29.1195, Summer Schools: Variation and its limits from a diachronic perspective - 3. Summer School in Historical Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 29.1195, Summer Schools: Variation and its limits from a diachronic perspective - 3. Summer School in Historical Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:33:30
From: Esther Jahns [histling at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Variation and its limits from a diachronic perspective - 3. Summer School in Historical Syntax

 

Variation and its limits from a diachronic perspective - 3. Summer School in Historical Syntax

Host Institution: Universität Potsdam
Website: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/guvdds/summerschool/summer-school-2018.html

Dates: 27-Jun-2018 - 30-Jun-2018
Location: Potsdam, Germany

Focus: The main aim of SUM-UP is to bring together junior and senior researchers in the field of historical syntax in Germanic languages.
Minimum Education Level: BA


Special Qualifications:
The school will be open for international students of Germanic languages at advanced Master and PhD level.


Description:
This year’s summer school will start with a two-day course on the structure of
Yiddish by Neil G. Jacobs. Insights in this language that is labelled a
Germanic language, but shows influences from Semitic, Slavic and Romance
languages will provide the participants with valuable knowledge on the
influence of language contact on grammatical features and its limits.
The second part of the summer school will be a combination of talks given by
experts in the field and by advanced Master and PhD students working on
historical syntax of (a) Germanic language/s. This structure allows feedback
on the individual research for the junior researchers from both the experts
and from the fellow Masters and PhD candidates. 

This year's senior researchers are:
- Thórhallur Eythórsson, University of Iceland/ Iceland
- Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University/ U.S.
- Dagmar Haumann, University of Bergen/ Norway
- Neil G. Jacobs, Ohio State University/ U.S. 
- Svetlana Petrova, Universität Wuppertal/ Germany
- Joel Wallenberg, Newcastle University/ UK


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Language Families: Germanic

Tuition: 80 EUR

Tuition Explanation: A reduced fee of 45€ applies for participating in only one part of the summer
school (Yiddish course OR talks).


Registration: 12-Mar-2018 to 20-Apr-2018

Contact Person: Ulrike Demske
                Email: histling at uni-potsdam.de

Apply by Email: histling at uni-potsdam.de

Registration Instructions:
The number of junior researchers will be limited to 10. A higher number of
participants in the language structure course is possible. The language of the
summer school will be English.

If you are interested in giving a talk, please submit an abstract (max. 500
words excluding references) and a letter of motivation (max. 1 page).




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