Recent and forthcoming talks

• Languages at the interfaces: Where Russian meets Norwegian, Russia-Eurasia Seminar 2012: From individual choices to national strategies of international cooperation in education – Challenges and possibilities in the cooperation with Eurasia and Russia, Stavanger, December 2012.

• Temporal hjelpeverb, Seminar in Honor of Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Sørnesset, November 2012.

• Livet som OA-tidsskriftredaktør, Open Access-seminar - Slipp forskningen fri, UiO, October 2012.

• Om bruken av parallellkorpora i språkforskning. Noen anvendelser av RuN-korpuset, Forskergruppe i leksikografi, seminar, UiO, October 2012

• Parallel corpora and the syntax-semantics interface, Workshop on parallel corpora, Mainz, September 2012.

• On tense and aspect in habituals, Structures of Meaning. Workshop in Honor of Arnim von Stechow , Konstanz, November 2011.

• Markers of habituality: pleide å, used to, byvalo and others, FTL-seminar, UiO, October 2011.

• Å forske på modalitet: fra parallellkorpora til semantikk, Smaksprøver på språkforskning – seminar for masterstudenter og forskere ved ILOS, Oslo, September 2011.

• Tense in Adjuncts (with Arnim von Stechow), Discourse Representation, Comprehension and Production in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, Final conference CAS, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, June 2011.

• Byt' nesovershennym - eto ne vsegda nedostatok, Bashkirskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogicheskij universitet, Ufa (Guest lecture 5), May 2011.

• (Ne)soglasovanie vremen v pridatochnykh predlozhenijakh, Bashkirskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogicheskij universitet, Ufa (Guest lecture 4), May 2011.

• Modal'nost' i kontrafakticheskie konstrukcii, Bashkirskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogicheskij universitet, Ufa (Guest lecture 3), May 2011.

• Formal'no-semanticheskij analiz vido-vremennykh sistem v russkom, anglijskom i francuzskom jazykakh, Bashkirskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogicheskij universitet, Ufa (Guest lecture 2), May 2011.

• Vvedenie v zapadnuju lingvistiku, Bashkirskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogicheskij universitet, Ufa (Guest lecture 1), May 2011.

• Subjunctive conditionals across languages (with Arnim von Stechow), CAS, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, April 2011.

• The Russian Observer, Workshop on Perspective in Discourse, CAS, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, March 2011.

• Subordinate tense in parallel corpora (joint work with Arnim von Stechow), Corpus-based Approaches to Typological and Contrastive Studies, Gothenburg, December 2010.

• Bare PPs - an empirical study of Norwegian (joint work with le Bruyn, de Swart and Zwarts), A definiteness workshop, Oslo, November 2010.

• Languages and research cooperation across the borders, Cooperation with Russia in Higher Education and Research, The Norwegian Research Council’s Arctic and Northern Areas Conference 2010, Tromsø, November 2010.

• Sjakk og kunstig intelligens, Upop-aften, Det Norske Studentersamfund, Chateau Neuf, Oslo, September 2010.

• Parallellkorpora - en gave til MA-studenter (?), Velkomstforelesning for nye MA-studenter, ILOS, Oslo, August 2010.

• Adjunct tense and the SOT parameter (with Arnim von Stechow), The Russian Verb, St. Petersburg, May 2010.

• Bare PPs across languages (joint talk with le Bruyn, de Swart and Zwarts), NIAS Workshop: Exploring Weak Indefinites Across Languages, Utrecht, March 2010.

• Tense and aspect in counterfactual constructions with data from parallel corpora on Germanic, Romance and Slavic (joint work with Arnim von Stechow), Stockholm, Linguistic seminar, March 2010.

• RuN-prosjektet og parallellkorpora: en ny innfallsvinkel til kontrastive språkstudier, gjesteforelesning, Stockholm, March 2010.

• Aspektkonkurranse i russisk (slides) , Slavisk seminar, Stockholm, March 2010.

• The sequence of tense parameter - a formal and cross-linguistic perspective with data from parallel corpora, Uppsala, Slaviska högre seminarier, March 2010. (joint work with Arnim von Stechow - see also our paper Subordinate tense in Russian. A formal and cross-linguistic perspective at the RuN-conference Russian in Contrast, Oslo, September 2009).

• The sequence of tense parameter - a view from parallel corpora (joint work with Arnim von Stechow), FTL-seminar, UiO, February 2010.

• Paralleller og kontraster mellom språk, Faglig-pedagogisk dag ved UiO, January, 2010.

• Tense in counterfactuals (with data from parallel corpora) (slides) , Trondheim, NORMS workshop, December 2009. (joint work with Arnim von Stechow - see also our paper Temporal Organization of Subjunctive Conditionals at the CSMN-conference The state of the Stalnaker-Lewis semantics for conditionals, Oslo, September 2009).

• Russian in Contrast: a view from parallel corpora (slides) , Russian in Contrast, Oslo, September 2009.

• The RuN corpus, RuN workshop on corpus linguistics, Oslo, June 2009.

• When being imperfect is optimal - competition in Russian aspect (slides) , Forth Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, Utrecht, June 2009.

• Bare nominals in parallel corpora, Presentation of quantitative data from parallel corpora at the meeting of the Utrecht research group on bare nominals, Utrecht, June 2009.

• Imperfective aspect in French and Russian - semantics vs. pragmatics (slides) , Guest lecture, Utrecht, June 2009.

• Presentasjon av en flerspråklig database med idiomatiske uttrykk (slides) , Norla og Utenriksdepartementets Internasjonal oversetterkonferanse, Hønefoss, May 2009.

• RuN-OMC - om parallellkorpora for moderne språk, HF-vitenskap på nettet: Noen løpende prosjekter og deres internettimplementering, Oslo, February 2009.

• Grounding anti-presuppositions by strong BiOT - the case of indefinite descriptions (with Kjell Johan Sæbø) (slides) , Third Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, Groningen, November 2008.

• RuN-prosjektet: en ny innfallsvinkel til kontrastive norsk-russiske studier, Norsk-russisk kultursenters høstseminar, Oslo, november 2008.

• Competing BiOT-perspectives on functional morphemes (with Kjell Johan Sæbø) (slides) , Second Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, ZAS Berlin, February 2008.

• Form-meaning optimization, FTL-seminar, UiO, February 2008.

• A note on negation and anaphora - from Norwegian to Russian, FTL-seminar, Bråtan, Nordmarka, September 2007.

• Indefinites in argument and predicate positions (Landman 2004), Seminar i teoretisk lingvistikk , UiO, September 2007.

• Horn Strategies and Optimization in Russian Aspect (slides) , Language, Games, and Evolution, ESSLLI workshop, Dublin, August 2007

• Context-Sensitive Bidirectional OT: a New Approach to Russian Aspect (handout) , Conference on Bidirectional Optimality Theory , Berlin, May 2007.

• Presentation of a dynamic theory of modals and counterfactuals (Asher and McCready) (handout) , Seminar i teoretisk lingvistikk , UiO, April 2007.

• Krav til teori og internasjonalisering i forskning på fremmedspråk (innledningsforedrag),HF fram mot 2017 - åpent seminar og debattmøte, UiO, 13. mars 2007.

• Aspectual competition in Russian as bidirectional optimisation (handout) , FDSL-6.5 , Nova Gorica, Slovenia, December 2006.

• Compositionality in counterfactuals / Past tense in counterfactuals (handout) , Seminar i teoretisk lingvistikk , UiO, November/December 2006.

• A compositional theory of counterfactuals (handout) , Chronos 7 , Antwerpen, September 2006.

• Information Structure and Aspectual Competition, The Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language , Besenyotelek, Hungary, August 2006

• Irrealis and sequence of TAM, Concord Phenomena and the Syntax Semantics Interface , ESSLLI workshop, Malaga, August 2006

• Imperfective aspect and past tense in the marking of irrealis in Russian, Language Typology in a Diachronical Perspective, Second Colloquium in Göteborg, May 2006.

• Tense and aspect at the syntax-semantics interface, invited lecture Moscow State University (MGU), April 2006.

• Imperfectivity and event anaphora, Formal Semantics in Moscow 2, Moscow, April 2006.

• Relative past and the syntax-semantics interface in Russian, FDSL-6, Potsdam, November 2005.

• NNN - nakne nominaler i norsk, Seminar i teoretisk lingvistikk, Oslo (UiO), October 2005.

• Presuppositional variance and aspectual meaning, ESSLLI, Edinburgh, August 2005.

• Imperfektivitet og avsluttede eventer, Seminar i teoretisk lingvistikk, Oslo (UiO), February 2005.

• Imperfectivity and complete events, Language Typology in a Diachronical Perspective, First Colloquium in Göteborg, November 2004.

• Conflicts between word order and information structure in Russian, trial lecture dr. art, Oslo, June 2004.

• A dynamic approach to "Presuppositional Ipf", Conference for researchers in Slavic linguistics, Kungälv, June 2003.

• The interaction between tense and aspect, Syntaksseminaret, Oslo (UiO), November 2002.

• Teliske aspektpar og avbruddsproblemet i russisk, The XV Conference of Scandinavian Slavists, Tromsø, August 2000.