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Thu Feb 21 2019

Summer Schools: Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations/Germany

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Date: 15-Feb-2019
From: Esther Jahns <esther.jahnsuni-potsdam.de>
Subject: Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations/Germany
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Host Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Coordinating Institution: Universität Potsdam
Website: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/dspdg/projekte/rueg.html

Dates: 12-Aug-2019 - 16-Aug-2019
Location: Berlin, Germany

Focus: The Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach” (RUEG) is organizing a Summer School for PhD students. The summer school will bring together leading researchers and PhD students interested in language use and language structure in contact settings.
Minimum Education Level: PhD

Description:
Classes will address topics of language contact, language and migration, register variation, language acquisition and multilingualism. Each class will give an overview of milestones in the field and discuss current research topics. In addition, the school will include a seminar on corpus linguistics with a focus on multilingual corpora.
The language of the summer school will be English.

Classes and teachers:
Register Variation: Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University;
Language and Migration: Cristina M.M. Flores, Universidade do Minho;
Language Acquisition: Natalia Gagarina, Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, & Christoph Schroeder, University of Potsdam;
Corpus Linguistics: Hagen Hirschmann, Humboldt University, Berlin;
Language Contact: Yaron Matras, University of Manchester;
Multilingualism: Ad Backus, Tilburg University (to be confirmed)

Each participant may attend 3 of the 6 offered classes.

The Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach” (FOR 2537) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project number: 394821310
Tuition: 100 EUR
Registration: 18-Feb-2019 to 01-May-2019
Contact Person: Esther Jahns
                Email: esther.jahnsuni-potsdam.de

Apply by Email: heike.wiesehu-berlin.de

Registration Instructions:
For application, please send a letter of motivation, a short abstract of your PhD project (max. 500 words), and a CV to heike.wiesehu-berlin.de In the letter of motivation, please indicate at least 4 classes which interest you. Each participant may attend 3 of the 6 offered classes. Deadline for application is May 1st, 2019. A notification of acceptance will be sent by May 31st, 2019.


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