LINGUIST List 14.1290

Tue May 6 2003

FYI: Digitized Texts, Generative Grammar

Editor for this issue: Renee Galvis <reneelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. S. Klein, FYI: Computer modelling of Propp and Levi-Strauss
2. h.zeijlstra, Generative Grammar Summer School

The rather hard to find revised and expanded French language version of 
 "Modelling Propp and Le'vi-Strauss in a Meta-symbolic Simulation System." 
 In Patterns in Oral Literature, edited by H. Jason & D. Segal, 
 World Anthropology Series, The Hague: Mouton, 1977, 
is now available for downloading at 

		http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sklein/

as a .pdf file, with a new Le'vi-Strauss model, a revised Propp model, 
and 60 new computer generated folktales. The full program is included, 
and is extensively commented with references to specific pages in 
V. Propp's <<Morphology of the Folktale>>, U of Texas Press, 1968. 
=========================================================================== 
Klein, S., Aeschliman, Applebaum, Balsisger, Curtis, Foster, Kalish, Kamin, 
 Lee & Price. 1976.
 	<Simulation d'hypothses miss par Propp et Le'vi-Strauss en 
	utilisant un system de simulation meta-symbolique.> 
	Informatique et Sciences Humaines, No. 28, pp. 63-133, Mars.

[Although published in 1976, it represents later work than the 1977 English
version.]
============================================================================

10th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar
Short Title: EGG

Date: 28-Jul-0200 - 08-Aug-2003
Location: Lublin, Poland, Poland
Contact: Hedde Zeijlstra
Contact Email: h.zeijlstrahum.uva.nl
Meeting URL: http://egg.auf.net


Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

Meeting Description:
10th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar

We are pleased to announce this year's Central European Summer School
in Generative Grammar, to be held in

Lublin, Poland
from July 28th - August 8th

Registration is taking place at

http://egg.auf.net

where more detailed information is available.

Deadline for application: May 20th

Students from former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe
can apply for financial support (covering travel, visa and/or
accommodation expenses). 10th Central European Summer School in
Generative Grammar

We are pleased to announce this year's Central European Summer School
in Generative Grammar, to be held in

Lublin, Poland
from July 28th - August 8th

Registration is taking place at

http://egg.auf.net

where more detailed information is available.

Deadline for application: May 20th

Students from former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe
can apply for financial support (covering travel, visa and/or
accommodation expenses).

There will be an introductory and an advanced track. The list of
courses is appended below.

Hedde Zeijlstra
on behalf of GLEE (Generative Linguistics in Eastern Europe)

Introductory
David Adger - Introduction to (Minimalist) syntax (2 weeks)
Ellie Boyadzhieva (wk 1) & Charles Reiss (wk 2) -
	Introduction to Language and mind
Haike Jacobs (Wk 1) & Martin Kramer (Wk 2) - Introduction to Phonology
Gillian Ramchand & Arnim von Stechow - Introduction to Semantics 
	(2 weeks)


Intermediate
John Bailyn - Case and Configuration in Slavic
John Bailyn - What, if anything, is the EPP?
Hagit Borer - The syntax of (referring) nominal expressions
Eugeniusz Cyran - CVCV
Haike Jacobs- Issues in Optimality Theory: Targeted constraints,
	Sympathy, Comparative Markedness and Opacity
Jonathan Kaye - t.b.a.
Martin Kramer - OT Approaches to Vowel Harmony
Andrew Nevins - Ergativity: splitting hairs
Andrew Nevins - Multiple introductions: precedence for syntacticians,
	dominance for phonologists
Oystein Nilsen - Grammar Logic
Charles Reiss - Phonological Theory and Phonological Acquisition
·	Hedde Zeijlstra �Euro�' The Semantics of Negative Concord

Research seminars
Jonathan Kaye - t.b.a.
Oystein Nilsen - Eliminating Positions
Gillian Ramchand - Erasing the Syntax/Semantics Interface: Evidence
	from Scottish Gaelic
Arnim von Stechow - Different approaches to the semantics of
	comparison
Hagit Borer - Aspect and Aktionsart