Summer School "Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition"

[Jean-Christophe Verstraete]

(Forwarded message; contact <dgfs_sommerschule at hu-berlin.de>)

DGfS Summer School “Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition”

August 12 – 30, 2013 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Early Bird registration ends on March 31, 2013!


We invite advanced students (Ph.D. or M.A. level) in linguistics and 
related fields to attend this 3-week Summer School in August 2013.

It is co-organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 
(DGfS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the 
Excellence Cluster 264 - TOPOI.

The event contains courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, 
anthropology and archeology, which look at language from the point of 
view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. 
The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, 
Europe and the USA.

The Summer School is of course also open to more advanced researchers 
who are interested in learning about language development. The language 
of instruction is English and German.


For further information see the summer school’s website:

<http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/>


Courses:

The origins and evolution of language (Maggie Tallerman)

Empirical approaches to the cultural evolution of language (Hannah Cornish)

Genes and language: from molecules to linguistic diversity (Dan Dediu & 
Sonja Vernes)

Emergence and development of writing systems (F. Kammerzell)

Empirical approaches to the diversity and disparity of languages 
(Michael Dunn)

Mathematical and Computational Models of Language Evolution (Gerhard Jäger)

Linguistics und Human Prehistory (Paul Heggarty)

Sign Languages: Evolution and Change (Markus Steinbach)

Diachronic change in four millenia: the language history of 
Egyptian-Coptic (Daniel Werning)

Approaches to Historical Morphology and Syntax (Alice C. Harris)

Efficiency and extravagance in morphosyntactic change (Martin Haspelmath)

Semantic Change (Dirk Geeraerts)

Indo-European linguistics revisited (Silvia Luraghi)

In search of stability in language contact. (Pieter Muysken)

Diachronic Phonology (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero & Silke Hamann)

The social foundation of language change (Daniel Schreier)

Sprachtheoretische und didaktische Aspekte des Schriftspracherwerbs 
(Christa Röber)

The acquisition of sign language: influences from modality and 
experience (Gary Morgan)

Theoretical and Empirical approaches to first language acquisition 
(Heike Behrens)

Language attrition and bilingual development (Monika Schmid)

Multimodal multilingualism: Gestures, second language acquisition, 
bilingualism (Marianne Gullberg)

Bilingualism and second language learning: Cognitive and 
neuropsychological perspectives (Janet van Hell)