
Title of the talk:
‘Sosiolinguistic typology reevaluated’
- Kari Kinn (University of Bergen) and Mike Putnam (Penn State University)
Title of the talk:
‘Free relative clauses in North American Norwegian’
Sep 30, 2022
- Speaker: Paula Rautionaho (University of Eastern Finland)
Title of the talk: ‘The English progressive form in time and space’
- Speaker: Vincent Renner (University of Lyon 2)
Title of the talk: ‘Verbal inflection dropping in present-day French: A Twitter-based exploration of incipient language change’
Oct 28, 2022
- Speaker: Lorella Viola
(Vrije University Amsterdam)
Title of the talk:
‘Using sentiment analysis for linguistics research: Thoughts from experimental research in contemporary Italian’
Jun 14, 2023
- Speaker: Yulia Hathaway (University of Bergen)
Title of the talk:
‘Lexical negation in Coates’s discourse on race: The use of negative prefixes in COCO’
Sep 7, 2023
- Speaker: Séverine Wozniak (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Title of the talk:
‘Story-telling as data? How narratives can be used to study the discursive component of professional expertise’
- Speaker: Kristian A. Rusten (at the time Western Norway University of Applied Sciences - now University of Berge),
Title of the talk:
‘Is that-omission in English due to Scandinavian influence? Complementizer deletion in that-clauses from Old to Late Modern English’
People
Group manager
Jerzy Nykiel Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Kristian A. Rusten Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Group members
Koenraad De Smeedt Emeritus, University of Bergen
Dagmar Haumann Associate Professor, University of Bergen
Kjetil Berg Henjum Professor, University of Bergen
Kari Kinn Professor, University of Bergen
Margje Post Associate Professor, University of Bergen
Torodd Kinn Professor, University of Bergen
Matthias Eitelmann Associate Professor, University of Mainz and Assosiate Professor II at University of Bergen
Yulia Hathaway PhD Candidate, University of Volda/University of Bergen
Kristin Killie Professor, UiT The Artic University of Norway
Carolina Amador Moreno Professor, University of Extramadura
Alessandro Carlucci Honorary Faculty Research Fellow, University of Oxford