36.3688, Summer Schools: Winter School on Negation (India)

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Subject: 36.3688, Summer Schools: Winter School on Negation (India)

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Date: 28-Nov-2025
From: Usha Udaar [ushaudaar at iitk.ac.in]
Subject: Winter School on Negation


Winter School on Negation

Host Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Coordinating Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/negationwsiitk

Dates: 06-Feb-2026 - 08-Feb-2026
Location: Online mode, India

Minimum Education Level: MA, Ph.D. (language and linguistics)

Focus: Cross-linguistic view of Negation, Language Acquisition,
Computational and Psycholinguistic perspectives on negation, syntax
and semantics of negation.
Description:
Negation is a universal phenomenon found across languages, allowing
speakers of natural languages to deny, contradict, or reverse the
truth proposition. It manifests in varied ways cross-linguistically,
and has been studied extensively in the linguistics literature.
Despite its apparent simplicity, the phenomenon of negation continues
to interest linguists and is discussed at the cross-section of several
interfaces including syntax-semantics, syntax-discourse,
syntax-processing, using the methodological tools from formal
generative theory, typological analyses, experimental work,
psycholinguistic tools and computational models.
In the generative literature, negation is a well-known diagnostic to
understand the clause structure revealing information about the tense,
aspect and agreement projections. Other related phenomena like
Negative polarity items, negative concord and double negation are
topics of interesting studies that offer insights into scope and
operator theory. Thus, the topic of negation holds much promise for
students of linguistics as it does not merely mark contradiction but
offers an understanding of the architecture of grammar.  Studying
negations as a phenomenon provides researchers a window into the
mechanisms of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, providing
opportunities to understand how languages vary and change, and how
cognitive processes help shape the interpretation of meaning.
The Winter School on Negation organised by IIT Kanpur in association
with IIT Delhi from 06-08, February 2026 aims to introduce graduate
students of linguistics to relevant topics in negation like sentential
negation and negative concord, work on Negative Polarity Items.
We plan to host comprehensive talks on topics including-
Typological overview of patterns of negation and related phenomena.
The phenomena of Negative Concord, Negative Polarity Items, Scope in
Negation
Language acquisition of negation.
Negation as a phenomenon in psycholinguistic research

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Registration Open until 01-Feb-2026

Apply by Email: negation.ws.iitk at gmail.com
Apply on the web: https://sites.google.com/view/negationwsiitk

Registration Instructions:
Apply through the Registration link on
https://sites.google.com/view/negationwsiitk/home?authuser=0



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