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. It 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.

Group coordinators:  Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel

Previous LDLC group's meeting

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 (University of Luxembourg)
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 M. Rusten (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences),
Title of the talk: ‘Is that-omission in English due to Scandinavian influence? Complementizer deletion in that-clauses from Old to Late Modern English’

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) and Gaia Belardinelli (University of Bergen)
Title of the talk: ‘English influence on the Italian progressive periphrasis (stare + gerund)’

Questions?

Please contact Jerzy Nykiel or Alessandro Carlucci (see details below)