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
| Time | Semantics / Pragmatics | Syntax / Morphology | Visual Communication | Foundations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Binding 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 – 11.00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Socially 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 – 14.00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Merge 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 – 16.00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | The 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
| Time | Semantics / Pragmatics | Syntax / Morphology | Visual Communication | Foundations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Formal 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 – 11.00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Computational 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 – 14.00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | What 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 – 16.00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Comparison 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.
