Selected talks and presentations

2024

• Anya Vinichenko, Maud Westendorp and Björn Lundquist. ‘Mapping written and spoken varieties of Norwegian in the minds of Norwegian adolescents’. ICLaVE12 – 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, July 8-11.
• Maud Westendorp and Björn Lundquist. ‘A symmetric account of asymmetric V2’. Microvariation and microchange in the Scandinavian languages, May 14-16.

2023

• [invited] Maud Westendorp. ‘Non-V2 wh-questions and other V2-deviations in Norwegian: rethinking the North Germanic CP’. V2, or not V2, that is the question: On verb placement in interrogatives, IKER-CNRS and Universität Konstanz. June 7-8.
• Björn Lundquist, Maud Westendorp, Anya Vinichenko and Øystein A. Vangsnes. ‘Is reading the same as translation for young multi-lectal speakers?’. Human Sentence Processing 2023, March 9–11.

2022

• Maud Westendorp and Øystein A. Vangsnes. ‘Ordstillingsvariasjon i hv-spørsmål i sognemål: syntaktiske og prosodiske faktorer’. Gramino 3: Grammatik i Norden, June 9–10.

2021

• Maud Westendorp. ‘Deviations from asymmetric V2 in Norwegian: code-switching or variable rules?’. 5th Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology, March 11-12 2021. [slides]
• Maud Westendorp and Björn Lundquist. ‘The presence of light objects affects variable verb and subject placement in North Germanic’. 43. Jahrestagung der DGfS “Modell und Evidenz”, Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, February 23-26 2021. [slides]

2020

• Maud Westendorp. ‘Verbplassering i underordnede setninger i færøysk’. Miniworkshop om variation och förändring, University of Oslo/Østfold University College, October 22. [slides]
• Björn Lundquist and Maud Westendorp. ‘Object shift feeds variable verb and subject placement: implications for linearization and production planning’. Linearising Constituents Across Domains, Bled, Slovenia, October 15-16. [slides]

2019

• [invited] Maud Westendorp. ‘Embedded V2 in Faroese and Mainland Scandinavian’. Meaning and grammar seminar, The University of Edinburgh. October 15, 2019.
• Björn Lundquist and Maud Westendorp. ‘On the subtle and ephemeral effects of reflexives on verb and subject placement’. Workshop on Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase, University of Oslo, December 5-6.
• Maud Westendorp. ‘Embedded V2 in North Germanic: results from a production study’. Workshop on V2 and related phenomena in acquisition, variation, and attrition, University of Oslo, October 22-23.
• Björn Lundquist, Ida Larsson, Maud Westendorp, Eirik Tengesdal and Anders Nøklestad. ‘Presenting the Nordic Word Order Database’. Poster presented at ICLaVE 10: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Leeuwarden, June 26-28.
• Maud Westendorp and Björn Lundquist. ‘Embedded V2 in Faroese and Mainland Scandinavian: results from a production study’. ICLaVE 10: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Leeuwarden, June 26-28.
• Maud Westendorp and Björn Lundquist. ‘No transfer of word order, but transfer of factors conditioning word order: evidence from Dutch L2 learners of Norwegian and Swedish’. Workshop on Cross-linguistic influence, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, May 20-21.
• Björn Lundquist, Ida Larsson, Maud Westendorp and Eirik Tengesdal. ‘The Nordic Word Order Database: New methods for studying variation within and between speakers and varieties in North Germanic’. European Dialect Syntax (Edisyn) Workshop IX, Glasgow, March 22-23.

2018

• Maud Westendorp. ‘Information structure and morphological complexity in the wh-questions of three Norwegian dialects’. 11th Nordic Dialectologists Conference, Reykjavík, August 20-22.
• Maud Westendorp. ‘Development and variation of non-V2 order in Norwegian wh-questions’. Poster presented at 3rd Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology, Oslo, February 15. Winner poster prize.
• Jelke Bloem, Maud Westendorp and Marieke Olthof. ‘Synchronic variation and diachronic change in Dutch two-verb clusters’. Dutch Annual Linguistics Day “Grote Taaldag”, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 3.
• Maud Westendorp, Marieke Olthof and Jelke Bloem. ‘Language change in the Corpus Gesproken Nederlands: An apparent-time study of verb cluster order’. Poster presented at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 28, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 26.

2017

• Maud Westendorp. ‘Utvikling av og variasjon i ikke-V2 hv-spørsmål i norske dialekter’. Møte om norsk språk, Bergen, Norway, November 23.