28.607, Summer Schools: Historical Linguistics - With a Focus on Speech Acts and Sentence Types/Germany

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Subject: 28.607, Summer Schools: Historical Linguistics - With a Focus on Speech Acts and Sentence Types/Germany

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:27:57
From: Marco Coniglio [marco.coniglio at phil.uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Historical Linguistics - With a Focus on Speech Acts and Sentence Types/Germany

 

Historical Linguistics - With a Focus on Speech Acts and Sentence Types

Host Institution: Georg August Universität Göttingen
Website: http://www.shorttermprograms-goettingen.de

Dates: 24-Jul-2017 - 04-Aug-2017
Location: Göttingen, 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

Tuition Explanation: The number of participants is limited to 20. Participation is free of charge
for the selected candidates. Due to funding by the University of Göttingen the
Summer School will be able to offer travel grants for international
participants from cooperating institutions. For more information, see
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/555522.html. The travel grants are paid as
fixed country-specific travel allowances. The Summer School also provides free
accommodation in double rooms for the selected international participants from
cooperating institutions. All other individual costs related to the
participation in the summer school (entrance fees on excursions, food, etc.)
have to be covered by the participants themselves (or by their respective home
institutions).

Participation is also possible on a self-paying basis. Please note that an
application is also necessary in such a case.


Registration: 01-Feb-2017 to 28-Feb-2017

Contact Person: Katharina Jannasch
                Email: shorttermprograms at uni-goettingen.de

Apply by Email: shorttermprograms at 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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