Schedule

!! On the first day, August 12th, registration will be open from 08:30 throughout the day. Before the first classes start, there will be a short opening in the room 3.103 at 09:00.

!! On the first day of the summer school, August 12th, there will be a reception with drinks and snacks at the Historische Sternwarte (Geismar Landstr. 11, 37083 Göttingen) at 19:00. Everyone is cordially invited.

Week 1


Monday – Friday, August 12 – 16
TimeSemantics / PragmaticsSyntax / MorphologyVisual CommunicationFoundations
09.00 – 10.30Binding
Rajesh Bhatt
3.103
Inherent vs. structural case, KPs and the implementation of dependent case
Thomas McFadden
3.104
Gesture, Language and Cognition
Sotaro Kita
3.105
Visible Meaning
Jeremy Kuhn
3.101
10.30 – 11.00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
11.00 – 12.30Socially Relevant Meaning
Elin McCready
3.103
Features in Grammar
Hedde Zeijlstra
3.104
Iconicity in Communication
Aleksandra Ćwiek
3.105
Introduction to Compositional Semantics
Thomas Ede Zimmermann
3.101
12.30 – 14.00LunchLunchLunchLunch
14.00 – 15.30Merge and Derivation Layering
Jan-Wouter Zwart
3.104
Mismatches in the interface between prosody, syntax and information structure
Caroline Féry
3.105
Sign Language Semantics / Pragmatics
Kathryn Davidson
3.103
Introduction to Distributed Morphology
Andrew Murphy
3.101
15.30 – 16.00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
16.00 – 17.30The Architecture of Grammar
Uli Sauerland
3.104
Movement, Locality, and Spell-out
Željko Bošković
3.103
The Semantics of Emojis
Patrick Georg Grosz
3.105
Introduction to Generative Syntax
Theresa Biberauer
3.101

!! There will be student poster sessions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 17:45-18:45 in rooms 3.102 and 3.103. Please find the book of abstracts here.

Week 2


Monday – Friday, August 19 – 23
TimeSemantics / PragmaticsSyntax / MorphologyVisual CommunicationFoundations
09.00 – 10.30Formal Pragmatics
Benjamin Spector
3.104
Locality: Domains and intervention
Stefan Keine
3.103
The Interaction of Prosody and Gesture
Frank Kügler
3.105
Visible Meaning
Jeremy Kuhn
3.101
10.30 – 11.00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
11.00 – 12.30Computational Semantics in the Era of Large Language Models
Alessandro Lenci
3.104
Parameters in Morphosyntax
Ümit Atlamaz
3.103
How Meaning Emerges in Gestures. A cognitive-semiotic approach
Silva Ladewig
3.105
Introduction to Compositional Semantics
Thomas Ede Zimmermann
3.101
12.30 – 14.00LunchLunchLunchLunch
14.00 – 15.30What it means to be true
Magdalena Kaufmann
3.103
The Linguistic Cycle
Elly van Gelderen
3.105
Sign Language Typology
Roland Pfau
3.104
Nanosyntax Foundations and Form-Meaning Mismatches
Karen De Clercq
3.101
15.30 – 16.00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
16.00 – 17.30Comparison
Roumyana Pancheva
3.103
Ellipsis in Hungarian
Anikó Lipták
3.104
Multimodal Signal Processing
Wim Pouw
3.105
Introduction to Generative Syntax
Theresa Biberauer
3.101

!! There will be student poster sessions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 17:45-18:45 in rooms 3.102 and 3.103. Please find the book of abstracts here.