Cognitive Summer Seminar 2012 at the Norwegian Academy of Science 
and Letters, conference organized by Norwegian Cognitive Linguistics Association 
(NORKOG) in cooperation with the CAS research group Time is Space: Unconscious Models 
and Conscious Acts.

Program:

• Mark Turner: Self and Other in Time and Space
• Sonja Erlenkamp: The use of complex blends in Norwegian Sign Language:
• grammatical roles and relations, action chain and SAP hierarchy
• Johanna Mesch and Eli Raanes: Joint attention through shared movements –
• analyzing deafblind signers’ expressions in dialogues
• Peer Christensen: Word Order in Nonverbal Representation of Events
• Thora Tenbrink and Olivier Le Guen: Spatial reference frames in language and
• gestures
• Tore Nesset: Cyclical vs linear time: Language, culture and biology
• Nina Gram Garmann: Variations on a theme
• Kristian Kristoffersen, Nina Gram Garmann and Hanne Gram Simonsen: Phonological patterns in Cri de Chat  syndrome
• Joanna Nykiel: The effect of phrasal complexity in ellipsis
• Julia Kuznetsova: We verbs really know you prefixes: case of semantic profiling
• Laura A. Janda: Radial Category Profiling of North Sámi Adpositions (joint work
• with Lene Antonsen and Berit Anne Bals Baal)
• Tuomas Huumo, Kersten Lehismets and Csenge Fekete: Verbs, Bipositions, and
• Force Dynamics: How force dynamic strength varies between Finnish adpositional
• constructions
• Thomas Egan: Subjectification and intersubjectification: a case study
• Anastasia Makarova: Diminutive nouns and verbs in one: Russian “hybrid” words
• from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
• Stephen Dickey: Temporal definiteness, referentiality and the Russian perfective
• Hanne Gram Simonsen, Marianne Lind, Inger Moen and Ingeborg Dalby:
• Processing of inflected verb forms in aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease
• Hans  Olav Enger: Vocabular Clarity and Faroese inflection
• Anna Endresen: A case study of non  prototypical allomorphy: Russian aspectual
• prefixes O  , OB  , and OBO 
• Tor Arne Haugen: Motivating the No Complement Restriction on prenominal
• adjectives