Event tomorrow (Friday) after classes in the syntax room:
Björn Köhnlein has volunteered to hold a Q&A session about publishing in Linguistics. He has ample experience as an Associate Editor at the Linguistics journal Glossa and is happy to answer questions on how to publish in Linguistics journals. He can speak about issues such as how to evaluate possible topics for a paper, how to pick the right journal, how to frame an argument to make it appropriate for the journal of your choice, how the editorial process works, how to engage with reviews, and other related things.

A. Wellwood’s week 2 class on Psychosemantics will be in slot 3, i.e. 2pm, to avoid conflicts in its original slot 1.

independently of the EGG, there is a talk by Maša Bešlin (Georgetown University) tomorrow at 2 pm in room B2.51. Title and abstract are below.

Title: Beyond form and meaning: Investigating abstract morphology in language processing

Abstract: A prominent position in contemporary linguistic theory is that speakers’ knowledge of words extends beyond form and meaning to include abstract morphological representations. Whether such abstract representations are engaged during real-time language processing remains a central question in psycholinguistics. In this talk, I present a prospective MSCA project that addresses this question by exploiting a distinctive property of Slavic verbs: genuinely complex and only apparently complex words can be compared while closely matching semantic and phonological similarity. This makes it possible to disentangle the contribution of abstract morphology from that of form and meaning, overcoming methodological limitations that have constrained previous work on English and related languages. The project combines auditory priming experiments with pupillometry to examine both behavioral and physiological signatures of morphological processing. More broadly, it aims to foster a two-way exchange between theoretical morphology and psycholinguistics, drawing on linguistic theory to guide experimental research while using experimental findings to inform theories of morphological representation and processing. By presenting the project’s questions and methods, I also hope to introduce these approaches to the MU community and explore opportunities for collaboration on questions at the interface of morphological theory and language processing.

The course description is updated, and the pdfs are online.

Slides of his class are here.

Here’s the dining guide of the EGG running through the food places around the classrooms, grouped by cuisine or dietary preference and ordered by walking distance from the faculty.

The classroom building is covered by EDUROAM, which some of you may have access to through your home institution. There will also be a special access facility for the EGG.

Kick-off party on Monday evening at the Sborovna pub: here is a map taking you there from the classrooms (address: Botanická 1). We start at 6:30 pm.
Free drinks!
Watch out, they only take cash, no cards (for food and when the free drinks are done).

The handouts of Rita Manzini’s classes are now online on the class pages.