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<div class="moz-forward-container">Dear All, <br>
<br>
below you will find information on a Summer School (2 weeks) to be
held at Bamberg in July 2014, particularly aimed at graduate
students and PhD's.<br>
<br>
We very much regret the clash of dates with the Stockholm Summer
School on language documentation, but we could not change our
dates at short notice.<br>
Note, however, that this one is not a training course in language
documentation, but is primarily intended for people who have
already compiled data from a documentation setting, and are
interested in methodological approaches to variation.<br>
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Best wishes for the Christmas break, and for the New Year!<br>
<br>
Geoff<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><big><b>Summer School:</b></big><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><big><big><b>Documentary
Linguistics and Variationist Sociolinguistics</b></big></big><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><big><b>University of
Bamberg<br>
</b></big></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><big><b>30th June 2014 –
11th July 2014<br>
</b></big></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><big><b>see: bamling-research.de\dlvs<br>
<br>
</b></big><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Background and Aims<o:p></o:p></span></b><span
lang="EN-US"><br>
Documentary linguistics is faced with a steadily increasing
flow of language data on a rich cross-section of typologically
varied and generally under-described languages. And
increasingly, language documenters need to find methodologies
and techniques for dealing with the language-internal
variation inevitably present in their data. Documentary
linguists are currently exploring methodologies for annotating
and mining larger corpora, but they do not always have the
necessary background to enable them to best make sense out of
variant data. This summer school intends to bring specialists
from documentary linguistics together with variationist
sociolinguists with the intention of opening up avenues for a
fruitful exchange. <o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Set in the beautiful
medieval city of Bamberg in Bavaria, the summer school will
offer a series of seminars and workshops, where participants
receive state of the art tuition and also have an opportunity
to work on their own topics under supervision of experienced
instructors. Alongside more general lectures and seminars,
students will choose one of three regional workshops offering
in-depth coverage of specific regions and linguistic
phenomena: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(i) Oceania; (ii) East
Anatolia and neighbouring regions; (iii) Phonological
variation in World Englishes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
Formal registration will be available from February 1st. The
number of places available is restricted, and acceptance will
be on a first-come-first-served basis. <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> There will be a course
fee of 250 Euros which covers all refreshments and course
materials; courses are creditable on the ECTS-system (master's
level).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please direct general
inquiries to: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:hanna.thiele@uni-bamberg.de">hanna.thiele@uni-bamberg.de</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For inquiries regarding
accommodation options please contact: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de">admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Organizers: Geoffrey Haig,
Miriam Meyerhoff, Stefan Schnell, Ole Schützler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Bamberg
96045 Bamberg
Tel. ++49 (0)951 863 2490
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Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Bamberg
96045 Bamberg
Tel. ++49 (0)951 863 2490
Admin. ++49 (0)951 863 2491</pre>
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