Summer School Announcement: DGfS Summer School - Language Development: Evolution, Change, Aquisition/ Berlin, Germany

Host Institution:	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
Coordinating Institution:	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Website	http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/
Dates:	12-Aug-2013 to 30-Aug-2013
Location:	Berlin, Germany
Focus:	Registration is open now. The Summer School offers courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, anthropology and archaeology, which look at language from the point of view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, Europe and the USA. The summer school is of course also open to more advanced scientists who are interested in learning about language development. Language of instruction is English and German.
Minimum Education Level:	No Minimum
Additional Qualifications:
Full Summer School Description:	We invite advanced students (M.A. or Ph.D. level) in Linguistics and related fields to attend this 3-week event in August 2013. It is co-organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the Excellence Cluster 264 - TOPOI. The Summer School offers courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, anthropology and archeology, which look at language from the point of view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, Europe and the USA. The summer school is of course also open to more advanced scientists who are interested in learning about language development. Language of instruction is English and German.
Course Listings:	Paul Heggarty Linguistics und Human Prehistory Maggie Tallerman The origins and evolution of language Hannah Cornish Empirical approaches to the cultural evolution of language Dan Dediu & Sonja Vernes Genes and language: from molecules to linguistic diversity F. Kammerzell Emergence and development of writing systems Michael Dunn Empirical approaches to the diversity and disparity of languages Gerhard Jäger Mathematical and Computational Models of Language Evolution Markus Steinbach Sign Languages: Evolution and Change Daniel Werning Diachronic change in four millenia: the language history of Egyptian-Coptic Alice C. Harris Approaches to Historical Morphology and Syntax Martin Haspelmath Efficiency and extravagance in morphosyntactic change Dirk Geeraerts Semantic Change Silvia Luraghi Indo-European linguistics revisited Pieter Muysken In search of stability in language contact Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero & Silke Hamann Diachronic Phonology Daniel Schreier The social foundation of language change Christa Röber Sprachtheoretische und didaktische Aspekte des Schriftspracherwerbs Gary Morgan The acquisition of sign language: influences from modality and experience Heike Behrens Theoretical and Empirical approaches to first language acquisition Monika Schmid Language attrition and bilingual development Marianne Gullberg Multimodal multilingualism: Gestures, second language acquisition, bilingualism Janet van Hell Bilingualism and second language learning: Cognitive and neuropsychological perspectives
Linguistic Subfield:	General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Subject Language:	English, German
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Tuition:	(EUR)
Registration Dates:	1-Feb-2013 to 1-Aug-2013
Contact person information:	Lilli Janotte Email:dgfs_sommerschule@hu-berlin.de
Apply by email:	dgfs_sommerschule@hu-berlin.de
Apply online:	http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/pdf/registration_form.pdf
Registration Instructions:	Please see application URL to download application. - You can register for up to three courses. See course schedule to make sure that they don't overlap. - Please supply a list of three alternative courses in the event that all places in your chosen course are taken. - The number of participants for each course is limited. The earliest registrations receive priority.

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