Norvin spent three weeks teaching introductory syntax in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the [New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI)](http://www.nyi.spb.ru/genInfo/).
He also spent a weekend teaching and learning Wampanoag at the third annual
[Wôpanâak immersion camp](http://www.wlrp.org/Events.html) (at which only Wampanoag is spoken).
And he went to Budapest for the [Minimalist Approaches to Syntactic Locality (MASL)](http://ny01.nytud.hu/~suranyi/masl/) conference, where he gave a talk about Improper Movement and tough-movement
His other project over the summer was finishing his book, *Uttering Trees*,
which is scheduled to come out as an LI Monograph in 2010.