MINDS - Mind the structure!

Setup:

MINDS is a forum where (primarily) students get to present their exam papers or project ideas in (approx.) 10-15 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion.
See the intro slides: Welcome to MINDS - Mind the structure!
The setting will be very informal, and presentations will serve as inspiration for other students.

We would encourage people to come to all the meetings (not just the one where they present their own work) and to invite other students who might be interested.

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Spring '24

22.02.2024 (week 8).

14:15-15:00. Room 1481-366.

Note: this week, we're in room 366, not 324.

Peter Katballe-Kristensen: Comparing comparatives. [CTEL]

14.03.2024 (week 11).

14:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Niels Baungaard Riis: Neurodivergent discourses. [EL3]

18.04.2024 (week 16).

14:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Mathilde Buch Andersen: Genitive Variation in Late Modern English. [CTEL]

16.05.2024 (week 20).

14:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Julie Maria Rohde: Adverb raising. [PhD project]

Autumn '23

03.10.2023 (week 40).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

William Miki Thorsen: Experiments on negative polarity items.

07.11.2023 (week 45).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

Anne Mette Nyvad & Ken Ramshøj Christensen: Voice your opinion! On syntactic islands in spoken English and the influence of voice.

21.11.2023 (week 47).

cancelled

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

~~Natasja Dahl Kubo: Idiomatic expressions as an argument for VP-shells and VP-internal subjects. [Comparative Syntax (CoSy)]~~

05.12.2023 (week 49).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

Kathrine Rosendahl Ehlers: Reflections on reflexives.

Spring '23

28.02.2023 (week 9).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

Maria Mørch Dahl: Possessor extraction in English and Danish. [Current Topics in English Linguistics (CTEL)]

14.03.2023 (week 11).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

Sille Haley Bach Jensen: Structural differences and similarities between English and Standard Chinese Mandarin and their effects on L2 learning. [Current Topics in English Linguistics (CTEL)]

28.03.2023 (week 13).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

Otis Arnevik Lilley: Grammatical Gender and Cognition. [Current Topics in English Linguistics (CTEL)]

11.04.2023 (week 15).

11:15-12:00. Room 1481-324.

Sara Katrine Pauli Lorensen: I'm not rude, I'm Danish. Cross- cultural communication between native Danish and native English speakers. [English Linguistics 3 (EL3)]

25.04.2023 (week 17).

13:15-14:00. Room 1481-324.

Julie Maria Rohde: Adjunct islands in Danish - What, why, how?

~~Ken Ramshøj Christensen & Anne Mette Nyvad: Rare monsters. On the syntax and frequency of RC extractions and parasitic gaps.~~

Autumn '22

13.09.2022 (week 37).

13:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Sten Vikner: Clause structure and ambiguity.

27.09.2022 (week 39).

13:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Peter Katballe-Kristensen: Determiner phrase or genitive phrase? [Comparative Syntax (CoSy)]

11.10.2022 (week 41).

12:15-14:00. Room 1481-324.

~~CANCELLED: Anna-Merete Thinggaard: Loss of morphological case in English and Danish.~~ [BA-project]
Signe Høier Elvensø: English spoken in the Channel Islands. [BA-project]

01.11.2022 (week 44).

13:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Anne Mette Nyvad & Ken Ramshøj Christensen: Blind passengers. On extraction, transfer, and L2 English. [Island projects, pt. 2]

22.11.2022 (week 47).

13:15-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Julie Maria Rohde: How semantics might save a syntacticians life: Escaping the island structure. [Project placement ('praktik')]
Christina Maria Møller: The exception to the exception: An examination of V°-to-I°-movement in English and Danish and why finite auxiliaries in English don't move the way we expect them to. [Project placement ('praktik')]

Spring '22

24.02.2022 (week 08).

13:00-15:00. Room 1481-324.

Jonas Bengtson: Post-Intensifying. The Case of the Ass-Intensifier and Its Similar but Dissimilar Danish Counterpart. [Current Topics in English Linguistics (CTEL)]
Marlene Haulund Wilson: Women are being dominated by men, aren't they? A critical overview of tentative language and Robin Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place. [Current Topics in English Linguistics (CTEL)]

10.03.2022 (week 10).

12:15-14:00. Room 1481-324.

Loc-An Thi Nguyen: Subtractive bilingualism among children in immigrant families, family cohesion and acculturation: a critical overview. [English Linguistics 3 (EL3)]
Rikke Oddershede Laursen: Parentese: is there a method to the madness? [English Linguistics 3 (EL3)]

24.03.2022 (week 12).

12:15-14:00. Room 1481-324.

Caroline Kjærulff: 'She's so cute': Variation in third person singular pronouns used for inanimate referents. [English Linguistics 3 (EL3)]
Mette Hejberg Pedersen: English as a Lingua Franca: reasons, characteristics, and implications. [English Linguistics 3 (EL3)]
Trine Mærsk Kragsbjerg: The interpreter's role in the context of sign language communication: a critical overview. [English Linguistics 3 (EL3)]

07.04.2022 (week 14).

12:15-14:00. Room 1481-324.

Ken Ramshøj Christensen & Anne Mette Nyvad: Recursive treetops. RC islands in Danish and English. [Island projects, pt. 1]
Christiane Müller: Bridges and islands: Extractions from adjunct clauses in Danish, Swedish, and English. [Island projects, pt. 1]

28.04.2022 (week 16).

cancelled (postponed until the autumn)

~~Ken Ramshøj Christensen & Anne Mette Nyvad: Blind passengers. On extraction, transfer, and L2 English. [Island projects, pt. 2]~~

Autumn '21

01.10.2021 (week 39).

12:30-14:00. Room 1481-324.

15.10.2021 (week 41).

14:15-15:30. Room 1481-324.

29.10.2021 (week 43).

13:00-14:30. Room 1481-424.

Christiane Müller & Clara Ulrich Eggers: Island extractions in the wild. A corpus study on adjunct and relative clause extractions in Danish and English. [PhD/Post doc project]

19.11.2021 (week 46).

12:30-14:00. Room 1481-324.

Anna-Merete Thinggaard: Case Assignment in English, German and Danish. [Comparative Syntax (CoSy)]
Freja Hovgaard Knudsen: A Generative and Historical Comparison of PDE and EModE V-to-I and V2 and the Phrase 'How Come'. [Comparative Syntax (CoSy)]
Malene Brix Ley: Residual V2 and The Loss of V2 in English and French. [Comparative Syntax (CoSy)]

Contact:
Ken Ramshøj Christensen (krc@cc.au.dk),
Anne Mette Nyvad (amn@cc.au.dk),
Sten Vikner (sten.vikner@cc.au.dk)

Updated 14.03.2024