37.498, Summer Schools: 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics / CreteLing2026 (Greece)
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Subject: 37.498, Summer Schools: 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics / CreteLing2026 (Greece)
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Date: 05-Feb-2026
From: Vina Tsakali [creteling at gmail.com]
Subject: 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics / CreteLing2026
7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics / CreteLing2026
Host Institution: University of Crete
Website: https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl26/
Dates: 18-Jul-2026 - 31-Jul-2026
Location: Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
Minimum Education Level: University students of any level.
Focus: CreteLing focuses on theoretical linguistics, experimental
linguistics and current trends in linguistics and related fields (e.g.
computer science, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, language and
music etc.). The program includes introductory courses and advanced
seminars and is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students,
researchers and faculty members.
Description:
The Division of Linguistics at the University of Crete invites
everybody interested in linguistics to apply to the 7th Summer School
in Linguistics in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. The school will take place
from July 18 to July 31, 2026 and there will be introductory,
intermediate and advanced courses in a number of linguistic subfields:
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language
acquisition, neurolinguistics, language evolution, philosophy of
language, historical linguistics, computational linguistics and LLMs,
language and music and superlinguistics.
There will also be a workshop titled LINGUISTIC THEORY AT THE AGE OF
LLMs: A DIALOGUE, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 (organized by Danny Fox,
MIT & Yosef Grodzinsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
More information about the workshop can be found on the CreteLing2026
website (https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl26/events.php).
There will be three poster sessions (on Sunday, July 19, Thursday,
July 23 and Wednesday, July 29) in which CreteLing participants will
be given the opportunity to present their work.
The instructors in CreteLing2026 are:
Adam Albright, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete
Athulya Aravind, Yale University
Ümit Atlamaz, Boğaziçi University
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jonathan Bobaljik, Harvard University
Eulàlia Bonet, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Guglielmo Cinque, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Cleo Condoravdi, Stanford University
Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University
Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Roman Feiman, Brown University
Kai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward Flemming, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Danny Fox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Frederick Bailyn, Stony Brook University
Yosef Grodzinsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maria Teresa Guasti, University of Milano-Bicocca
Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
Sabine Iatridou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stefan Keine, University of California Los Angeles
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
Winfried Lechner, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Karen Lewis, Barnard College, Columbia University
Tal Linzen, New York University
Ora Matushansky, SFL (CNRS/Université Paris 8)
Shigeru Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrea Moro, Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia and the Scuola
Normale Superiore
Roumyana Pancheva, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Portner, Georgetown University
Douglas Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia
Josep Quer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Norvin Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz
Philippe Schlenker, École Normale Supérieure Paris
Yael Sharvit, University of California, Los Angeles
Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sergei Tatevosov, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Arhonto Terzi, University of Patras
Michael Wagner, McGill University
Alex Warstadt, University of California
Colin Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
Hedde Zeijlstra, University of Göttingen
Co-directors
Sabine Iatridou (iatridou at mit.edu)
Vina Tsakali (tsakali at uoc.gr)
Organizing Committee
Sabine Iatridou (iatridou at mit.edu)
Ioanna Kappa (kappa at uoc.gr)
Despina Oikonomou (despina.oikonomou at uoc.gr)
Vina Tsakali (tsakali at uoc.gr)
Administrative officers
Mary Kaniadaki & Marina Mastrokosta (creteling.ao at gmail.com)
For any questions regarding admissions, please write to
creteling.admissions at gmail.com (Despina Oikonomou)
For any questions regarding advising with courses, please write to
creteling.advising at gmail.com (Sabine Iatridou)
For information regarding visas, travelling and any other practical
issues, please write to creteling.ao at gmail.com (Mary Kaniadaki and
Marina Mastrokosta)
For any additional information and inquiries, please write to
creteling at gmail.com (Sabine Iatridou and Vina Tsakali)
You can also follow the activities of CreteLing on social media.
We are happy to announce that we have received financial support from
the Van Riemsdijk Foundation to offer a small number of fellowships.
Van Riemsdijk Foundation fellowships will be based on merit (based on
the applicant's CV and reference letter) and will be equally
distributed among undergraduate and graduate students.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Linguistic Theories
Registration: 03-Feb-2026 to 08-May-2026
Contact Person: Mary Kaniadaki & Marina Mastrokosta
Email: creteling.ao at gmail.com
Apply on the web:
https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl26/application.php
Registration Instructions:
Everyone interested in attending CreteLing needs to apply to the
school by submitting the online application form, uploading their CV
(in pdf format) and, if a student, providing the name of a referee.
Faculty (active or retired) and PostDocs need to fill in the online
application form and submit a CV. No letter of reference is required.
Students (undergraduate and graduate) and independent scholars/other
applying to CreteLing2026 will need to:
a) fill in the online application form,
b) upload a short CV in PDF format (including information regarding
the linguistics courses they have taken),
c) ask their referee/supervisor/instructor to send a reference letter
to creteling.admissions at gmail.com. Please make sure your referee
submits the letter as soon as possible. Your referee will not receive
a prompt from us. Without the reference letter you cannot be admitted
to the school if you are applying for the first time and you cannot be
considered for a Van Riemsdijk Foundation grant, even if you are a
returner.
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