LINGUIST List 28.607
Wed Feb 01 2017
Summer Schools: Historical Linguistics - With a Focus on Speech Acts and Sentence Types/Germany
Editor for this issue: Yue Chen <yuelinguistlist.org>
Date: 01-Feb-2017
From: Marco Coniglio <marco.coniglio
phil.uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: Historical Linguistics - With a Focus on Speech Acts and Sentence Types/Germany
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Website: http://www.shorttermprograms-goettingen.de
Dates: 24-Jul-2017 - 04-Aug-2017
Location: Gttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Focus: The International Summer School will welcome up to 20 advanced international students working on (or interested in) diachronic aspects of grammar and semantics/pragmatics, with a special focus on the interfaces between morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics. Participants should have a background in diachronic syntax and/or semantics/pragmatics, preferably of Romance and Germanic languages. Organizers: Marco Coniglio, Anke Holler, Guido Mensching
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum
Description:
We offer three main theoretical courses, a two-week course on linguistic methods, a practical activity, and poster presentations by students:
- Speech acts in synchrony and diachrony (Regine Eckardt)
- Sentence types, variation and change (Eva-Maria Remberger)
- Diachrony and language acquisition (Marit Westergaard)
- Corpus methods in diachronic linguistics (Anthony Kroch, Emanuela Sanfelici & Beatrice Santorini)
- Practical activity: corpus study on a special topic of historical linguistics (Olga Kellert & Guido Mensching)
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Language Families: Romance
Registration: 01-Feb-2017 to 10-Mar-2017
Contact Person: Katharina Jannasch
Email: shorttermprograms
uni-goettingen.de
Apply by Email: shorttermprograms
uni-goettingen.de
Apply on the web: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/555484.html
Registration Instructions:
This Summer School is open to 20 participants. The Summer School addresses advanced BA, MA and beginning PhD students working on, or interested in the topic. Participants will be chosen based on their submitted CV and their letters of motivation. For an application, please submit: - a CV (one page including a list of publications), - a short letter of motivation - a short abstract of the poster presentation (max. 200 words).
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