26.2116, Summer Schools: Spirit: Summer School on Negation / Göttingen, Germany

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Subject: 26.2116, Summer Schools: Spirit: Summer School on Negation / Göttingen, Germany

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:45:30
From: Hedde Zeijlstra [hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Spirit: Summer School on Negation / Göttingen, Germany

 Spirit: Summer School on Negation / Göttingen, Germany

Dates: 14-Sep-2015 - 17-Sep-2015
Location: Göttingen, Germany

Focus: Linguistics in Göttingen (LinG) proudly announces a four-day summer school on negation, held in the surroundings of Göttingen. During this summer school, four tutorials (1,5 hour per day each) will be held, featuring four well-known teachers. In addition, there will be discussion seminars, sessions for student presentations and evening lectures (by, a.o. Markus Steinbach and Hedde Zeijlstra).

Minimum Education Level: MA

Special Qualifications:
The school is intended for 20-25 PhD students and postdocs, working on, or interested in the topic.

Description:
Teachers and classes:

- Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford) – Semantics of Negation and Negative Changes

- Roland Pfau (Amsterdam) – Negation in Sign Language

- Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt) – Syntax and Cross-Linguistic Variation of Negation

- Rosalind Thornton (Melbourne) – Acquisition and Other Psycholinguistic Aspects of Negation

The school will be followed by by an international workshop on negation where every school participant is invited to hold a (poster) presentation. 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                      Psycholinguistics
                      Semantics
                      Syntax

Tuition: 0 EUR

Tuition Explanation: The school has no fee, and all lodging and meals will be provided for free as well. Traveling costs will in principle not be reimbursed, though exceptions based on the participants’ backgrounds are possible.

Registration: 21-Apr-2015 to 01-Jun-2015

Contact Person: Hedde Zeijlstra
                Email: hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de

Apply by Email: hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de

Registration Instructions:
Interested? Send an email to hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de by June 1 with a short description of your research interests and a short motivation why you would want to attend the school Together this should be no more than 300 words.



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