2012/Upcoming
ICNGL 11 (International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics), Freiburg University, April 18-20: ‘Koffer dæm ikke sir det? [why they not say that]: Word order in wh-questions in North Norway.’

2011
MONS 14 (Møte om norsk språk), University of Tromsø, November 24-26: ‘Tospråklighet og ordstilling i norske possessivkonstruksjoner.’ (with Merete Anderssen).

The Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, Fefor, September 21-24: ‘Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Norwegian Possessive Constructions.’ (with Merete Anderssen)

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Thessaloniki, September 6-8: ‘Gender and definiteness in bilingual Norwegian-English acquisition.’ (with Yulia Rodina)

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Thessaloniki, September 6-8: ‘Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Norwegian Possessive Constructions.’ (with Merete Anderssen)

Variation and Typology: New trends in Syntactic Research, symposium, Helsinki, August 25-27: ‘The typology of verb movement in matrix wh-questions in Norwegian dialects.’ (with Terje Lohndal and Øystein Vangsnes)

IASCL 10 (International Congress for the Study of Child Language), Montreal, July 19-23: ‘The Acquisition of Word Order in Questions in English and Norwegian: Frames vs. Micro-cues.’ (with Kristine Bentzen)

ICLaVE 6 (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe), Freiburg, June 29-July 1: ‘Microvariation as diachrony: On how a minuscule grammatical change led to an elaborate pattern of synchronic variation.’ (with Terje Lohndal and Øystein A. Vangsnes)

ISB8 (International Symposium on Bilingualism), Oslo, June 15-18: ‘The Acquisition of Nominal Gender Marking in a Bilingual Norwegian-English child. (with Yulia Rodina)

ISB8 (International Symposium on Bilingualism), Oslo, June 15-18: Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Possessive Constructions.’ (with Merete Anderssen)

2nd Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics, Oslo, May 5-7: ‘Morphological awareness skills of Norwegian adolescent dyslexics acquiring English as a second language.’ (with Ömür Caglar-Ryeng)

Workshop talk at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Hamburg, April 21: ‘Subject positions and information structure: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.’

Workshop talk at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Hamburg, April 15: ‘The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.’

Invited Colloquium lecture at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Hamburg, April 14: ‘Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: The acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian.’

The VAMOS Workshop: Objects - Information Structure, Prosody and Acquisition, Tromsø, April 4-5: ‘Word order in double object constructions in German: The effect of animacy and information structure.’ (with Anita Røreng)

DGfS 33 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), Workshop on Word Order and Typology: The German Middle Field in a Comparative and Diachronic Perspective, Göttingen, February 23-25: ‘Word Order and Scrambling in Double Object Constructions in German.’ (with Anita Røreng)

ISWOC (Information Structure and Word Order Change) workshop on Information structure and corpus annotation: Theoretical and practical perspectives, Lysebu, January 7-9: ‘Word order and information structure in double object constructions.’ (with Anita Røreng)


2010
Workshop on Verb Movement: Its Nature, Triggers, and Effects, University of Amsterdam, December 11-12: Verb movement in matrix wh-questions in Norwegian dialects: Microvariation and diachrony.’ (with Terje Lohndal and Øystein A. Vangsnes)

Workshop on The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation, University of Tromsø, October 25-26, 2010: ‘Acquiring Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.’

Workshop on The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation, University of Tromsø, October 25-26, 2010: ‘The acquisition of gender (marking) in a Norwegian-English bilingual child: Comparison with monolingual acquisition.’ (with Yulia Rodina)

RALFe (Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique formelle: Langage, Langues et Cognition), University of Paris 8, October 14-16, 2010: ‘Wh-extraction and left peripheral syntax across Norwegian dialects.’ (with Terje Lohndal and Øystein A. Vangsnes)
           
GSFL (Language Contact and Change – Grammatical Structure Encounters the Fluidity of Language), NTNU, Trondheim, September 22-25: ‘The Development of matrix non-V2 wh-questions in Norwegian dialects.’ (with Terje Lohndal and Øystein A. Vangsnes)

ESF Exploratory workshop: Exploring the roots of linguistic diversity: Biolinguistic perspectives (Invited talk), Barcelona, September 20-22: ‘The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.’

Workshop on Immigrant Language in America (Invited talk), Madison, USA, September 16-17: ‘Variation in interrogative syntax across Norwegian dialects.’ (with Øystein A. Vangsnes)

6th International Conference on Language Acquisition (CIAL), Barcelona, September 8-10: ‘The acquisition of finiteness and inversion in English and Norwegian wh-questions.’ (with Kristine Bentzen)

Workshop on Tense and Aspect, Lisbon, July 1-2: ‘Finiteness and Word Order in the Acquisition of English and Norwegian Wh-questions.’ (with Kristine Bentzen)

NORMS Closing Seminar, Tromsø, June 10: ‘Wh-extraction and left peripheral syntax across Norwegian dialects.’ (with Terje Lohndal and Øystein Vangsnes)

Finiteness Fest: Workshop on Finiteness, Trondheim, May 6-7: ‘Finiteness and word order: The acquisition of wh-questions in English and Norwegian.’ (with Kristine Bentzen)

Grammatikseminariet, University of Lund, January 21: ‘Finiteness and Word Order in Acquisition: A Study of English and Norwegian Wh-Questions.’


2009
Invited talk, Universität Hamburg, December 7, 2009: ‘Variation, Acquisition and Change: The Development of V2 in English and Norwegian.’

MONS 13, Trondheim, November 26-28: ‘Subjektsposisjoner i norsk og historisk engelsk: Kan frekvens ha betydning for språkendringer? [Subject positions in Nor¬wegian and the history of English: The effect of frequency on language change.’]

Guest talk, University of Maryland, November 9, 2009: ‘Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy.’

Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), Boston, November 8: ‘Word Order and Finiteness in English and Norwegian Child Language: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.’ (with Kristine Bentzen)

Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), Boston, November 7: ‘Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order.’ (with Merete Anderssen)

Invited talk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 3, 2009: ‘Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy.’

Seminar on North Norwegian Dialects, University of Tromsø, September 28: ‘Koffør dem ikkje sir det?: On the Word Order of Wh-Questions in Northern Troms.’

Kvinneforskermaraton [Women’s Research Marathon], University of Tromsø, September 19: ‘Det vil æ ikke eller Det vil ikke æ: Hvordan barn lærer ordstilling.’

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 19), Nijmegen, August 10-14: ‘Subject Positions and Information Structure.’


2008
European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 7.5), Moscow, December 6-8: ‘A Cue-based Approach to the Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Russian’ (with Yulia Rodina).

Guest lecture, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, November 12: ‘Subject positions and information structure: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.’

NORMS Workshop on Subjects and the Architecture of Grammar, NTNU Trondheim, September 18-19: ‘Subject positions and information structure in main and embedded clauses: Corpus data from Norwegian and the history of English.’

15th ICEHL, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Munich, August 25-29: ‘Syntax and Information Structure: the diverse nature of V2 in early English.’ (with Ans van Kemenade)

Invited talk, Workshop on “Universal Grammar, Acquisition and Change”, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, August 26-27: ‘Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure and economy.’

Invited talk, International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Dyslexia and Language, University of Tromsø, June 18: ‘A Linguistic Perspective on the Acquisition of Norwegian.’ (with Merete Anderssen and Kristine Bentzen)

Invited talk, Wuppertal Workshop on “Frequency and Language Development”, June 5-6: ‘The Acquisition of Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian: Frequency Issues.’ (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen and Yulia Rodina).

Invited guest lecture, University of Lund, May 30: ‘Historisk utvikling av ordstilling i engelsk: Hvorfor er det alltid noe som ikke forandrer seg? [Historical development of word order in English: Why are there always some things that don’t change?]

Guest lecture, University of York, May 22: ‘Non-target-consistent word order in Norwegian child language: Pragmatics or economy?’

Invited talk,  Middle English Grammar Corpus Symposium, University of Stavanger, April 25-26: ‘Word order development in the history of English: why some things change and other things survive.’

Talk given at Pinker Party, on the occasion of Steven Pinker’s appointment as honorary doctor of the University of Tromsø, March 29: ‘Competition, Copying or Cues: The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Norwegian.’

CASTL colloquium, Tromsø, February 21: ‘The Acquisition of Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian.’ (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen and Yulia Rodina)


2007
Invited talk, Workshop on Linguistic Approaches to Narrative Text, University of Venice, November 21-22: ‘The role of syntax and information structure in the history of English: A study of word order development in narrative texts from the perspective of first language acquisition.’

Invited seminar talk, University of Venice, November 19: ‘Non-target-consistent Word Order in Norwegian Child Language: Pragmatics or Economy?’

Invited talk, Workshop on Information Structure and Word Order in Early Germanic, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 9-10: ‘Micro-cues and Information Structure: Historical Change from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.’

Invited talk, Workshop on Information Structure and Word Order in Early Germanic, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 9-10: ‘Syntax and Information Structure: The diverse nature of V2 in early English.’ (with Ans van Kemenade)

NAES 10 (Nordic Conference for English Studies), Workshop on English historical linguistics, University of Bergen, May 24-26: ‘Information Structure Drift and Word Order Changes in the History of English.’

DGfS 29 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), Workshop on “Microvariation in Quantificational Structures, University of Siegen, February 28 - March 2: ‘Microvariation as Diachrony: A View from Acquisition.’ (abstract)

DGfS 29 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), Workshop on “The Role of Information Structure on Language Change”, University of Siegen, February 28 – March 2: ‘Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift.’ (abstract) (handout)

Guest lecture at the University of Lund, February 15: ‘Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Early Child Language: Pragmatics or Economy?’

2006
NORMS Dialect Workshop on North Norwegian, University of Tromsø, October 30: ‘Microvariation as Diachrony: Wh-questions in Troms Dialects.’

CISCL Seminar, University of Siena, April 27: ‘Non-target Word Order in Norwegian Child Language: Evidence for Economy in Acquisition?’

CASTL/CLS workshop “Variation and Stability in Grammar”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, April 25: ‘Non-target Word Order in Early Child Language: Pragmatics vs. Economy.’ (handout)

DELS, Directions in English Language Studies, University of Manchester, April 6-8: ‘English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Inconsistency and Diachronic Development from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.’ (abstract) (handout)

Invited guest lecture at the University of Padova, March 23: ‘V2 Word Order in Norwegian and English: On the Frequency of the Input Cue and Possible Consequences for Language Change.’

IGG 32, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Florence, March 2-4: ‘Learning and Unlearning V2: On the Robustness of the Triggering Experience in a Historical Perspective.’ (abstract)

Guest lecture at the University of Siena, February 14: ‘Triggering V2: On the Frequency of the Input Cue and Possible Consequences for Language Change.’

2005 and earlier (a selection)
GALA 2005 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Siena, Italy, September 8-10, 2005: ‘Triggering V2: The Amount of Input Needed for Parameter Setting in a Split-CP Model of Word Order.’ (handout)