6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics/CreteLing2024

Host Institution: University of Crete
Website: https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl24/

Dates: 13-Jul-2024 - 26-Jul-2024
Location: Rethymno, Crete

Focus: Theoretical and experimental linguistics.
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum

Description:
The Division of Linguistics at the University of Crete invites undergraduate and graduate students interested in linguistics to apply to the 6th Summer School in Linguistics in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. The school will take place from July 13 to July 26, 2024 and there will be introductory, intermediate and advanced courses in a number of linguistic subfields: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Altaic languages, first and second language acquisition, neurolinguistics, language change, psycholinguistics and superlinguistics.

There will also be two workshops:
a) TRACING LANGUAGE HISTORY WITH TOOLS AND METHODS INSPIRED BY EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, on Wednesday, July 17 (organized by Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH), and
b) PRONOMINAL COMPETITION IN GRAMMAR AND PROCESSING, on Wednesday, July 24 (organized by Brian Dillon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Ivy Sichel, University of California, Santa Cruz).
More information about the workshops can be found on the CreteLing2024 website.
The application form is available online via the school’s website (https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl24/application.php) from February, 1 2024 until May, 8 2024. Note that there is an early and a late application process corresponding to different tuition fees, so please consult our website for more information.
CreteLing participants are invited to present their work in the CreteLing Conference during the school. There will be three poster sessions (on Sunday, July 14, Thursday, July 18 and Monday, July 22).

The instructors in CreteLing2024 are:
Adam Albright, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS & HU Berlin
Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete & IMS-FORTH
Athulya Aravind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ümit Atlamaz, Boğaziçi University
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Pavel Caha, Masaryk U. Czech Republic
Guglielmo Cinque, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Cleo Condoravdi, Stanford University
Brian Dillon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Roman Feiman, Brown University
Kai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Goldstein, University of California, Los Angeles
Yosef Grodzinsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
Sabine Iatridou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tania Ionin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University
Winfried Lechner, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Shigeru Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ora Matushansky, SFL (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Paris 8)
Roumyana Pancheva, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pritty Patel-Grosz, University of Oslo
Douglas Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia
Ezer Rasin Tel Aviv University
Philippe Schlenker, École Normale Supérieure Paris
Yael Sharvit, University of California, Los Angeles
Ivy Sichel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sergei Tatevosov, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Lyn Tieu, University of Toronto
Raffaella Zanuttini, Yale University

For any questions regarding admissions, please write to [email protected] (Despina Oikonomou)

For any questions regarding advising with courses, please write to [email protected] (Sabine Iatridou)

For information regarding travelling and any other practical issues, please write to [email protected] (Marianna Kabouroudi)

For any additional information and inquiries, please write to [email protected] (Sabine Iatridou and Vina Tsakali)

Tuition: EURO
Tuition Explanation: Tuition fees for both weeks of the summer school are: - 400 euros for early student applicants - 500 euros for faculty members and late student applicants - 600 euros for late faculty applicants.
Students of the University of Crete do not pay tuition fees.
Retired faculty (from any university) do not pay tuition fees, in recognition of their contribution to the field.

A number of grants will be available for students. Grants will be based on merit (based on the applicant's CV and reference letter) and will be equally distributed among undergraduate and graduate students.

Financial Aid Instructions:
Reference letter must be submitted by the deadline. Without it you cannot be admitted to the school.

Registration: 20-Apr-2024 to 15-Jun-2024

Contact Person: Vina Tsakali
Email: [email protected]

Registration Instructions:
I) Faculty (active or retired) and PostDocs need to fill in the online application form and submit a CV. No letter of reference is required.
II) Students (undergraduate and graduate) and independent scholars/other applying to CreteLing2024 will need to:
a) fill in the online application form,
b) upload a short CV in PDF format (including information regarding the linguistics courses they have taken),
c) ask their referee/supervisor/instructor to send a reference letter to [email protected].
If we do not receive a letter of reference, your application is not complete, so please make sure you stay in touch with your referee to make sure the letter is submitted.