LINGUIST List 21.5137 Sat Dec 18 2010 Confs: General Linguistics/Belgium Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Bert Cornillie , LOT Summer School 2011 Message 1: LOT Summer School 2011 Date: 16-Dec-2010 From: Bert Cornillie <bert.cornilliearts.kuleuven.be> Subject: LOT Summer School 2011 E-mail this message to a friend LOT Summer School 2011 Short Title: LOT 2011 Date: 13-Jun-2011 - 24-Jun-2011 Location: Leuven, Belgium Contact: Bert Cornillie Contact Email: lotschoolarts.kuleuven.be Meeting URL: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/lotschool/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: The annual Summer School of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) provides introductory and advanced graduate training in Linguistics. It offers 18 courses in different domains and 6 Master classes, spread over two weeks. During the Master Classes students will have the opportunity to discuss their project with experts in their research field. They are open for PhD students only. There is a limit of 12 participants per master class. The courses of the Summer School are open for external students (Fee = 175 euros for one week, 300 euros for 2 weeks) and free for all PhD- researchers and second year research master students who are affiliated with one of the eight LOT Institutes. Each course is two hours every day for five days, and can be taken for partial credit (without paper) or full credit (with submission of a paper after the course). Please check our website for further details. Week 1 (13-17 June 2011) Syntax: Liliane Haegeman (Gent) Psycholinguistics: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña (Santiago de Compostela) Statistics: Dirk Speelman (Leuven) Language evolution: Bart de Boer (University of Amsterdam) Neurolinguistics: Laurie Stowe (Groningen) Contrastive Linguistics: Volker Gast (Jena) Philogenetics: Loretta O'Connor (Radboud, Nijmegen) Typology: Martin Haspelmath (MPI EVA Leipzig) Language Use: Kurt Feyaerts (Leuven) Week 2 (20-24 June 2011) Semantics: Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford/Konstanz) Phonology/Phonetics: Marc van Oostendorp (Leiden) Computational linguistics: Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg) Bilingualism: Ad Backus (Tilburg) Sociolinguistics: James Walker (York University, Canada) Language & Literature: Nigel Fabb (Strathclyde) Historical Linguistics: Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) Language Acquisition: Annick De Houwer (Erfurt) Syntax-semantics interface: Lisa Cheng (Leiden) Other Activities In each week of the Summer School, there will be a welcoming reception, a poster session, an invited evening lecture and a restaurant dinner. The venue also offers several leisure and sporting facilities. During the weekend in the middle of the Summer School, there will be a social program for the participants registered for both weeks. New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.