[Lingtyp] 25 LSA Summer Institute: 7 July – 8 August in Eugene, Oregon

[Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm]

Dear all,

I am posting this announcement on behalf of prof. Vsevolod Kapatsinski – please spread the word!

Best,
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm

The Linguistics Institute is the largest and longest-running summer school in linguistics, organized every two years under the auspices of the Linguistics Society of America. The next iteration will be held on July 7 – August 8, 2025, at the University of Oregon and will have a strong emphasis on linguistic typology, with about 90 courses spread over two terms of 2.5 weeks each, including

Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), Linguistic Typology in Evolutionary Perspective
Aoju Chen (Utrecht University), Prosodic development across languages
Sonia Cristofaro (Sorbonne University), Language typology and grammatical evolution: Explaining language universals in diachronic perspective
Don Daniels (University of Oregon), Papuan Languages
Scott Delancey (University of Oregon), The Trans-Himalayan/Sino-Tibetan Languages
Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) and Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University), Reconstructing Syntax
Simon J. Greenhill (University of Auckland), Language Phylogenies: Modelling the evolution of language
Carolina Grzech (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Henrik Bergqvist (University of Gothenburg), Interaction: A journey from the fringes to the core of linguistic science
Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon), Cognitive Mechanisms of Language Change
Seppo Kittilä (University of Helsinki) and Fernando Zúñiga (University of Bern), Grammatical Voice
Linda Konnerth (University of Bern), Grammar Writing
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (University of Stockholm) and Thanasis Georgakopoulos (Aristotle University of Thesssaloniki), Lexical Typology and Universals of Word Meaning
Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg), The Spread of World Languages: Features – Drivers – Effects
Natalia Levshina (Radboud University), Communicative Efficiency in Human Languages
Maryellen C. MacDonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Language Production and its (Psycho)linguistic Consequences
Dimitrios Meletis (University of Vienna), Writing systems and their use
Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara), Introduction to Language Documentation
Corrine Occhino (University of Texas) and Ryan Lepic (Gallaudet University), The Linguistics of Sign Languages
Jesus Olguin Martinez (Illinois State University) and Phillip Rogers (University of Pittsburgh), Advanced syntactic typology
Pavel Ozerov (University of Innsbruck), Information Structure in interaction, grammar, and typology
Thomas E. Payne (University of Oregon and SIL International), Grammatical description for language documentation
Terry Regier (University of California, Berkeley), Computational Semantic Typology
Shahar Shirtz (Arizona State University) and Jordan Douglas-Tavani (University of California, Santa Barbara), Typology, Contact, and Convergence: The Southern Region of the PNW Sprachbund
Andrea Sims and Maria Copot (The Ohio State University), Introduction to Quantitative Morphology: Questions, Methods, Models
Elena Smirnova (University of Neuchâtel), Diachronic Construction Grammar
Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh), Origins and Evolution of Language
Sabine Stoll (University of Zurich), Linguistic Diversity in Language Acquisition
Rosa Vallejos-Yopán (University of New Mexico), Language Contact in Language Shift Ecologies
Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) and Kathleen Currie Hall (University of British Columbia), The Message Shapes Phonology
Bodo Winter (University of Birmingham), Iconicity in Language
Roberto Zariquiey (PUCP), Ergativities

For more information about the institute, see here: https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

Student fellowships are available from the Linguistic Society of America (https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/fellowships.php).
Deadline for fellowship applications is December 9.


Also check out the exciting line-up of co-located conferences!
https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/co-located-conferences.php


Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University
Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”,
President-Elect of Societas Linguistica Europaea,
tamm at ling.su.se<mailto:tamm at ling.su.se>
http://www.ling.su.se/tamm








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