Summer School Models of Language Variation and Change (Marburg University, 08/07-/08/21, 2009)

[jfleischer at access.unizh.ch]

Announcement: Summer School Models of Language Variation and Change / 
Modelle von Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel (Marburg University, 
08/07-/08/21, 2009)


The Promotionskolleg für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Institut 
für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft of Marburg University organize a 
summer school devoted to Models of Language Variation and Change / Modelle 
von Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel that takes place August 7th - August 
21st, 2009 (directed by Juerg Fleischer and Richard Wiese). The summer 
school is focused on problems of language change and language variation, 
especially their role in developing theoretical models. The summer school is 
addressed to doctoral students who are working on problems of language 
change and/or language variation on any linguistic subfield in any 
language(s).
Teaching languages will be English and German. Participants are expected to 
take three from six courses and to present their dissertation project in one 
of them. To prepare for the summer school participants will be sent a 
reading list before the beginning. Participation in the courses and the 
presentation will be confirmed and certified with 8 ECTS points.


The following courses will be held:

- Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam) / Silke Hamann 
(Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Multi-level bidirectional 
connections

- Damaris Nübling (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Zwischen 
konservativ und innovativ: Dialektmorphologie

- Guido Seiler (University of Manchester): Syntax in Space

- Sten Vikner (University of Aarhus): Generative Models of Syntactic 
Variation

- Horst Simon (King’s College London): Historical Pragmatics

- Walter Bisang (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Linguistic typology 
and grammaticalization – the perspective of language contact


Doctoral students interested in participating are invited to apply by 
sending a short description of their dissertation project and a letter 
detailing their motivation until February 28th, 2009. The number of 
participant is limited to 40. Participation fee is EUR 250. For further 
information:


www.summerschool-marburg.de

and

info at summerschool-marburg.de
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