LINGUIST List 28.3272
Wed Aug 02 2017
Summer Schools: 3rd Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language/Australia
Editor for this issue: Yue Chen <yuelinguistlist.org>
Date: 12-Jul-2017
From: Hannah Sarvasy <coedlevents
anu.edu.au>
Subject: 3rd Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language/Australia
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Website: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/education-and-outreach/train-with-us/summer-school-2017/
Dates: 27-Nov-2017 - 01-Dec-2017
Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
Focus: The CoEDL Summer Schools are the flagship educational series of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, open to students and researchers around the world. CoEDL Summer Schools draw on expertise across CoEDL's programs and nodes, other Australian linguistics departments, and our international partners to offer educational enrichment and catalyse new research collaborations. This year’s CoEDL Summer School, with a general Typology theme, will feature eleven themed courses, on the state-of-the-art in African and Tibeto-Burman linguistics, processing from a typological perspective, the interface between Australian archeology, genetics, and linguistics, and many more topics. Linguists of all backgrounds and interests are welcome.
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate
Description:
The 2017 Summer School program offers courses in three streams over four days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday). Each course consists of four 1.5 hour sessions over the four days.
On Wednesday there will also be half-day workshops on topics such as FLEX, PRAAT and ELAN, a panel discussion of open access publishing, and a session on unsolved and pressing questions in the language sciences.
Courses:
Martin Haspelmath - Language Universals
Sonia Cristofaro - Typological universals in diachronic perspective
Sabine Stoll - Language Acquisition and Typology
Damián Blasi & Balthasar Bickel - Quantitative Methods in Language Typology
Nick Evans, Peter Hiscock & others - Archaeology and Linguistics of Australia
Catherine Travis, James Grama & Simón González - Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century
Heather Kember, Karen Mulak & Alba Tuninetti - Processing Typology and 'Typologizing' Processing
Mengistu Amberber, Rosey Billington & Hannah Sarvasy - African Languages and Linguistics
Felicity Meakins & Francesco Gardani - Language Contact and Morphology
Marie-Eve Ritz - Tense, Aspect and Variation
Gwen Hyslop - Tibeto-Burman Languages in a Typological Perspective
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Typology
Tuition: 250 AUD
Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 04-Aug-2017
Support for travel, accommodation and partial registration.
Financial Aid Instructions:
CoEDL has some support for students and unwaged people to attend the summer school.
Registration: 01-Jul-2017 to 01-Sep-2017
Contact Person: Hannah Sarvasy
Email: coedlevents
anu.edu.au
Apply on the web: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/education-and-outreach/train-with-us/summer-school-2017/registration/
Registration Instructions:
Registration covers course selection and catering. Students and unwaged attendees have a discounted registration cost. Accommodation costs are available to select as part of your registration and include breakfast. You will also need to indicate any dietary needs. Please note that registrations will be accepted after 1st September until 20 November, but late fees will apply.
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